Jaakan
Jaakan was an ancestor of the Bene-Jaakan and is identified with Jakan, a descendant of Ezer the Horite.
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Jaala
Jaala was a Nethinim whose descendants returned from the Babylonian captivity with Zerubbabel. The name is also written Ja-alah.
Jaalah
Jaalah was one of the families or persons whose descendants returned from the Babylonian captivity. The name means “wild goat.”
Jaalam
Jaalam was the second son of Esau and Aholibamah and became a chief of an Edomite tribe.
Jaare-oregim
Jaare-oregim is the name given in 2 Samuel 21:19 to a Bethlehemite associated with Elhanan. The wording is probably corrupt, since “oregim” means “weavers” and appears to have been repeated from the surrounding text; the parallel passage reads Jair.
Jaareoregim
Jaareoregim is the name given in 2 Samuel 21:19 to a Bethlehemite and father of Elhanan. The parallel account in 1 Chronicles calls the father Jair and omits “Oregim,” suggesting a textual variation.
JAARESHIAH
Jaareshiah was a Benjamite, called the son of Jeroham in 1 Chronicles 8:27. The meaning of his name is uncertain.
Jaasau
Jaasau was an Israelite of the family of Bani who had married a foreign wife and renounced the marriage after the return from exile.
Jaasiel
Jaasiel was a Benjamite leader and one of David’s warriors. He is probably the same man called Jasiel, a Mezobaite, in the list of David’s mighty men.
Jaaz-aniah
Jaaz-aniah is the name of several men in the Old Testament, including a Rechabite leader, an idol-worshiper seen by Ezekiel, one of the men in Ezekiel’s temple vision, and a Judean captain after Jerusalem’s fall.
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