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Lexicon :: Strong's H3500 - yeṯer

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יֶתֶר
Transliteration
yeṯer
Pronunciation
yeh'-ther
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Part of Speech
proper masculine noun
Root Word (Etymology)
The same as יֶתֶר (H3499)
Strong’s Definitions

יֶתֶר Yether, yeh'-ther; the same as H3499; Jether, the name of five or six Israelites and of one Midianite:—Jether, Jethro. Compare H3503.

KJV Translation Count — Total: 9x

The KJV translates Strong's H3500 in the following manner: Jether (8x), Jethro (1x).

KJV Translation Count — Total: 9x
The KJV translates Strong's H3500 in the following manner: Jether (8x), Jethro (1x).

  1. Jether = "abundance"

    1. father-in-law of Moses

    2. oldest son of Gideon

    3. father of Jephunneh and the chief of a line of warriors of the line of Asher

    4. father of Amasa, the commander of Absalom's army

    5. son of Jada, a descendant of Hezron, of the tribe of Judah

    6. a son of Ezra, a Judaite

Strong’s Definitions [?](Strong’s Definitions Legend)
יֶתֶר Yether, yeh'-ther; the same as H3499; Jether, the name of five or six Israelites and of one Midianite:—Jether, Jethro. Compare H3503.
STRONGS H3500: Abbreviations
† III. יֶ֫תֶר proper name, masculine (abundance; on form and meaning of this and the following proper name see LagBN 52, 198) —
1. father of Moses' wife Exodus 4:18a (E; probably text error, elsewhere יִתְרוֺ, which see).
2. eldest son of Gideon Judges 8:20, Greek Version of the LXX Ιεθερ.
3. father of Amasa 1 Kings 2:5, 32; 1 Chronicles 2:17, Greek Version of the LXX Ιεθερ; = יִתְרָא 2 Samuel 17:25, Greek Version of the LXX Ιοθερ, Ιοθορ; LXX of Lucian (Lag.) Ιεθερ.
4. men of Judah, Greek Version of the LXX Ιεθερ:
a. 1 Chronicles 2:32 (twice in verse).
b. 1 Chronicles 4:17.
5. a man of Asher 1 Chronicles 7:38 (= יִתְרָן 1 Chronicles 7:37), Greek Version of the LXX Ιεθερ, A Ιεθηρ, LXX of Lucian (Lag.) [1 Chronicles 7:39] Εθραν.
Brown-Driver-Briggs Hebrew and English Lexicon, Unabridged, Electronic Database.
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BLB Scripture Index of Brown-Driver-Briggs

Exodus

4:18

Judges

8:20

2 Samuel

17:25

1 Kings

2:5; 2:32

1 Chronicles

2:17; 2:32; 4:17; 7:37; 7:38; 7:39

H3500

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Strong's Number H3500 matches the Hebrew יֶתֶר (yeṯer),
which occurs 9 times in 8 verses in the WLC Hebrew.

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Unchecked Copy Box Exo 4:18

Unchecked Copy BoxExo 4:18 - Then Moses went back to Jethro his father-in-law and said to him, “Let me return to my own people in Egypt to see if any of them are still alive.” Jethro said, “Go, and I wish you well.”

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Unchecked Copy Box Jdg 8:20

Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 8:20 - Turning to Jether, his oldest son, he said, “Kill them!” But Jether did not draw his sword, because he was only a boy and was afraid.

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Unchecked Copy Box 1Ki 2:5

Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 2:5 - “Now you yourself know what Joab son of Zeruiah did to me—what he did to the two commanders of Israel’s armies, Abner son of Ner and Amasa son of Jether. He killed them, shedding their blood in peacetime as if in battle, and with that blood he stained the belt around his waist and the sandals on his feet.

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Unchecked Copy Box 1Ki 2:32

Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 2:32 - The LORD will repay him for the blood he shed, because without my father David knowing it he attacked two men and killed them with the sword. Both of them—Abner son of Ner, commander of Israel’s army, and Amasa son of Jether, commander of Judah’s army—were better men and more upright than he.

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Unchecked Copy Box 1Ch 2:17

Unchecked Copy Box1Ch 2:17 - Abigail was the mother of Amasa, whose father was Jether the Ishmaelite.

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Unchecked Copy Box 1Ch 2:32

Unchecked Copy Box1Ch 2:32 - The sons of Jada, Shammai’s brother: Jether and Jonathan. Jether died without children.

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Unchecked Copy Box 1Ch 4:17

Unchecked Copy Box1Ch 4:17 - The sons of Ezrah: Jether, Mered, Epher and Jalon. One of Mered’s wives gave birth to Miriam, Shammai and Ishbah the father of Eshtemoa.

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Unchecked Copy Box 1Ch 7:38

Unchecked Copy Box1Ch 7:38 - The sons of Jether: Jephunneh, Pispah and Ara.
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