Hebrew proper noun (a place) · H3003
יָבֵשׁ
Yabeshyaw-bashe'
Jabesh (Gilead)
24 uses in the Hebrew text, one for each word STEP Bible has tagged with this key
Concordance spelling: Yâbêsh
Word page · Part of the concordance, one page for every word of the Hebrew and Greek text. Strong's H3003is this word's number in James Strong's 1890 index of the King James Bible.
- 5 of 39Old Testament books
- 15spellings
The definition in full
Strong's key (1890) · H3003
Jobesh, the name of an Israelite and of a place in Palestine
The King James renders it: Jobesh (-Gilead).
James Strong, The Exhaustive Concordance of the Bible (1890), public domain. Strong indexed the King James text, and this site quotes his entry as that index.
Summary
Yabesh is rendered "Jabesh (Gilead)". It stands 24 times in the Hebrew text, across five books.
- Ten of the uses stand in 1 Samuel, more than in any other book.
- Its first use in canonical order opens the ledger below.Judges 21:8So they asked, “Which one of the tribes of Israel failed to come up before the LORD at Mizpah?” And, in fact, no one from Jabesh-gilead had come to the camp for the assembly.
- The Greek text spells it fifteen different ways.
The first use
So they asked, “Which one of the tribes of Israel failed to come up before the LORD at Mizpah?” And, in fact, no one from Jabesh-gilead had come to the camp for the assembly.
Judges 21:8מִיָּבֵ֥ישׁ
The first use, in the order of the Old Testament's books.
Where the word stands
Ten of the word's twenty-four uses are in 1 Samuel.
What the word means
Each meaning, and the words it is translated by
How the Greek text is glossed, word by word
- Jabesh19
- Jabesh towards2
- at Jabesh towards1
- from Jabesh1
- in Jabesh1
The words built on the same word-part
Each word below begins with the same letters this one begins with. A shared word-part shows a family. It does not settle what any one of them means, so each word carries its own uses on its own page. Scholars call that shared part the stem.
Other numbers on this spelling
Strong gave these words the same spelling and different numbers, so the site counts and defines them apart.
The words it stands beside
All 24, in canonical order
Every use, in order
Every use, grouped by book, with its verse.
15 spellings and their grammar
STEP Bible tags every word of the Hebrew and Greek text with its spelling and its grammar. Both lists below count the rows printed underneath, written out in English, with the code beside each one as it was tagged.
How it is spelled
- יָבֵ֣ישׁ7
- יָבֵישׁ֙2
- יָבֵ֖ישׁ2
- יָבֵ֣שׁ2
- בְּיָבֵ֔שׁ1
- בְּיָבֵ֑שָׁה1
- יָבֵ֗ישׁ1
- יָבֵ֔ישׁ1
- יָבֵֽישׁ׃1
- יָבֵ֑ישָׁה1
- יָבֵ֥שׁ1
- יָבֵ֤שׁ1
and 3 more spellings in the ledger below.
The grammar of each form
- proper noun (a name)19HNpl
- proper noun (a name) + directional ending (“toward”)2HNpl/Sd
- preposition + proper noun (a name)2HR/Npl
- preposition + proper noun (a name) + directional ending (“toward”)1HR/Npl/Sd
Judges
five uses
So they asked, “Which one of the tribes of Israel failed to come up before the LORD at Mizpah?” And, in fact, no one from Jabesh-gilead had come to the camp for the assembly.
- מִיָּבֵ֥ישׁmiyaveishpreposition + proper noun (a name)tagged: from Jabesh
For when the people were counted, none of the residents of Jabesh-gilead were there.
- יָבֵ֥שׁyaveshproper noun (a name)tagged: Jabesh
So the congregation sent 12,000 of their most valiant men and commanded them: “Go and put to the sword those living in Jabesh-gilead, including women and children.
- יָבֵ֤שׁyaveshproper noun (a name)tagged: Jabesh
So they found among the inhabitants of Jabesh-gilead four hundred young women who had not had relations with a man, and they brought them to the camp at Shiloh in the land of Canaan.
- יָבֵ֣ישׁyaveishproper noun (a name)tagged: Jabesh
And at that time the Benjamites returned and were given the women who were spared from Jabesh-gilead. But there were not enough women for all of them.
- יָבֵ֣שׁyaveshproper noun (a name)tagged: Jabesh
1 Samuel
ten uses
Soon Nahash the Ammonite came up and laid siege to Jabesh-gilead. All the men of Jabesh said to him, “Make a treaty with us, and we will serve you.”
