יָשׁוּב
Jashub
BDB lists 3 entries for ‘Jashub’ fuller range ↓
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 H3437 appears — 3 distinct verses across 3 books. 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.
Numbers 1 verse
1 Chronicles 1 verse
Ezra 1 verse
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.
The Hebrew name ישוב centers on the idea of “Jashub.” It is rare — just 3 verses in the entire Hebrew Bible. The word gravitates to Numbers (33%), then 1 Chronicles and Ezra. Debuting at Numbers 26:24, it then recurs through the corpus. Dig into 3-verse concordance and the renderings breakdown below.
Gloss history
Strong's 1890 vs modern scholarship
About this word
Strong's H3437 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 →
- 3
- distinct verses
- The word appears in 3 distinct verses.
- 3 / 39
- OT books
- The word appears in 3 of 39 Old Testament books.
- #3,696
- by frequency
- Top 5000 most frequent Hebrew words (rank 3,696 of 8,640 Hebrew words by occurrence).
View all 3 occurrences in the concordance →
Most concentrated in
- Numbers 1 verse 33%
- 1 Chronicles 1 verse 33%
- Ezra 1 verse 33%
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 3 distinct verses.
- Writings (Ketuvim) 2 verses · 67%
- Torah (Pentateuch) 1 verse · 33%
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).
BDB lists this Strong’s number as 2 distinct words (homographs). Each count above pools all of them and is not split by sense — see the Senses section below. A low-frequency rendering may belong to a different one of those words, not the primary meaning.
- King James Version†: Jashub 3×
- American Standard Version†: Jashub 3×
- Berean Standard Bible†: Jashub 3×
- unfoldingWord Literal Text†: Jashub 3×
King James Version Public Domain
Renders H3437 across 3† tagged occurrences — most commonly:
American Standard Version Public Domain
Renders H3437 across 3† tagged occurrences — most commonly:
Berean Standard Bible Public Domain
Renders H3437 across 3† tagged occurrences — most commonly:
unfoldingWord Literal Text CC BY-SA 4.0
Renders H3437 across 3† tagged occurrences — most commonly:
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 2 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. in Issachar Nu 26:24 (P) 1 Ch 7:1 Qr (Kt ישיב). e.g. Numbers 26:24
- 2. one with foreign wife Ezr 10:29.—Is 7:3 v. שְׁאָר יָשׁוּב. e.g. Ezra 10:29
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. usually Ιασουβ;—
— Brown-Driver-Briggs (Oxford 1906, public domain), digitized via Sefaria, supplemented by the OpenScriptures HebrewLexicon (CC BY 4.0). See Sources.
Derived from שוב (shûwb) (H7725) — to return.
Jastrow Dictionary
A second Hebrew/Aramaic lexicon for comparison, covering Aramaic and post-biblical (Talmudic, Targumic, Midrashic) usage that the biblical-Hebrew BDB does not. Matched by lemma rather than by Strong’s number, so a lemma may carry more than one Jastrow headword (shown separately below), and the entries cover usage well beyond the Bible.
יִשּׁוּב
- (יָשַׁב)
- 1. settlement, inhabited land, opp. מדבר or ים; cultivation, social world, civilization; public welfare. Koh. R. to I, 15; Ruth. R. to I, 17 אם אין אדם מתקן ביי׳ וכ׳ if man does not prepare provision in the inhabited settlement (this world), what will he have to eat in the desert (the hereafter)?—Y. B. Kam. V, end, 5ᵃ, v. אָוָוז. Ber. 31ᵃ, v. יָשַׁב. Ib. 58ᵇ הרואה בתי … ביִשּׁוּבָן he who sees Israelitish places in their inhabitable condition (restoration), opp. בחורבנן. Ib. עתיד הקב"ה להחזירו ליִשּׁוּבוֹ the Lord will restore it again. Tam. 29ᵇ; B. Kam. 80ᵇ משום י׳ א"י in order to maintain the cultivation of Palestine. Y. B. Bath. II, end, 13ᶜ י׳ עולם בבורות social welfare depends on wells; באילנות on trees. Kidd. I, 10 אינו מן הי׳ does not belong to the civilized world. Gen. R. s. 35 בני אדם של י׳ civilized (polite) people; a. fr.
- 2. (with or without דעת) ease of mind, calmness. Gen. R. s. 19 בי׳ הדעת באת עליו she came to him with deliberation (logical arguments). Y. Ned. I, 36ᵈ bot.; Num. R. s. 10 מתיך י׳ (הדעת) in a calm state of mind, opp. אקפדה; a. fr.
A Dictionary of the Targumim, the Talmud Babli and Yerushalmi, and the Midrashic Literature (Marcus Jastrow; London, Luzac, 1903) — Public Domain. Digitized via Sefaria. Digitized via Sefaria. Full attribution on Sources.
Forms in the corpus
The 4 distinct written forms H3437 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| יָשׁ֖וּב | Noun, Proper | Ezra 10:29 | 1 |
| יָשׁ֥וּב | Noun, Proper | 1 Chronicles 7:1 | 1 |
| ישיב | Noun, Proper | 1 Chronicles 7:1 | 1 |
| לְ/יָשׁ֕וּב | Noun, Proper | Numbers 26:24 | 1 |
Same root — word family
Other BDB entries built from the same root as H3437, grouped by Strong’s listed origin. These share a root / origin per the lexicon — not necessarily a shared meaning. Each links to that word’s own entry.
Derives from
Shares the same root
- משובה mᵉshûwbâh H4878 apostasy
- שובב shôwbâb H7726 backsliding
- שובב shôwbêb H7728 backsliding
- שובה shûwbâh H7729 withdrawal
- שיבה shîybâh H7870 restoration
- תוב tûwb H8421 to return
- תשובה tᵉshûwbâh H8666 answer
Proper names from this root
People and places named from this root — a name, not an additional meaning of the word.
- יושב חסד Yûwshab Cheçed H3142 Jushab-hesed
- ישבי לחם Yâshubîy Lechem H3433 Jashubi-lehem
- ישבעם Yâshobʻâm H3434 Jashobeam
- משובב Mᵉshôwbâb H4877 Meshobab
- ישבי Yâshubîy H3432 Jashubites
Compare all same-root words → Showing 4 of 14 — not the complete family. 5 of the same-root words are proper names (people or places). They share a root, not necessarily a meaning.
Bible dictionary
Public-domain dictionary articles matched to this entry by name (Jashub). 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
Returner. (1.) The third of Issachar's four sons (1 Chr. 7:1); called also Job (Gen. 46:13).
(2.) Ezra 10:29.
Smith's Bible Dictionary · William Smith, 1863
(he turns).
+ The third son of Issachar, and founder of the family of the Jashubites. (Numbers 26:24; 1 Chronicles 7:1) (B.C. 1706.) + One of the sons of Bani, who had to put away his foreign wife. (Ezra 10:29) (B.C. 459.)
Hitchcock's Bible Names Dictionary · Roswell D. Hitchcock, 1869
a returning; a controversy; a dwelling place
Classic public-domain reference works; full attribution on Sources.
Septuagint verse parallels
This word appears in 3 verses that also exist in the Greek Old Testament (Septuagint), out of the 3 Hebrew verses it occurs in. You can read those verses in Greek by switching the Old Testament edition to the Septuagint.
Read these verses in the Septuagint
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.
