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Lexicon :: Strong's H3097 - yô'āḇ

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יוֹאָב
Transliteration
yô'āḇ
Pronunciation
yo-awb'
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Part of Speech
proper masculine noun
Root Word (Etymology)
Strong’s Definitions

יוֹאָב Yôwʼâb, yo-awb'; from H3068 and H1; Jehovah-fathered; Joab, the name of three Israelites:—Joab.

KJV Translation Count — Total: 145x

The KJV translates Strong's H3097 in the following manner: Joab (145x).

KJV Translation Count — Total: 145x
The KJV translates Strong's H3097 in the following manner: Joab (145x).

  1. Joab = "Jehovah is father"

    1. son of David's sister Zeruiah and general of David's army

    2. a Judaite descendant of Kenaz

    3. a post exilic family

Strong’s Definitions [?](Strong’s Definitions Legend)
יוֹאָב Yôwʼâb, yo-awb'; from H3068 and H1; Jehovah-fathered; Joab, the name of three Israelites:—Joab.
STRONGS H3097: Abbreviations
יוֺאָב proper name, masculine (י׳ is father; compare אֲבִיָּהוּ, אֱלִיאָב, אֲבִיאֵל & references) —
1. David's sister's son & captain of his host (Greek Version of the LXX Ἰωαβ) 1 Samuel 26:6; 2 Samuel 2:13 + 100 times 2 Samuel (also 2 Samuel 20:6 for MT אֲבִישַׁי compare Syriac Version We Dr); 1 Kings 1:7 + 14 times 1 Kings; 1 Chronicles 2:16 + 22 times 1 Chronicles; Psalm 60:2.
2. a descendant of Judah 1 Chronicles 4:14 (but Greek Version of the LXX B LXX of Lucian (Lag.) Ἰωβαβ).
3. a family-name after the exile Ezra 2:6 = Nehemiah 7:11 (Greek Version of the LXX Ἰωβαβ, Ἰωαβ) Ezra 8:9 (Greek Version of the LXX Ἰωαβ).
Brown-Driver-Briggs Hebrew and English Lexicon, Unabridged, Electronic Database.
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BLB Scripture Index of Brown-Driver-Briggs

1 Samuel

26:6

2 Samuel

2:13; 20:6

1 Kings

1:7

1 Chronicles

2:16; 4:14

Ezra

2:6; 8:9

Nehemiah

7:11

Psalms

60:2

H3097

Word / Phrase / Strong's Search

Strong's Number H3097 matches the Hebrew יוֹאָב (yô'āḇ),
which occurs 145 times in 124 verses in the WLC Hebrew.

Page 2 / 3 (2Sa 18:2–1Ch 4:14)

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Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 18:2 - And David sent the people out, one-third under the hand of Joab H3097, one-third under the hand of Abishai the son of Zeruiah, Joab’s H3097 brother, and one-third under the hand of Ittai the Gittite. And the king said to the people, “I myself will surely go out with you also.”

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Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 18:5 - Then the king commanded Joab H3097 and Abishai and Ittai, saying, “Deal gently for my sake with the young man Absalom.” And all the people heard when the king commanded all the commanders concerning Absalom.

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Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 18:10 - Then a certain man saw it, he told Joab H3097 and said, “Behold, I saw Absalom hanging in an oak.”

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Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 18:11 - Then Joab H3097 said to the man who had told him, “Now behold, you saw him! Why then did you not strike him there to the ground? And I would have given you ten pieces of silver and a belt.”

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Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 18:12 - So the man said to Joab H3097, “Even if I should receive one thousand pieces of silver in my hand, I would not send forth my hand against the king’s son; for in our hearing the king commanded you and Abishai and Ittai, saying, ‘[fn]Keep for me the young man Absalom!’

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Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 18:14 - Then Joab H3097 said, “I will not wait around here before you.” So he took three [fn]spears in his hand and thrust them through the heart of Absalom while he was yet alive in the [fn]midst of the oak.

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Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 18:15 - And ten young men who carried Joab’s H3097 armor gathered around and struck Absalom and put him to death.

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Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 18:16 -

Then Joab H3097 blew the trumpet, and the people returned from pursuing Israel, for Joab H3097 restrained the people.

