Hebrew proper noun (a person) · H3503
יִתְרוֹ
Yithroyith-ro'
Jethro
9 uses in the Hebrew text, one for each word STEP Bible has tagged with this key
Concordance spelling: Yithrôw
Word page · Part of the concordance, one page for every word of the Hebrew and Greek text. Strong's H3503is this word's number in James Strong's 1890 index of the King James Bible.
- 1 of 39Old Testament books
- 7spellings
The definition in full
Strong's key (1890) · H3503
Jethro, Moses' father-in-law
The King James renders it: Jethro. Compare H3500 (יֶתֶר).
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
Yithro is rendered "Jethro". It stands 9 times in the Hebrew text, across one book.
- Nine of the uses stand in Exodus, more than in any other book.
- Its first use in canonical order opens the ledger below.Exodus 3:1Meanwhile, Moses was shepherding the flock of his father-in-law Jethro, the priest of Midian. He led the flock to the far side of the wilderness and came to Horeb, the mountain of God.
- The Greek text spells it seven different ways.
The first use
Meanwhile, Moses was shepherding the flock of his father-in-law Jethro, the priest of Midian. He led the flock to the far side of the wilderness and came to Horeb, the mountain of God.
Exodus 3:1יִתְר֥וֹ
The first use, in the order of the Old Testament's books.
Where the word stands
Nine of the word's nine uses are in Exodus.
What the word means
Each meaning, and the words it is translated by
How the Greek text is glossed, word by word
- Jethro9
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.
The words it stands beside
All 9, in canonical order
Every use, in order
Every use, grouped by book, with its verse.
7 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
- יִתְר֨וֹ3
- יִתְר֥וֹ1
- יִתְר֛וֹ1
- יִתְרוֹ֙1
- יִתְר֖וֹ1
- יִתְר֔וֹ1
- יִתְרוֹ֒1
The grammar of each form
- proper noun (a name)9HNpm
Exodus
nine uses
Meanwhile, Moses was shepherding the flock of his father-in-law Jethro, the priest of Midian. He led the flock to the far side of the wilderness and came to Horeb, the mountain of God.
- יִתְר֥וֹyitroproper noun (a name)tagged: Jethro
Then Moses went back to his father-in-law Jethro and said to him, “Please let me return to my brothers in Egypt to see if they are still alive.” “Go in peace,” Jethro replied.
- יִתְר֛וֹyitroproper noun (a name)tagged: Jethro
Now Moses’ father-in-law Jethro, the priest of Midian, heard about all that God had done for Moses and His people Israel, and how the LORD had brought Israel out of Egypt.
- יִתְר֨וֹyitroproper noun (a name)tagged: Jethro
After Moses had sent back his wife Zipporah, his father-in-law Jethro had received her,
- יִתְרוֹ֙yitroproper noun (a name)tagged: Jethro
Moses’ father-in-law Jethro, along with Moses’ wife and sons, came to him in the desert, where he was encamped at the mountain of God.
- יִתְר֨וֹyitroproper noun (a name)tagged: Jethro
He sent word to Moses, “I, your father-in-law Jethro, am coming to you with your wife and her two sons.”
- יִתְר֖וֹyitroproper noun (a name)tagged: Jethro
And Jethro rejoiced over all the good things the LORD had done for Israel, whom He had rescued from the hand of the Egyptians.
- יִתְר֔וֹyitroproper noun (a name)tagged: Jethro
Jethro declared, “Blessed be the LORD, who has delivered you from the hand of the Egyptians and of Pharaoh, and who has delivered the people from the hand of the Egyptians.
- יִתְרוֹ֒yitroproper noun (a name)tagged: Jethro
Then Moses’ father-in-law Jethro brought a burnt offering and sacrifices to God, and Aaron came with all the elders of Israel to eat bread with Moses’ father-in-law in the presence of God.
- יִתְר֨וֹyitroproper noun (a name)tagged: Jethro
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.