Joab
יוֹאָב · yo.av · H3097I“paternity; voluntary” Hitchcock's 18692 mentions in 2 books, most in Ezra (1)
Who he was
Joab is mentioned in Ezra 2:6 and Nehemiah 7:11 as the ancestor of a family that returned to Judah from Babylonian exile. The descendants of Joab are listed among the returnees who settled in Jerusalem and the surrounding towns. The count of Joab's descendants varies slightly between the two passages, with Ezra recording 2,812 and Nehemiah listing 2,818.
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Family
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Every mention
2 references, counted from STEPBible, Tyndale House Cambridge · CC BY 4.0 · verse text: World English Bible (public domain)
Ezra 1 mention
Nehemiah 1 mention
What the dictionary says
Jehovah is his father.
Easton's Bible Dictionary (1897)
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- STEPBible TIPNR · Translators Individualised Proper Names with all References · CC BY 4.0 · github.com/STEPBible/STEPBible-Data
- Hitchcock's Bible Names Dictionary (1869) · Public domain