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Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 18:20 - But Joab H3097 said to him, “You are not the man for the good news this day, but you shall proclaim the good news another day; however, you shall not proclaim the good news today because the king’s son has died.”

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Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 18:21 - Then Joab H3097 said to the Cushite, “Go, tell the king what you have seen.” So the Cushite bowed to Joab H3097 and ran.

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Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 18:22 - Now Ahimaaz the son of Zadok said once more to Joab H3097, “But whatever happens, please let me also run after the Cushite.” And Joab H3097 said, “Why would you run, my son, since you will have no reward for going?”

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Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 18:29 - Then the king said, “Is there peace with the young man Absalom?” And Ahimaaz said, “When Joab H3097 sent the king’s servant, and your servant, I saw a great tumult, but I did not know what it was.”

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Then it was told to Joab H3097, “Behold, the king is weeping and mourns for Absalom.”

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Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 19:5 - Then Joab H3097 came into the house to the king and said, “Today you have shamed the faces of all your servants, who today have provided escape for your life and the lives of your sons and daughters, the lives of your wives, and the lives of your concubines,

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Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 19:13 - “And say to Amasa, ‘Are you not my bone and my flesh? May God do so to me, and more also, if you will not be commander of the army before me continually in place of Joab H3097.’”

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Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 20:7 - So Joab’s H3097 men pursued him, along with the Cherethites and the Pelethites and all the mighty men; and they went out from Jerusalem to pursue Sheba the son of Bichri.

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Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 20:8 - They were at the large stone which is in Gibeon, and Amasa came [fn]to meet them. Now Joab H3097 was [fn]dressed in his military attire, and over it was a belt with a sword in its sheath fastened at his [fn]waist; and as he came out, it fell out.

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Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 20:9 - Then Joab H3097 said to Amasa, “Is it well with you, my brother?” And Joab H3097 took Amasa by the beard with his right hand to kiss him.

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Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 20:10 - But Amasa was not on guard against the sword which was in Joab’s H3097 hand so he struck him in the belly with it and poured out his inward parts on the ground, and did not strike him again, and he died. Then Joab H3097 and Abishai his brother pursued Sheba the son of Bichri.

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Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 20:11 - Now there stood by him one of Joab’s H3097 young men, and said, “Whoever delights in Joab H3097 and whoever is for David, let him follow Joab H3097.”

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Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 20:13 - As soon as he was removed from the highway, all the men passed on after Joab H3097 to pursue Sheba the son of Bichri.

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Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 20:15 - So they came and besieged him in Abel Beth-maacah, and they [fn]cast up a siege ramp against the city, and it stood by the rampart; and all the people who were with Joab H3097 were wreaking destruction in order to cause the wall to fall.

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Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 20:16 - Then a wise woman called from the city, “Hear, hear! Please tell Joab H3097, ‘Draw near that I may speak with you.’”

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Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 20:17 - So he drew near to her, and the woman said, “Are you Joab H3097?” And he answered, “I am.” Then she said to him, “Listen to the words of your maidservant.” And he answered, “I am listening.”

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Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 20:20 - And Joab H3097 answered and said, “Far be it, far be it from me that I should swallow up or destroy!

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Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 20:21 - “Such is not the case. But a man from the hill country of Ephraim, Sheba the son of Bichri by name, has lifted up his hand against King David. Give him over alone, and I will go from the city.” And the woman said to Joab H3097, “Behold, his head will be thrown to you over the wall.”

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Unchecked Copy Box 2Sa 20:22

Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 20:22 - Then the woman came to all the people in her wisdom. And they cut off the head of Sheba the son of Bichri and threw it to Joab H3097. So he blew the trumpet, and they were scattered from the city, each to his tent. Joab H3097 also returned to the king at Jerusalem.

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Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 20:23 -

Now Joab H3097 was over the whole army of Israel, and Benaiah the son of Jehoiada was over the Cherethites and the Pelethites;

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Now Abishai, the brother of Joab H3097, the son of Zeruiah, was chief of the [fn]thirty. And he swung his spear against three hundred [fn]who were slain by him; and he had a name as well as the three.

