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 Nehemiah — 2 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.
Nehemiah
- Nehemiah 8:7 יוֹזָבָ֨ד n Proper Also Jeshua, and Bani, and Sherebiah, Jamin, Akkub, Shabbethai, Hodiah, Maaseiah, Kelita, Azariah, Jozabad, Hanan, Pelaiah, and the Levites, caused the people to understand the law: and the people [stood] in their place.
- Nehemiah 11:16 וְ/יוֹזָבָ֜ד conj + n Proper and Shabbethai and Jozabad, of the chiefs of the Levites, who had the oversight of the outward business of the house of God;
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.
