Jeru'sha (Heb. Yerusha', ii"::^''\^, possession; Sept. 'lepovaci), the daughter of Zadok, and mother of king Jothan, consequently wife of Uzziah, whom she appears to have survived (2 Kings xv, 33); written Jkrushah (n'^^~1', Yerushah', id. ; Sept, 'l(povaa) in the parallel passage (2 Chron. xxvii, 1). B.C. 806.
Jeru'shah (2 Chron. xxvii, 1). See Jerusha.
Jesai'ah [many>/cs«»'«/i] («,Xeh. xi,7, 6,1 Chron. iii, 21). See jESiiAiAir.
Jeshai'ah [many Jeshai'ah~\ (Hebrew Yeshayah'^ T\'^'2^'^, deliverance of Jehorah ; 1 Chron. iii, 21 ; Ezra | viii, 7, 19 ; Nell, xi, 7 ; elsewhere in the paragogic form i ^il^""i^^, Yeshaya'hv), the name of several men.
1. (Sept. 'Qaaiaq v. r. 'Iioffi'ac, Vulg. Isajas, Author. ; Vers. " Jeshaiah.") Son of Kehabiah, and father of Jo- !
ram, of the Levitical family of Eliezer (1 Chron. xxvi, 25). B.C. considerably ante 1014.
2. (Sept. 'lida v. r. Iryiat; ; 'laiag v. r. 'Iwtnu ; Yulg. Jesejas, Auth. Vers. "Jeshaiah.") One of the sons of Jeduthun, appointed under him among the sacred harp- ers (1 Chron. xxv, 3), at the head of the eighth divis- ion of Levitical musicians (ver. 15). B.C. 1014,
3. See Isaiah.
4. (Septuag. 'Xiaatia v. r. '!f(T(«, Vulg. Isaja, Auth. Vers. " Jesaiah.") Father of Ithicl, a Benjamite, whose descendant Sallu resided in Jerusalem alter the exile (Neh. ix, 7), B.C. long ante 539.
5. (Septuagint 'Itatta v. r. 'Ifffiae, Vulgate Jesejas, Auth. Vers. '-Jesaiah.") The second of the three sons of llananiah, son of Zcrubbabcl (1 Chron. iii, 21; see Strong's Harmony a^id Expos, of the Gosp. p. 17). B,C. post 53G.
6. (Septuag. 'Hfrain v. r. 'IiramcVulg. /.w/«s,Auth. Vers. " Jeshaiah.") Son of Athaliah, of the '" sons" of Elam, who returned with 70 male relatives from Baby- lon (Ezra viii, 7). B.C. 459.
7. (Sept. 'i(Tni'«, Vulg. Isajas, Author. Vers. "Jeshai- ah.") A Levite of tlie family of JMerari, who accom- panied Hashabiah to the river Ahava, on the way from Babylon to Palestine (Ezra viii, 19). B.C. 459.
Jesha'nah [many Jesh'anah'] (Hcb. Yeshanah', n3'^7, old, q. d. UaXaio-oXig ; Sept. 'itavpd v. r. 'Avd'), a citj' of the kingdom of Israel, taken with its suburbs from Jeroboam by Abijah, and mentioned as situated near Bethel and Ephraim (2 Chron. xiii, 19). It ap- pears to be the "village Isafuis" (l(Tc'n'ai;), mentioned by Josephus as the scene of Herod's encounter with Pappus, the general of Antigonus, in Samaria {Ant. xiv, 15,12, compare'lo-aj'rt,^?;?. viii, 11,8). It is not men- tioned by Jerome in the Onomasticon, unless we accept the conjecture of Reland (Aftesf.p. 8Gl),tliat "Jethaba, urbs anti(iua Judreaj" is at once a corruption and a trans- lation of the name Jeshana. According to Schwarz {Palestine, p. 158), it is the modern village &\-Sanm,tyio miles west of Bethel ; but no such name appears on Zira- mermann's map, unless it be Ain Sinia, a village sur- rounded by vineyards and fruit-trees, with vegetable gardens watered from a well, situated at a fork of the valley about a mileN.E. of Jufua (Robinson's Research- es, in, 80).
Jeshar'elah [some Jeshare'lah] (Heb. Yeshare'- lah, f^5N"i'4i!') vpright towards God; some copies read rt?X'liy% Yesare'lah ; Septuag. "lo-ptj^Xd v. r. 'latpii^X; Vulg. Isreeki), the head of the seventh division of Le- vitical musicians (1 Chron. xxv, 14) ; elsewhere called by the equivalent name Asarklah (ver. 2). B.C. 1014.
Jesheb'eab (Heb. Yeshehah', 2X3r^ seat o/" his father; Sept. 'laftadX v. r. 'Iftr/^flfiX, Vulg. Ishhaal), the head of the fourteenth division of priests as ar- ranged by David (1 Chron. xxiv, 13). B.C. 1014.
Jesher (Heb. Ye'sher, 1"^^ upriyht; Sept. 'iwajrap V. r. laadp), the first named of the three sons of Caleb (son of Hezron) by his first wife Azubah (1 Chrou. ii, 18). B.C. ante 1G58. See Jerioth.
Jesh'imon is the rendering in the Auth. Version (Numb. xxi. 211; xxiii, 28; 1 Sam. xxiii, 19, 24; xxvi, 1,3) of ')i""^w^ (yeshimon'), which simply denotes a icilderness, as in the margin (so the Sej)!.), and else- where in the text (Deut. xxxii, 10 ; Psa. Ixviii, 7 ; " des- ert." Psa. Ixxviii, 40; cvi, 14; Isa. xliii, 19, 20, "soli- tary" way, Psa. cvii, 4). See Desert.
Jesbimoth. See Beth-jesiiijioth,
Jesh'ishai [many Jeshish'al, some Jeshisha'i] (Heb. Yeshishay', '>':J'^':^'^, grayish, perh. q. d. born of an old man; Sept. 'iKTaat v. r. 'litrnt), the son of Jahdo and father of Michael, of the ancestry of Abihail, a Gad- ite chief in Bashan (1 Chron. v, 14). B.C. long ante 782r
Jeshohai'ah (llch. Jeshochayah', n'^nrj;^, u-or-
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shipper of Jehovah; Sept. 'lacjovta), a chief Simeonite, apparently one of those who migrated to the valley of Gedor (1 "chron. iv, 3C). B.C. prob. cir. 711.
Jesh'ua (Heb. Yeshii'a, "n-::% a contracted form of .Josiii-A, i. q. Jescs; Sept. 'U]aovc), the name of several men, also of a place.
1. (Xeh. vui, 17.) Sec Joshua.
2. Tiie head of the ninth sacerdotal " class" as ar- ran"-ed by David (1 Chron. xxiv, 11, where the name is Anglicized •' Jeshuah"). B.C. 1014. He is thought by some to be the Jeshua of Ezra ii, 3G. But see No. G.
" 3. One of the Levites appointed by Hezekiah to dis- tribute the sacred offerings in the sacerdotal cities (2 Chron. xxxi, 15). B.C. 7-2C.
4. A descendant (or native) of Pahath-moab ((j. v.) mentioned along with Joab as one whose ])osterity, to the number of 2812 (2818), returned from Babylon (Ezra ii, 6 ; Neh. vii, 11). B.C. ante 53G.