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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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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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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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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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Smith

Je'ther

(his excellence).

1. Jethro, the father-in-law of Moses.

Ex 4:18

(B.C. 1530.)

2. The first-born of Gideon's seventy sons.

Jg 8:20

(B.C. 1256.)

3. The father of Amasa, captain-general of Absalom's army. (B.C. 1023.) Jether is another form of ITHRA.

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2Sa 17:25

He is described in

1Ch 2:17

as an Ishmaelite, which again is more likely to be correct than the "Israelite" of the Hebrew in

2Sa 17:1

...

4. The son of Jada, a descendant of Hezron, of the tribe of Judah.

1Ch 2:32

5. The son of Ezra.

1Ch 2:32

6. The chief of a family of warriors of the line of Asher, and father of Jephunneh.

1Ch 7:38

He is probably the same as ITHRAN in the preceding verse.

See Ithran

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