Reference: Jether
Easton
surplus; excellence. (1.) Father-in-law of Moses (Ex 4:18 marg.), called elsewhere Jethro (q.v.).
(2.) The oldest of Gideon's seventy sons (Jg 8:20).
(3.) The father of Amasa, David's general (1Ki 2:5,32); called Ithra (2Sa 17:25).
(4.) 1Ch 7:38.
(5.) 1Ch 2:32; one of Judah's posterity.
(6.) 1Ch 4:17.
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Moses departed and returned to Jethro his father-in-law and said to him: Please, let me go, that I may return to my brothers who are in Egypt, and see if they are still alive. Jethro said to Moses: Go in peace.
He said to Jether his firstborn: Rise up and kill them. But the youth would not draw his sword. He was afraid because he was still a youth.
Absalom put Amasa in Joab's place as commander of the army. Amasa's father was Ithra from the family of Ishmael, and his mother was Abigal, the daughter of Nahash and the sister of Joab's mother Zeruiah.
Remember what Joab did to me by killing the two commanders of Israel's armies, Abner son of Ner and Amasa son of Jether. You remember how he murdered them in time of peace. This was revenge for deaths they had caused in time of war. He killed innocent men. I bear the responsibility for what he did. I suffer the consequences.
Jehovah will punish Joab for those murders he committed without my father David's knowledge. Joab killed two innocent men who were better men than he: Abner, commander of the army of Israel, and Amasa, commander of the army of Judah.
The sons of Jada, Shammai's brother: Jether and Jonathan. Jether died without children.
The sons of Ezrah: Jether, Mered, Epher and Jalon. One of Mered's wives gave birth to Miriam, Shammai and Ishbah the father of Eshtemoa.
Fausets
1. Gideon's oldest son. Afraid as a youth to slay Zebah and Zalmunna at his father's bidding. Slain by Abimelech (Jg 8:20; 9:5).
2. Same as Ithra and Abigail. (See ITHRA; ABIGAIL.)
3. 1Ch 2:32.
4. 1Ch 4:17. Quaest. Hebrew in Paralipomena makes Ezra Amram, J. Aaron.
5. Ithran (1Ch 7:38).
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He said to Jether his firstborn: Rise up and kill them. But the youth would not draw his sword. He was afraid because he was still a youth.
He went to his father's house at Ophrah. There on top of a single stone he killed his seventy brothers, Gideon's sons. Gideon's youngest son Jotham hid and therefore was not killed.
The sons of Jada, Shammai's brother: Jether and Jonathan. Jether died without children.
Hastings
1. Father-in-law of Moses (Revised Version margin of Ex 4:18 Elohist), prob. a mistake for Jethro. 2. Eldest son of Gideon (Jg 8:20). 3. An Ishmaelite, father of Amasa (1Ki 2:5,32; 1Ch 2:17. See Ithra). 4. 5. Two men of Judah (1Ch 2:32; 4:17). 6. A man of Asher (1Ch 7:38); called in 1Ch 7:37 Ithran, the name of an Edomite clan (Ge 36:26).
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Moses departed and returned to Jethro his father-in-law and said to him: Please, let me go, that I may return to my brothers who are in Egypt, and see if they are still alive. Jethro said to Moses: Go in peace.
He said to Jether his firstborn: Rise up and kill them. But the youth would not draw his sword. He was afraid because he was still a youth.
Remember what Joab did to me by killing the two commanders of Israel's armies, Abner son of Ner and Amasa son of Jether. You remember how he murdered them in time of peace. This was revenge for deaths they had caused in time of war. He killed innocent men. I bear the responsibility for what he did. I suffer the consequences.
Jehovah will punish Joab for those murders he committed without my father David's knowledge. Joab killed two innocent men who were better men than he: Abner, commander of the army of Israel, and Amasa, commander of the army of Judah.
The sons of Jada, Shammai's brother: Jether and Jonathan. Jether died without children.
The sons of Ezrah: Jether, Mered, Epher and Jalon. One of Mered's wives gave birth to Miriam, Shammai and Ishbah the father of Eshtemoa.
Bezer, Hod, Shamma, Shilshah, Ithran and Beera. The sons of Jether: Jephunneh, Pispah and Ara.
Morish
Je'ther
1. Gideon's firstborn son. Jg 8:20.
2. An Ishmeelite, father of Amasa. 1Ki 2:5,32; 1Ch 2:17. He is called ITHRA, an Israelite, in 2Sa 17:25. He may have been an Ishmeelite by birth, and have become a proselyte.
3. Son of Jada, of the tribe of Judah. 1Ch 2:32.
4. Son of Ezra, of the tribe of Judah. 1Ch 4:17.
5. Descendant of Asher. 1Ch 7:38.
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He said to Jether his firstborn: Rise up and kill them. But the youth would not draw his sword. He was afraid because he was still a youth.
Absalom put Amasa in Joab's place as commander of the army. Amasa's father was Ithra from the family of Ishmael, and his mother was Abigal, the daughter of Nahash and the sister of Joab's mother Zeruiah.
Remember what Joab did to me by killing the two commanders of Israel's armies, Abner son of Ner and Amasa son of Jether. You remember how he murdered them in time of peace. This was revenge for deaths they had caused in time of war. He killed innocent men. I bear the responsibility for what he did. I suffer the consequences.
Jehovah will punish Joab for those murders he committed without my father David's knowledge. Joab killed two innocent men who were better men than he: Abner, commander of the army of Israel, and Amasa, commander of the army of Judah.
The sons of Jada, Shammai's brother: Jether and Jonathan. Jether died without children.
The sons of Ezrah: Jether, Mered, Epher and Jalon. One of Mered's wives gave birth to Miriam, Shammai and Ishbah the father of Eshtemoa.
Smith
Je'ther
(his excellence).
1. Jethro, the father-in-law of Moses.
(B.C. 1530.)
2. The first-born of Gideon's seventy sons.
(B.C. 1256.)
3. The father of Amasa, captain-general of Absalom's army. (B.C. 1023.) Jether is another form of ITHRA.
See Ithra
He is described in
as an Ishmaelite, which again is more likely to be correct than the "Israelite" of the Hebrew in
...
4. The son of Jada, a descendant of Hezron, of the tribe of Judah.
5. The son of Ezra.
6. The chief of a family of warriors of the line of Asher, and father of Jephunneh.
He is probably the same as ITHRAN in the preceding verse.
See Ithran
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Moses departed and returned to Jethro his father-in-law and said to him: Please, let me go, that I may return to my brothers who are in Egypt, and see if they are still alive. Jethro said to Moses: Go in peace.
He said to Jether his firstborn: Rise up and kill them. But the youth would not draw his sword. He was afraid because he was still a youth.
Later Ahithophel said to Absalom: Let me choose twelve thousand men. Tonight I will set out after David.
Absalom put Amasa in Joab's place as commander of the army. Amasa's father was Ithra from the family of Ishmael, and his mother was Abigal, the daughter of Nahash and the sister of Joab's mother Zeruiah.
The sons of Jada, Shammai's brother: Jether and Jonathan. Jether died without children.
The sons of Jada, Shammai's brother: Jether and Jonathan. Jether died without children.