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1 Chronicles 27:24
“Joab the son of Zeruiah began to number, but he finished not, because there fell wrath for it against Israel; neither was the number put in the account of the chronicles of king David.” (KJV)
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Lexical meaning
H3097 · Hebrew
- Definition
- Joab, the name of three Israelites
- Derivation
- from H3068 (יְהֹוָה) and H1 (אָב); Jehovah-fathered;
- KJV renderings
- Joab.
- Grammar
- יוֹאָ֨ב — proper noun
- Usage
- Occurs 145 times in the Hebrew Bible.1 Samuel 26:62 Samuel 2:132 Samuel 2:142 Samuel 2:142 Samuel 2:18
Theological interpretation (AI)
The card on the left shows lexical data from published sources. Interpretation is separate: ask the Companion to explain how traditions read יוֹאָב here.
Hebrew text: Westminster Leningrad Codex (public domain). Morphology & lemmas: Open Scriptures Hebrew Bible, CC BY 4.0 (hb.openscriptures.org). Lexicon: Strong's Hebrew Dictionary (1894, public domain; JSON edition © Open Scriptures, CC BY-SA). Verse numbers follow the Hebrew text, which occasionally differs from English Bibles.