יוֹזָבָד
Jozabad
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Full lexicon entry — Brown-Driver-Briggs (BDB)
From Brown-Driver-Briggs (BDB)
Where this word appears
Grammar key — what these labels mean
Part of speech
- Noun
- A naming word — a person, place, thing, or idea.
Noun type
- Proper
- A name of a specific person, place, or people (e.g. Abraham, Zion, Israel).
Every verse where H3107 appears in the Book of Ezra — 3 distinct verses. Click any verse to open its interlinear word-by-word view. Verse text shown in the World English Bible for context — . Each verse’s Hebrew form is shown with its reference; the English is not keyword-highlighted, since the data carries no word-level English alignment. Use “Compare translations” on any verse to read it across multiple English versions. This concordance covers the Hebrew Bible; Septuagint (Greek Old Testament) occurrences are not indexed here.
Ezra
- Ezra 8:33 יוֹזָבָ֧ד n Proper On the fourth day the silver and the gold and the vessels were weighed in the house of our God into the hand of Meremoth the son of Uriah the priest; and with him was Eleazar the son of Phinehas; and with them was Jozabad the son of Jeshua, and Noadiah the son of Binnui, the Levite;
- Ezra 10:22 יוֹזָבָ֖ד n Proper Of the sons of Pashhur: Elioenai, Maaseiah, Ishmael, Nethanel, Jozabad, and Elasah.
- Ezra 10:23 יוֹזָבָ֣ד n Proper Of the Levites: Jozabad, and Shimei, and Kelaiah (the same is Kelita), Pethahiah, Judah, and Eliezer.
About this entry
At a glance — auto-summarized from this page’s data, not written by a person. Every figure links to its source below. This summary describes the numbers; it doesn’t interpret them.
At its core, יוזבד (Yôwzâbâd) means “Jozabad.” Scripture first uses it in 1 Chronicles 12:4. With 9 verses in 4 books, it is an uncommon word in the Hebrew Bible. Its uses concentrate in Ezra (33% of all occurrences). Dig into 9-verse concordance and the renderings breakdown below.
Gloss history
Strong's 1890 vs modern scholarship
About this word
Strong's H3107 catalogs a Hebrew word from the Hebrew Old Testament.
These counts are not copied from any lexicon or concordance. They are computed here, from the morphology-tagged Hebrew Old Testament. What Lemma adds →
- 9
- distinct verses
- The word appears in 9 distinct verses.
- 4 / 39
- OT books
- The word appears in 4 of 39 Old Testament books.
- #2,342
- by frequency
- Top 2500 most frequent Hebrew words (rank 2,342 of 8,640 Hebrew words by occurrence).
View all 9 occurrences in the concordance →
Most concentrated in
- Ezra 3 verses 33%
- 1 Chronicles 2 verses 22%
- 2 Chronicles 2 verses 22%
By section of the Old Testament
By traditional corpus
Conventional, traditional groupings — biblical authorship is debated, so this is a traditional corpus grouping, not an authorship claim. Each share is this word’s portion of its verses in that division of the Hebrew canon. Each figure is a share of the word’s 9 distinct verses.
- Writings (Ketuvim) 9 verses · 100%
How translations render this word
Counts come from each version’s own published word-to-Strong’s tagging or interlinear alignment — an approximate guide to how each version renders this word, not a word-level alignment the data otherwise carries. Because each total is that version’s own tagged count, the per-version totals vary from one another and need not match the appearance or distinct-verse counts above. These counts may also differ from a printed concordance because Lemma counts each distinctly tagged rendering and does not collapse phrase taggings into a single head-word total. This is a fixed set of word-tagged versions (KJV, ASV, BSB, ULT) and does not change with the reading translation you choose elsewhere. Each version’s license is shown beside its name below (and on Sources).
- King James Version: Jozabad 8×
- American Standard Version: Jozabad 9×
- Berean Standard Bible: Jozabad 11×
- unfoldingWord Literal Text: Jozabad 10×
King James Version Public Domain
Renders H3107 across 10 tagged occurrences — most commonly:
Plus 2 renderings that appear only once — usually multi-word phrases or single function words the recovered tagging swept in, not distinct renderings.
American Standard Version Public Domain
Renders H3107 across 10 tagged occurrences — most commonly:
Plus 1 rendering that appears only once — usually multi-word phrases or single function words the recovered tagging swept in, not distinct renderings.
Berean Standard Bible Public Domain
Renders H3107 across 11 tagged occurrences — most commonly:
unfoldingWord Literal Text CC BY-SA 4.0
Renders H3107 across 10 tagged occurrences — most commonly:
15 senses and sub-senses in the full BDB
What do BDB’s symbols mean?
BDB uses these scholarly abbreviations:
| Symbol | Meaning |
|---|---|
| 𝔊 | the Septuagint (the ancient Greek translation, LXX) |
| 𝔙 | the Vulgate (the Latin translation) |
| 𝔖 | the Syriac version (the Peshitta) |
| 𝔗 | the Targum (the Aramaic translation) |
| ψ | the Psalms |
| √ | root (the underlying root or stem) |
| ‖ | parallel passage (a synonymous or contrasted parallel) |
| † | the dagger: every passage where the word occurs is cited |
The 15 senses and sub-senses the full Brown-Driver-Briggs lexicon distinguishes for this word, in lexicon order (not ranked by frequency), with BDB’s own verbatim wording and sub-sense lettering. Shown in Hebrew script with BDB’s own scholarly abbreviations. The condensed entry is in the Lexicon Entry tab. See also the Forms in the corpus table below.
