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Jashub

Holman Bible Dictionary

(jay' sshuhb) Personal name meaning, “He turns to” or “He returns.” The name is found in several Near Eastern cultures. 1. Clan leader in tribe of Issachar (Numbers 26:24 ). Genesis 46:13 names him Job 2:1 . Man with foreign wife condemned by Ezra as bringing temptation to foreign worship into the community (Ezra 10:29 ). 3 . Part of name of Isaiah's son (Isaiah 7:3 ). See Shear-jashub. 4. Some interpreters see a town named Jashub in Joshua 17:7 , a border town of the tribe of Manasseh (REB). This would be modern Jasuf, eight miles south of Shechem.