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Asahel the brother of Joab H3097 was among the thirty; Elhanan the son of Dodo of Bethlehem,

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Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 23:37 - Zelek the Ammonite, Naharai the Beerothite, armor bearers of Joab H3097 the son of Zeruiah,

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Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 24:2 - So the king said to Joab H3097 the commander of the military force who was with him, “Go about now through all the tribes of Israel, from Dan to Beersheba, and [fn]take a census of the people, that I may know the total count of the people.”

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Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 24:3 - But Joab H3097 said to the king, “Now may Yahweh your God add to the people a hundred times as many as they are, while the eyes of my lord the king still see; but why does my lord the king delight in this thing?”

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Unchecked Copy Box 2Sa 24:4

Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 24:4 - Nevertheless, the king’s word stood strong against Joab H3097 and against the commanders of the military force. So Joab H3097 and the commanders of the military force went out from the presence of the king to [fn]take a census of the people of Israel.

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Unchecked Copy Box 2Sa 24:9

Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 24:9 - And Joab H3097 gave the total count of the [fn]census of the people to the king; and there were in Israel 800,000 valiant men who drew the sword, and the men of Judah were 500,000 men.

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Unchecked Copy Box 1Ki 1:7

Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 1:7 - [fn]And he had conferred with Joab H3097 the son of Zeruiah and with Abiathar the priest; and following Adonijah, they helped him.

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Unchecked Copy Box 1Ki 1:19

Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 1:19 - “And he has sacrificed oxen and fatlings and sheep in abundance, and has invited all the sons of the king and Abiathar the priest and Joab H3097 the commander of the army, but he has not invited Solomon your servant.

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And Adonijah and all the guests who were with him heard it as they finished eating. Then Joab H3097 heard the sound of the trumpet and said, “Why is the sound of the city such an uproar?”

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“Now you also know what Joab H3097 the son of Zeruiah did to me, what he did to the two commanders of the armies of Israel, to Abner the son of Ner, and to Amasa the son of Jether, whom he killed; he also [fn]shed the blood of war in peace. And he put the blood of war on his belt [fn]about his [fn]waist, and on his sandals [fn]on his feet.

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Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 2:22 - Then King Solomon answered and said to his mother, “And why are you asking Abishag the Shunammite for Adonijah? Ask for him also the kingdom—for he is my older brother—even for him, for Abiathar the priest, and for Joab H3097 the son of Zeruiah!”

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Now the news came to Joab H3097, for Joab H3097 had followed Adonijah, although he had not followed Absalom. And Joab H3097 fled to the tent of Yahweh and took hold of the horns of the altar.

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Unchecked Copy Box 1Ki 2:29

Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 2:29 - And it was told to King Solomon that Joab H3097 had fled to the tent of Yahweh, and behold, he is beside the altar. Then Solomon sent Benaiah the son of Jehoiada, saying, “Go, fall upon him.”

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Unchecked Copy Box 1Ki 2:30

Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 2:30 - So Benaiah came to the tent of Yahweh and said to him, “Thus the king has said, ‘Come out.’” But he said, “No, for I will die here.” And Benaiah brought the king word again, saying, “Thus spoke Joab H3097, and thus he answered me.”

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Unchecked Copy Box 1Ki 2:31

Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 2:31 - And the king said to him, “Do as he has spoken and fall upon him and bury him, that you may remove from me and from my father’s house the blood which Joab H3097 shed without cause.

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Unchecked Copy Box 1Ki 2:33

Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 2:33 - “So shall their blood return on the head of Joab H3097 and on the head of his seed forever; but to David and his seed and his house and his throne, may there be peace from Yahweh forever.”

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Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 11:15 -

Now it happened that when David was in Edom, and Joab H3097 the commander of the army had gone up to bury the slain, and had struck down every male in Edom

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Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 11:16 - (for Joab H3097 and all Israel stayed there six months, until he had cut off every male in Edom),

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Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 11:21 -

But Hadad heard in Egypt that David slept with his fathers and that Joab H3097 the commander of the army had died. So Hadad said to Pharaoh, “Send me away, that I may go to my own country.”

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Unchecked Copy Box1Ch 2:16 -

and their sisters were Zeruiah and Abigail.

And the three sons of Zeruiah were [fn]Abshai, Joab H3097, and Asahel.

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Unchecked Copy Box1Ch 4:14 -

Meonothai became the father of Ophrah,

and Seraiah became the father of Joab H3097 the father of [fn]Ge-harashim, for they were craftsmen.


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