- 1. יְהוֹזָבָד servant & murderer of Joash of Judah 2 K 12:22 (𝔊 Ἰεζεβουθ) = 2 Ch 24:26 (𝔊 Ζωζαβεδ, Ἰωζαβεδ, Ἰωζαβεθ). e.g. 2 Kings 12:22
- 2. יוֹזָבָד three of David’s mighty men,
- a. 1 Ch 12:5; e.g. 1 Chronicles 12:5
- b. v 21; e.g. 1 Chronicles 12:21
- c. v 21 (𝔊 Ἰωζαβειθ, Ἰωζαβειδ). e.g. 1 Chronicles 12:21
- 3. יְהוֹזָבָד a Benjamite chief 2 Ch 17:18. e.g. 2 Chronicles 17:18
- 4. priests & Levites,
- a. יְהוֹזָבָד 1 Ch 26:4; e.g. 1 Chronicles 26:4
- b. יוֹזָבָד 2 Ch 31:13 (𝔊 Ἐζαβαθ, Ἰωαζαβαθ; 𝔊L Ἰωαζαβαδ); e.g. 2 Chronicles 31:13
- c. 35:9 (𝔊 Ἰωζαβαδ; 𝔊L as foreg.); e.g. 2 Chronicles 35:9
- d. Ezr 8:33; e.g. Ezra 8:33
- e. Ezr 10:22; e.g. Ezra 10:22
- f. Ezr 10:23; e.g. Ezra 10:23
- g. Ne 8:7; e.g. Nehemiah 8:7
- h. Ne 11:16; (d. f. g. & h. perhaps the same man). e.g. Nehemiah 11:16
Senses from the full Brown-Driver-Briggs lexicon (Brown, Driver, Briggs; Oxford 1906 — public domain), digitized via Sefaria, supplemented by the OpenScriptures HebrewLexicon (CC BY 4.0). Full attribution on Sources.
Word origin
n.pr.m. 𝔊 usually Ἰωζαβαδ (י׳ hath bestowed; cf. Palm. נבוזבד Vog 73; v. also זְבַדְיָהוּ, זַבְדִּיאֵל)—
— Brown-Driver-Briggs (Oxford 1906, public domain), digitized via Sefaria, supplemented by the OpenScriptures HebrewLexicon (CC BY 4.0). See Sources.
Derived from יהוזבד (Yᵉhôwzâbâd) (H3075) — Jehozabad.
Forms in the corpus
The 9 distinct written forms H3107 takes in the Hebrew Bible, most frequent first — each parse links to that state’s occurrences in the concordance. Hebrew forms include their vowel points and cantillation, so a single lemma takes many written forms.
| Form | Parsing | Example | Uses |
|---|---|---|---|
| וְ/יוֹזָבָ֖ד | Noun, Proper | 1 Chronicles 12:4 | 2 |
| וְ/יוֹזָבָ֔ד | Noun, Proper | 1 Chronicles 12:20 | 1 |
| וְ/יוֹזָבָ֜ד | Noun, Proper | Nehemiah 11:16 | 1 |
| וְ/יוֹזָבָ֤ד | Noun, Proper | 1 Chronicles 12:20 | 1 |
| וְ/יוֹזָבָד֙ | Noun, Proper | 2 Chronicles 31:13 | 1 |
| יוֹזָבָ֖ד | Noun, Proper | Ezra 10:22 | 1 |
| יוֹזָבָ֣ד | Noun, Proper | Ezra 10:23 | 1 |
| יוֹזָבָ֧ד | Noun, Proper | Ezra 8:33 | 1 |
| יוֹזָבָ֨ד | Noun, Proper | Nehemiah 8:7 | 1 |
Bible dictionary
Public-domain dictionary articles matched to this entry by name (Jozabad). A biblical name can be shared by more than one person or place, so an article may treat several.
Easton's Bible Dictionary · M. G. Easton, 1897
Whom Jehovah bestows. (1.) One of the Benjamite archers who joined David at Ziklag (1 Chr. 12:4).
(2.) A chief of the tribe of Manasseh (1 Chr. 12:20).
Smith's Bible Dictionary · William Smith, 1863
(Jehovah justifies).
+ A captain of the thousands of Manasseh, who deserted to David before the battle of Gilboa. (1 Chronicles 12:20) (B.C. 1053.) + A hero of Manasseh, like the preceding. (1 Chronicles 12:20) + A Levite in the reign of Hezekiah. (2 Chronicles 31:13) (B.C. 726.) + A chief Levite in the reign of Josiah. (2 Chronicles 35:9) + A Levite, son of Jeshua, in the days of Ezra. (Ezra 8:33) (B.C. 459.) Probably identical with No. 7. + A priest of the sons of Pashur, who had married a foreign wife. (Ezra 10:22) + A Levite among those who returned with Ezra and had married foreign wives. He is probably identical with Jozabad the Levite, (Nehemiah 8:7) and with Jozabad who presided over the outer work of the temple. (Nehemiah 11:16) (B.C. 459.)
Hitchcock's Bible Names Dictionary · Roswell D. Hitchcock, 1869
same as Josabad
Classic public-domain reference works; full attribution on Sources.
Septuagint verse parallels
This word appears in 7 verses that also exist in the Greek Old Testament (Septuagint), out of the 9 Hebrew verses it occurs in. You can read those verses in Greek by switching the Old Testament edition to the Septuagint.
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This is a verse-level parallel only — the same verses exist in both the Hebrew and Greek Old Testaments. No word-level Hebrew↔Greek correspondence is claimed: the data carries no such alignment, so no Greek word is shown as this Hebrew word’s translation. Coverage is not total — the Septuagint omits the deuterocanon and renumbers the Psalms, so some Hebrew verses have no direct Greek parallel.
