Heber in the Bible

Meaning: one that passes; anger

Exact Match

Now Heber the Kenite had moved away from the Kenites, the descendants of Hobab, Moses' father-in-law. He lived near the great tree in Zaanannim near Kedesh.

Verse ConceptsBrothersTentsFathers In LawsOaksBrothers in law

Now Sisera ran away on foot to the tent of Jael, wife of Heber the Kenite, for King Jabin of Hazor and the family of Heber the Kenite had made a peace treaty.

Verse ConceptsEscaping, Physical ThingsExamples Of EscapingNomadsNamed WivesTime Of Peace

Then Jael wife of Heber took a tent peg in one hand and a hammer in the other. She crept up on him, drove the tent peg through his temple into the ground while he was asleep from exhaustion, and he died.

Verse ConceptsTentsTirednessHammersNailsPegsSharp ToolsTired In FlightKilling Named Individuals

The most rewarded of women should be Jael, the wife of Heber the Kenite! She should be the most rewarded of women who live in tents.

Verse ConceptsExcellent WomenBlessed By GodBlessing Others

Thematic Bible



And the sons of Asher: Jimnah and Ishvah and Ishvi and Beriah, and Sarah, their sister; and the sons of Beriah: Heber and Malchiel.

The son of Serug, the son of Reu, the son of Peleg, the son of Eber, the son of Shelah,

Of the sons of Beriah: of Heber, the family of the Heberites: of Malchiel, the family of the Malchielites:

And the sons of Beriah: Heber and Malchiel, who was the father of Birzaith. And Heber was the father of Japhlet and Shomer and Hotham and Shua, their sister.


But Sisera went in flight on foot to the tent of Jael, the wife of Heber the Kenite; for there was peace between Jabin, king of Hazor, and the family of Heber the Kenite.

Now Heber the Kenite, separating himself from the rest of the Kenites, from the children of Hobab, the brother-in-law of Moses, had put up his tent as far away as the oak-tree in Zaanannim, by Kedesh.

Then Jael, Heber's wife, took a tent-pin and a hammer and went up to him quietly, driving the pin into his head, and it went through his head into the earth, for he was in a deep sleep from weariness; and so he came to his end.

Blessings be on Jael, more than on all women! Blessings greater than on any in the tents!


And their brothers, the men of their family: Michael and Meshullam and Sheba and Jorai and Jacan and Zia and Eber, seven of them.


And Ishpan and Eber and Eliel

And Zebadiah and Meshullam and Hizki and Heber


And his wife, a woman of the tribe of Judah, became the mother of Jered, the father of Gedor, and Heber, the father of Soco, and Jekuthiel, the father of Zanoah.


References

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Easton

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Basic English, produced by Mr C. K. Ogden of the Orthological Institute - public domain