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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 1 / 3 (1Sa 26:6–2Sa 17:25)

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Unchecked Copy Box 1Sa 26:6

Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 26:6 - And David answereth and saith unto Ahimelech the Hittite, and unto Abishai son of Zeruiah, brother of Joab, saying, 'Who doth go down with me unto Saul, unto the camp?' and Abishai saith, 'I -- I go down with thee.'

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Unchecked Copy Box 2Sa 2:13

Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 2:13 - And Joab son of Zeruiah, and servants of David, have gone out, and they meet by the pool of Gibeon together, and sit down, these by the pool on this side, and these by the pool on that.

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Unchecked Copy Box 2Sa 2:14

Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 2:14 - And Abner saith unto Joab, 'Let the youths rise, I pray thee, and they play before us;' and Joab saith, 'Let them rise.'

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Unchecked Copy Box 2Sa 2:18

Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 2:18 - And there are there three sons of Zeruiah, Joab, and Abishai, and Asahel, and Asahel is light on his feet, as one of the roes which are in the field,

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Unchecked Copy Box 2Sa 2:22

Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 2:22 - And Abner addeth again, saying unto Asahel, 'Turn thee aside from after me, why do I smite thee to the earth? and how do I lift up my face unto Joab thy brother?'

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Unchecked Copy Box 2Sa 2:24

Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 2:24 - And Joab and Abishai pursue after Abner, and the sun hath gone in, and they have come in unto the height of Ammah, which is on the front of Giah, the way of the wilderness of Gibeon.

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Unchecked Copy Box 2Sa 2:26

Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 2:26 - and Abner calleth unto Joab, and saith, 'For ever doth the sword consume? hast thou not known that it is bitterness in the latter end? and till when dost thou not say to the people to turn back from after their brethren?'

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Unchecked Copy Box 2Sa 2:27

Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 2:27 - And Joab saith, 'God liveth! for unless thou hadst spoken, surely then from the morning had the people gone up each from after his brother.'

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Unchecked Copy Box 2Sa 2:28

Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 2:28 - And Joab bloweth with a trumpet, and all the people stand still, and pursue no more after Israel, nor have they added any more to fight.

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Unchecked Copy Box 2Sa 2:30

Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 2:30 - And Joab hath turned back from after Abner, and gathereth all the people, and there are lacking of the servants of David nineteen men, and Asahel;

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Unchecked Copy Box 2Sa 2:32

Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 2:32 - And they lift up Asahel, and bury him in the burying-place of his father, which is in Beth-Lehem, and they go all the night -- Joab and his men -- and it is light to them in Hebron.

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Unchecked Copy Box 2Sa 3:22

Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 3:22 - And lo, the servants of David, and Joab, have come from the troop, and much spoil have brought with them, and Abner is not with David in Hebron, for he hath sent him away, and he goeth in peace;

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Unchecked Copy Box 2Sa 3:23

Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 3:23 - and Joab and all the host that is with him have come, and they declare to Joab, saying, 'Abner son of Ner hath come unto the king, and he sendeth him away, and he goeth in peace.'

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Unchecked Copy Box 2Sa 3:24

Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 3:24 - And Joab cometh unto the king, and saith, 'What hast thou done? lo, Abner hath come unto thee! why is this -- thou hast sent him away, and he is really gone?

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Unchecked Copy Box 2Sa 3:26

Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 3:26 - And Joab goeth out from David, and sendeth messengers after Abner, and they bring him back from the well of Sirah, and David knew not.

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Unchecked Copy Box 2Sa 3:27

Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 3:27 - And Abner turneth back to Hebron, and Joab turneth him aside unto the midst of the gate to speak with him quietly, and smiteth him there in the fifth rib -- and he dieth -- for the blood of Asahel his brother.

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Unchecked Copy Box 2Sa 3:29

Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 3:29 - it doth stay on the head of Joab, and on all the house of his father, and there is not cut off from the house of Joab one having an issue, and leprous, and laying hold on a staff, and falling by a sword, and lacking bread.'

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Unchecked Copy Box 2Sa 3:30

Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 3:30 - And Joab and Abishai his brother slew Abner because that he put to death Asahel their brother, in Gibeon, in battle.

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Unchecked Copy Box 2Sa 3:31

Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 3:31 - And David saith unto Joab, and unto all the people who are with him, 'Rend your garments, and gird on sackcloth, and mourn before Abner;' and king David is going after the bier.

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Unchecked Copy Box 2Sa 8:16

Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 8:16 - and Joab son of Zeruiah is over the host, and Jehoshaphat son of Ahilud is remembrancer,

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Unchecked Copy Box 2Sa 10:7

Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 10:7 - and David heareth, and sendeth Joab, and all the host -- the mighty men.

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Unchecked Copy Box 2Sa 10:9

Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 10:9 - and Joab seeth that the front of the battle hath been unto him before and behind, and he chooseth of all the chosen in Israel, and setteth in array to meet Aram,

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Unchecked Copy Box 2Sa 10:13

Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 10:13 - And Joab draweth nigh, and the people who are with him, to battle against Aram, and they flee from his presence;

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Unchecked Copy Box 2Sa 10:14

Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 10:14 - and the Bene-Ammon have seen that Aram hath fled, and they flee from the presence of Abishai, and go in to the city; and Joab turneth back from the Bene-Ammon, and cometh in to Jerusalem.