- יָבֵ֣שׁyaveshproper noun (a name)tagged: Jabesh
- יָבֵישׁ֙yaveishproper noun (a name)tagged: Jabesh
“Hold off for seven days,” replied the elders of Jabesh, “and let us send messengers throughout Israel. If there is no one to save us, we will surrender to you.”
- יָבֵ֗ישׁyaveishproper noun (a name)tagged: Jabesh
Just then Saul was returning from the field, behind his oxen. “What troubles the people?” asked Saul. “Why are they weeping?” And they relayed to him the words of the men from Jabesh.
- יָבֵֽישׁ׃yaveishproper noun (a name)tagged: Jabesh
So they said to the messengers who had come, “Tell the men of Jabesh-gilead: ‘Deliverance will be yours tomorrow by the time the sun is hot.’” And when the messengers relayed this to the men of Jabesh, they rejoiced.
- יָבֵ֣ישׁyaveishproper noun (a name)tagged: Jabesh
- יָבֵ֖ישׁyaveishproper noun (a name)tagged: Jabesh
Then the men of Jabesh said to Nahash, “Tomorrow we will come out, and you can do with us whatever seems good to you.”
- יָבֵ֔ישׁyaveishproper noun (a name)tagged: Jabesh
When the people of Jabesh-gilead heard what the Philistines had done to Saul,
- יָבֵ֣ישׁyaveishproper noun (a name)tagged: Jabesh
all their men of valor set out, journeyed all night, and retrieved the bodies of Saul and his sons from the wall of Beth-shan. When they arrived at Jabesh, they burned the bodies there.
- יָבֵ֔שָׁהyaveshahproper noun (a name) + directional ending (“toward”)tagged: Jabesh towards
Then they took their bones and buried them under the tamarisk tree in Jabesh, and they fasted seven days.
- בְּיָבֵ֑שָׁהbeyaveshahpreposition + proper noun (a name) + directional ending (“toward”)tagged: at Jabesh towards
2 Samuel
three uses
Then the men of Judah came to Hebron, and there they anointed David king over the house of Judah. And they told David, “It was the men of Jabesh-gilead who buried Saul.”
- יָבֵ֣ישׁyaveishproper noun (a name)tagged: Jabesh
So David sent messengers to the men of Jabesh-gilead to tell them, “The LORD bless you, because you showed this kindness to Saul your lord when you buried him.
- יָבֵ֣ישׁyaveishproper noun (a name)tagged: Jabesh
he went and took the bones of Saul and his son Jonathan from the men of Jabesh-gilead, who had stolen them from the public square of Beth-shan where the Philistines had hung the bodies after they had struck down Saul at Gilboa.
- יָבֵ֣ישׁyaveishproper noun (a name)tagged: Jabesh
2 Kings
three uses
Then Shallum son of Jabesh conspired against Zechariah, struck him down and killed him in front of the people, and reigned in his place.
- יָבֵ֔שׁyaveshproper noun (a name)tagged: Jabesh
In the thirty-ninth year of Uzziah’s reign over Judah, Shallum son of Jabesh became king, and he reigned in Samaria one full month.
- יָבֵישׁ֙yaveishproper noun (a name)tagged: Jabesh
Then Menahem son of Gadi went up from Tirzah to Samaria, struck down and killed Shallum son of Jabesh, and reigned in his place.
- יָבֵ֖ישׁyaveishproper noun (a name)tagged: Jabesh
1 Chronicles
three uses
When the people of Jabesh-gilead heard about everything the Philistines had done to Saul,
- יָבֵ֣ישׁyaveishproper noun (a name)tagged: Jabesh
all their men of valor set out and retrieved the bodies of Saul and his sons and brought them to Jabesh. And they buried their bones under the oak in Jabesh and fasted seven days.
- יָבֵ֑ישָׁהyaveishahproper noun (a name) + directional ending (“toward”)tagged: Jabesh towards
- בְּיָבֵ֔שׁbeyaveshpreposition + proper noun (a name)tagged: in Jabesh
Where it leads
How the numbers are counted
Every count on this page comes from STEP Bible's tagged Hebrew and Greek text, the same text the ledger prints. A use is counted once each time the tagging marks a word with this key.
Spellings are counted as the Greek text spells them, with the sentence's own punctuation taken off the word first, so a form that ends a clause is not counted as a second spelling.
The words it stands beside are the nouns, verbs and adjectives immediately before or after it, counted in every verse where the word stands. The article, the conjunctions and the prepositions are left out, because they stand beside every word.
The family is read from the lexicon by the stem the two words share, with the accents off, and a person or a place named on the stem is left out.