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Brown-Driver-Briggs /Thayer Dictionary - יָבֵשׁ
יָבֵשׁ
H3003
Transliteration: Yâbêsh
Pronunciation: yaw-bashe'
Definition: Jobesh
Original: יבישׁ יבשׁ Transliteration: yâbêsh yâbêysh Phonetic: yaw-bashe'
BDB Definition:
Jabesh = "dry"- a town in the territory of Gilead; according to Eusebius, it is beyond the Jordan, 6 miles (10 kilometers) from Pella, on the mountain road to Gerasa; site unknown but may be modern 'Wadi Yabes' (noun proper locative)
- father of Shallum, the 15th king of the northern kingdom (noun proper masculine)