3. A Korhite of the Levitical family of Ebiasaph, sec- ond son of Jleshelemiah, and one of the gate-keepers to the taljernacle or Temple (1 Chron. xxvi, 2). B.C. 1014.
Jedi'dah (Heb. Yedidak', n^-^^"^, beloved; Septuag. 'lECcica ; Josephus 'IiStj, A nt. xi, 4, 1 ), daughter of Adai- ah of Boskath and mother of king Josiah, consequently wife of king Amon, whom she appears to liave survived (2 Kings xxii, 1). Her character may be inferred from the piety of her son. B.C. 648-639.
Jedidi'ah (Heb. Yedideyah', •17'7'^'7% beloved by Jehovah ; Sept. 'Itcica), the name specially given by the Lord to SoLOJiox (q. v.) at his birth, through Nathan, in token of the divine favor purposed towards him (2 Sam. xii. 25).
Jedithun. See Jedutiiun.
Jedna ('Ii(Jra), a town mentioned by Eusebius and Jerome {Onomast. s. v.) as lying " in the desert, six miles from Eleutheropolis towards Hebron," precisely in which location stands the modern village Idhna (Robinson, Re- searches, ii, 404).
Jed'uthun (Hebrew Yeduthin', ■jiinil'i;! or '(iimi ; also "(ir"!-!^, Yedithun', in 1 Chron. xvi, 38; Neh. xi, 17; Psa. XXX and Ixxvii, titles; lauder ; Sept. 'Ui^ovv, but 'Icu3'aii' in 1 Chron. ix, 16), a Levite of Merari's fami- ly, and one of the four great masters of the Temple music appointed by David (1 Chron. xvi,'41, 42 ; xxv, 1, etc.). B.C. 1014. From a comparison of 1 Chron. xv, 17, 19, ;v'ith xvi, 41, 42; xxv, 1, 3, 6: 2 Chron. xxxv, 15, some infer that he was iilentical with Ethan (q. v.). In 2 Chron. xxxv, 15, he bears the title of "the king's seer." His sons sometimes appear as exercising the same office (1 Chron. xxv, 1, 3), at others as door-keepers of the sacred edittce (1 Chron. xvi, 42). His name is also put for his descendants (Jeduthunites, "sons of Jeduthun"), who occur later as singers and plavers on instruments (2 Chron. xxxv, 15 ; Neh. xi, 17). In the latter signiHca- tion It occurs in the superscriptions to Psa. xxxix, Ixii, Ixxvii; but Aben-Ezra supposes it to denote here a spe- cies of song, and Jarchi a musical instrument. The form of the phrase CWi;! hv, " upon Jeduthun") fa- vors the latter intorjirctation (Gesenius, Thes. Ileb. p. 569), indicating a kind of instrumental music, or per- haps a style or tune of performance (Ewald. Ileb. Poesie, p. 1/6) invented or introduced bv Jeduthun; a conclu- sion strengthened by finding a phrase indicative of au- thorship CWsn^!:, "to Jeduthun," i. e. composed by him), ascribed in a simikr connection (Psa. xxxix, ti- tle), since he is elsewhere recognised as an inspired character (2 Chron. xxxv, 15). See Musician.
Jeejeebhoy, Sir Jamsetjee, a Parsee merchant prince and great philanthropist, who was born of poor parents at Bombay, July 15, 1783, and at the age of twenty had already amassed a fortune which secured him the universal acknowledgment as the "first mer- chant in the East," spent a good portion of his fortune in the endo^vment of schools and hospitals. From 1822 to 1858 he is reported to have spent " upwards of a quar- ter of a million pounds sterling in founding, endowing, or supporting undertakings of a purely benevolent char- acter;" but what is more noteworthy still is that this Parsee merchant by no means contined his charitable efforts to his own confession : Christian, Hindu, and Mussulman also shared the benefits of his magnanimous acts. In 1857 queen Victoria conferred on liim the honor of knighthood — the first occasion on which that dignity was bestowed on an Eastern. He died April 15, 1859. See Chambers, Cyclop, s. v.
Jee'li ('ItJjXi V. r. 'IfiijXti), a corrupt Grsecized form (1 Esd. V. 33) of the Heb. name (Ezra ii, 56) Jaalaii (q-v.).
Jee'lus ('lajXoc V. r. 'l£»/X), a Grsecized form (1 Esd. viii, 92) of the Heb. name (Ezra x, 2) Jeiiiel (q. v.).
Jee'zer (Hebrew le'zer, ^TS'^X, abridged for Abie- zer; Sept. 'A^dc,io), a son of Gilead of Manasseh (Numb, xxvi, 30) ; elsewhere (Josh, xvii, 2, etc.) called Abiezer (q. v.). The patronymic Jeezeuites ("^"'.IS'^N, Heb. lezeri', Sept. 'A\;(£^fpi) is in like manner applied to his descendants (Numb, xxvi, 30), elsewhere called Abiez- RiTES (Judg. vi, 11, etc.).
Jee'zerite (Numb, xxvi, 30). See Jeezer.
JeflFery, John, an English theologian, was bom at Ipswich in 1647. He studied at Catharine Hall, Cam- bridge, entered the Church, and was appointed rector of Dennington, Suffolk ; then of a parish in Norwich. His exemplary conduct, sound teachings, and great eru- dition rendered him very popular. In 1687 he obtained the livings of Kirton and Falkenham, and in 1694, Til- lotson, with whom he was intimately acquainted, made him archdeacon of Norwich. He died in 1720. Jeffery was much opposed to religious controversies, holding that tliey generated " more heat than light." He pub- lished Sir Thomas Browne's Chi-istian Morals; Moi-a\ and Relif/ious Aphorisms, taken from Dr. Wichcote's pa- pers. A complete collection of his own Sei-mons owl Tracts was published (London, 1753, 2 vols. 8vo). See Memoirs prefixed to the collection ; Hoefer, Nouv. Bioff. Generale, xxvi, 632; AUibone, Dictionary of Authors, i, 959.
Jeffries, George, an English lawyer of the crown, bom about 1640, was chief justice of the King's Bench during the reign of James II, and is execrated in eccle- siastical historj' for his conduct towards Baxter (q. v.) and Fairfax (q. v.). He seems to have been a man of low inclinations, and a ready tool in the hands of the court. In the year 1688, after the flight of king James, he was recognised at London during the riots by the rabble, and, after " having suffered far more than the bitterness of death, he was safely lodged in the fortress (the Tower of London), where some of his most illustri- ous victims had passed their last days, and where his own life was destined to close in unspeakable ignominj' and horror." He died April 18, 1689. No one has bet- ter delineated his character than IMacauIay {History of Enr/land, vol. ii), and we refer our readers to this able master for further details. See also Ncalc, History of the Pui-itans, ii, 317 sq., 341.