Jekanii'ah (Heb. Yekamgah', fl^'?^'', gathered by Jehovah), the name of two men.
1. (Sept. 'ItKoi-iiaQ v. r. 'lexffilac, ^'n'S- Tcamia.) Son of Shallum, and father of Elishama, of the descend- ants of Sheshan of Judah (1 Chron. ii, 41). B.C. prob. cir. 588.
2. (Sept. 'If/cfi'iVi V. r. 'l6(v-f/(i'«,Vulg. Jecemia, Anth. Version "Jecamiah.") The fifth named of the sons of king Jeconiah (1 Chron. iii, 18), born to him during the Babylonian exile, and, according to tradition, by Susan- na. See Jeiioiaciiix. B.C. post .598.
Jeku'thiel (Heb. Yekuthiel', bx^r^p:', reverence
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of God; Sept. 'ItK^ipiX V. r. 6 Xstii'i\), "father" of Za- noah, and one of the sons apparently of Mered by his second wife Hodiah, or Jehudijah (1 Chron. iv, 18). B.C. cir. 1(518. See Mered.
" In the comment of Kabbi Joseph, Jered is interpreted to mean Jloses, and each of the names following are taken as titles borne by him. Jekuthiel — 'trust in God'— is so applied ' because in his days the Israelites trusted in the God of heaven for forty years in the wil- derness.' In a remarkable praj^er used by the Spanish and Portuguese Jews in the concluding service of the Sabbath, Elijah is invoked as having had ' tidings of peace delivered to him by the hand of Jekuthiel.' This is explained to refer to some transaction in the life of Phineas, with whom Elijah is, in the traditions of the Jews, beUeved to be identical (see Allen, Modem Juda- ism, p. 229)."— Smith.
Jekuthiel. See Luzatto.
Jekuthiel ben-Isaac Blitz, also called by his father's name, Isaac Blitz, was corrector of the press at the printing establishment of Uri Febes Levi at Am- sterdam, and was the first Jew who translated the whole O. T. into German (in Hebrew type). It was published under the title tSD^S ';V:;bn "'in {The four- and- iwenh) Books translated into German), with (riTip^lr. t2="rX -(Vrbn anb-in) Ralbag's nl-ibs-ir, or Usus on Joshua, Judges, and Samuel, and a threefold introduc- tion, viz. a Hebrew introduction by the translator, a Latin diploma from the Polish king, John Sobieski III, a JudfEo-German introduction by the publisher, and a German introduction by the translator (Amsterd. 1676- 78). A specimen of this translation is given by Wolf, Biblioiheca Ilebrcea, iv, 183-187. Comp. also ii, 454 of the same work ; Steinschneider, Catulogus Libr. Ilebr. in Bibliotheca Bodleiana, col. 175; Griitz, Geschichte dtr Juden, X, 329 sq. ; Fiirst, Biblioth. Jud. i, 120 sq.
Jekuthiel ben-Jehudah Cohen (also called S.vl:«an Nakoox, i. e. the Punctuator, and by contrac- tion Ieiiabi), a distinguished ]\Iasorite and editor of the Hebrew Scriptures, lioiu-ished in Prague in the latter half of the loth century. He edited a very correct text of the Pentateuch (published for the first time by Hei- denheim in his edition of the Pentateuch called ^.'X'S f^rr [Rodelhcim, 1818-21]) and the book of F>*ther (also published by Heidenheim in his Ci-^Bn '''0'^ "nO [Rcidelheim, 1825]), with the vowels and accents, for the preparation of which he consulted six old Spanish codices, which he denominates N P, p N, H X, 0 "S, T X, D X, and which Heidenheim explains to moan
'inx I'lp'^r, "(I'^np, nvrn, rrT^s-s, ipT, ni::, the
prefix X denoting Spain (comp. X"!ipn "p" on Numb, xxxiv, 28). The results of his critical labors he further embodied in a work entitled Slip ';■'" {The Ki/e of the Reader^, and makes frequent quotations from the writ- ings of man}- distinguished Jewish commentators of his and the preceding age. An appendix to the work con- tains a grammatical treatise entitled "ipDn "^-"i"!, or Tlp:n "^PPD (The Laws of the Voivel Points). Comp. Zunz, Zur Geschichte und Literatur (Berl. 1845), p. 115; Fiirst, /biblioth era .Tudaicn, ii, 53 ; Geiger, \Vissensch(f(- liche Zeitschrif/fJiidische Theolof/ie, v,'ll8-4-2Q; Stein- schneider, Calaior/ns Libr. Heb.in Bibliotheca Bodleiana, col. 1381.— Kitto, Ci/clop.Bibl. Lit. s. v.
Jemi'ma (Ileb. Yemimah', fl^'^iS'', dore, from the Arab. ; Sept. 'H/ispa, Vulg. Dies, both mistaking the der- ivation as if from Dl'"', day), the name of the first of Job's three daughters born after his trial (Job xlii, 14). B.C. cir. 2200. "The Rev. C. Forster {Historical Ge- ography of A rahia, ii, 67), in tracing the posterity of Job in Arabia, thinks that the name of Jemima sur- vives in Jemama, the central province of the Arabian peninsula, which, according to an Arabian tradition (see
Bochart, Phaleg, ii, § 26), was called after Jemama, an ancient queen of the Arabians" (Smith).
Jemini. See Benjamin.
Jem'naan (Tf/ivaftv, Yulg. omits), a place men- tioned in the Apocrj'pha (Judith ii, 20) among those on the sea-coast of Palestine to which the panic of the incursion of Holofernes extended, no doubt Jabneel or Jamnia (q. v.).
Jemu'el (Heb. YemueV, h^'^'Q'^, rfa^Z-light of Godj Sept. 'l£/uoi'/;X, Vidg. Jamuel), the first-named of the sons of Simeon ((ien. xlvi, 10 ; Exod. vi, 15) ; elsewhere (Numb, xxvi, 12) called Nemuel (bxi^3, Xemu'el' ; Sept. Najuov/iXjYulg. A^amuel), apparently by an error of copyists, and his descendants Nemielites (Hebrew Nemueli, "^bx^llSp, Sept. 'Na/.toviiXI, Yulg. Kamueliice, Numb, xxvi, "l2)! B.C. 1856.
Jeiiisch, Daniel, a German theologian of some note, was born at Heiligenbeil, in East Prussia, A]iril 2, 1762, and educated at the University of Kiinigsberg. In 1786 he became pastor at the Mary Church, and af- terwards at the Nicholas Church. Endowed with great natural abilities, and a verj' earnest worker, Jenisch soon secured for himself one of the foremost places as a theologian and a philosophical writer. But too close application to study resulted in a derangement of his mental powers, and he is supposed to have violently end- ed his life Feb. 9, 1804. His works of interest to us are Ueber Grund u. Werth d. Entderlinif/iii KanVs in der Metaphysil; Moral, u. Aesthetlh ( Hcrl. 17ii6, large 8vo) : — Sollte Belif/ion demMenschn j< muls < nlhchrlich icerden (ibid. 1797, 8vo). Besides these, he published, after his mind began to be seriously affected, Ueber Gottesi-erehr- umj u. Kirchliche Reformen (ibid. 1802, 8vo), ratber the work of a sceptical Christian, if we may use the expres- sion, though it contains also many just criticisms on the liturgy and homiletics of the Lutheran Church of his day ; and Kritik des dogmatisch-idealischen ii. hyper- idealischen Religions- u. Moralsystenis (Lpz. 1804, 8vo), which was the last work of Jenisch. See Doring, 6'e- lehrte Theologen Deutschlands, ii, 20 sq. (J. H.W.)