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Unchecked Copy Box 2Sa 11:1

Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 11:1 - And it cometh to pass, at the revolution of the year -- at the time of the going out of the messengers -- that David sendeth Joab, and his servants with him, and all Israel, and they destroy the Bene-Ammon, and lay siege against Rabbah. And David is dwelling in Jerusalem,

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Unchecked Copy Box 2Sa 11:6

Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 11:6 - And David sendeth unto Joab, 'Send unto me Uriah the Hittite,' and Joab sendeth Uriah unto David;

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Unchecked Copy Box 2Sa 11:7

Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 11:7 - and Uriah cometh unto him, and David asketh of the prosperity of Joab, and of the prosperity of the people, and of the prosperity of the war.

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Unchecked Copy Box 2Sa 11:11

Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 11:11 - And Uriah saith unto David, 'The ark, and Israel, and Judah, are abiding in booths, and my lord Joab, and the servants of my lord, on the face of the field are encamping; and I -- I go in unto my house to eat and to drink, and to lie with my wife! -- thy life, and the life of thy soul -- if I do this thing.'

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Unchecked Copy Box 2Sa 11:14

Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 11:14 - And it cometh to pass in the morning, that David writeth a letter unto Joab, and sendeth by the hand of Uriah;

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Unchecked Copy Box 2Sa 11:16

Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 11:16 - And it cometh to pass in Joab's watching of the city, that he appointeth Uriah unto the place where he knew that valiant men are;

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Unchecked Copy Box 2Sa 11:17

Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 11:17 - and the men of the city go out and fight with Joab, and there fall some of the people, of the servants of David; and there dieth also Uriah the Hittite.

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Unchecked Copy Box 2Sa 11:18

Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 11:18 - And Joab sendeth and declareth to David all the matters of the war,

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Unchecked Copy Box 2Sa 11:22

Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 11:22 - And the messenger goeth, and cometh in, and declareth to David all that with which Joab sent him,

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Unchecked Copy Box 2Sa 11:25

Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 11:25 - And David saith unto the messenger, 'Thus dost thou say unto Joab, Let not this thing be evil in thine eyes; for thus and thus doth the sword devour; strengthen thy warfare against the city, and throw it down -- and strengthen thou him.'

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Unchecked Copy Box 2Sa 12:26

Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 12:26 - And Joab fighteth against Rabbah of the Bene-Ammon, and captureth the royal city,

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Unchecked Copy Box 2Sa 12:27

Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 12:27 - and Joab sendeth messengers unto David, and saith, 'I have fought against Rabbah -- also I have captured the city of waters;

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Unchecked Copy Box 2Sa 14:1

Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 14:1 - And Joab son of Zeruial knoweth that the heart of the king is on Absalom,

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Unchecked Copy Box 2Sa 14:2

Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 14:2 - and Joab sendeth to Tekoah, and taketh thence a wise woman, and saith unto her, 'Feign thyself a mourner, I pray thee, and put on, I pray thee, garments of mourning, and anoint not thyself with oil, and thou hast been as a woman these many days mourning for the dead,

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Unchecked Copy Box 2Sa 14:3

Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 14:3 - and thou hast gone unto the king, and spoken unto him, according to this word;' and Joab putteth the words into her mouth.

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Unchecked Copy Box 2Sa 14:19

Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 14:19 - And the king saith, 'Is the hand of Joab with thee in all this?' And the woman answereth and saith, 'Thy soul liveth, my lord, O king, none doth turn to the right or to the left from all that my lord the king hath spoken; for thy servant Joab he commanded me, and he put in the mouth of thy maid-servant all these words;

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Unchecked Copy Box 2Sa 14:20

Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 14:20 - in order to bring round the appearance of the thing hath thy servant Joab done this thing, and my lord is wise, according to the wisdom of a messenger of God, to know all that is in the land.'

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Unchecked Copy Box 2Sa 14:21

Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 14:21 - And the king saith unto Joab, 'Lo, I pray thee, thou hast done this thing; and go, bring back the young man Absalom.'

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Unchecked Copy Box 2Sa 14:22

Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 14:22 - And Joab falleth on his face to the earth, and doth obeisance, and blesseth the king, and Joab saith, 'To-day hath thy servant known that I have found grace in thine eyes, my lord, O king, in that the king hath done the word of his servant.'

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Unchecked Copy Box 2Sa 14:23

Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 14:23 - And Joab riseth and goeth to Geshur, and bringeth in Absalom to Jerusalem,

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Unchecked Copy Box 2Sa 14:29

Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 14:29 - and Absalom sendeth unto Joab, to send him unto the king, and he hath not been willing to come unto him; and he sendeth again a second time, and he hath not been willing to come.

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Unchecked Copy Box 2Sa 14:30

Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 14:30 - And he saith unto his servants, 'See, the portion of Joab is by the side of mine, and he hath barley there; go, and burn it with fire;' and the servants of Absalom burn the portion with fire.

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Unchecked Copy Box 2Sa 14:31

Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 14:31 - And Joab riseth and cometh unto Absalom in the house, and saith unto him, 'Why have thy servants burned the portion that I have with fire?'

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Unchecked Copy Box 2Sa 14:32

Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 14:32 - And Absalom saith unto Joab, 'Lo, I sent unto thee, saying, Come hither, and I send thee unto the king to say, Why have I come in from Geshur? -- good for me while I am there -- and now, let me see the king's face, and if there is in me iniquity then thou hast put me to death.'

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Unchecked Copy Box 2Sa 14:33

Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 14:33 - And Joab cometh unto the king, and declareth it to him, and he calleth unto Absalom, and he cometh unto the king, and boweth himself to him, on his face, to the earth, before the king, and the king giveth a kiss to Absalom.

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Unchecked Copy Box 2Sa 17:25

Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 17:25 - and Amasa hath Absalom set instead of Joab over the host, and Amasa is a man's son whose name is Ithra the Israelite who hath gone in unto Abigail, daughter of Nahash, sister of Zeruiah, mother of Joab;

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