yavesh · Jabesh

What it means

yavesh (יָבֵשׁ) is a Hebrew word of the Bible that means “Jabesh”.

A city of Gilead, east of the Jordan. Later King Saul delivered it from the sons of Ammon (1 Samuel 11). It is also the name of a man, the father of King Shallum (2 Kings 15:10).

How to say it

Approximate pronunciation. Vowels sound as in Spanish (a as in father, e as in bed, i as in machine, o as in note, u as in rule); the syllable in bold is stressed. The voice is your device's.

Related words

Words of the same family, by Strong’s numbering.

Where it appears

• Judges×5
• 1 Samuel×10
• 2 Samuel×3
• 2 Kings×3
• 1 Chronicles×3

• Judges 21:8

  And they said, “What one is there of the tribes of Israel that did not come up to YHWH at Mizpah?” And look, no man had come to the camp from Jabesh-gilead to the assembly.

• Judges 21:9

  When the people were counted, look, there was not there a man of the inhabitants of Jabesh-gilead.

• Judges 21:10

  So the community sent there twelve thousand men of the men of valor, and commanded them, saying, “Go and strike the inhabitants of Jabesh-gilead with the edge of the sword, with the women and the little ones.

• Judges 21:12

  And they found among the inhabitants of Jabesh-gilead four hundred young women, virgins, who had not known a man by lying with a male; and they brought them to the camp at Shiloh, which is in the land of Canaan.

• Judges 21:14

  And Benjamin returned at that time, and they gave them the women whom they had kept alive of the women of Jabesh-gilead; but even so they did not find enough for them.

• 1 Samuel 11:1

  Nahash the Ammonite went up and camped against Jabesh-gilead. All the men of Jabesh said to Nahash, “Make a covenant with us, and we will serve you.”

• 1 Samuel 11:3

  The elders of Jabesh said to him, “Hold off from us seven days, and let us send messengers through all the territory of Israel. Then if there is no one to save us, we will come out to you.”

• 1 Samuel 11:5

  And look, Saul was coming behind the oxen from the field, and Saul said, “What is wrong with the people that they are weeping?” And they told him the words of the men of Jabesh.

• 1 Samuel 11:9

  They said to the messengers who had come, “Thus you shall say to the men of Jabesh-gilead: ‘Tomorrow you will have salvation, when the sun is hot.’” The messengers came and told the men of Jabesh, and they rejoiced.

• 1 Samuel 11:10

  The men of Jabesh said, “Tomorrow we will come out to you, and you may do to us according to all that is good in your eyes.”

• 1 Samuel 31:11

  When the inhabitants of Jabesh-gilead heard about him what the Philistines had done to Saul,

• 1 Samuel 31:12

  all the valiant men arose and went all night and took the body of Saul and the bodies of his sons from the wall of Beth-shan; they came to Jabesh and burned them there.

• 1 Samuel 31:13

  They took their bones and buried them under the tamarisk in Jabesh, and fasted seven days.

• 2 Samuel 2:4

  Then the men of Judah came and anointed David there as king over the house of Judah. And they reported to David, saying, “It was the men of Jabesh-gilead who buried Saul.”

• 2 Samuel 2:5

  David sent messengers to the men of Jabesh-gilead and said to them, “Blessed are you by YHWH, for you have done this loyal love with your lord, with Saul, and buried him.

• 2 Samuel 21:12

  David went and took the bones of Saul and the bones of Jonathan his son from the lords of Jabesh-gilead, who had stolen them from the square of Beth-shan, where the Philistines had hanged them on the day the Philistines struck Saul on Gilboa.

• 2 Kings 15:10

  Shallum son of Jabesh conspired against him and struck him before the people and put him to death and reigned in his place.

• 2 Kings 15:13

  Shallum son of Jabesh became king in year thirty-nine of Uzziah king of Judah, and he reigned a full month in Samaria.

• 2 Kings 15:14

  Menahem son of Gadi went up from Tirzah and came to Samaria and struck Shallum son of Jabesh in Samaria and put him to death and reigned in his place.

• 1 Chronicles 10:11

  And all Jabesh-gilead heard all that the Philistines had done to Saul,

• 1 Chronicles 10:12

  and all the valiant men arose and took away the corpse of Saul and the corpses of his sons, and brought them to Jabesh; and they buried their bones under the oak in Jabesh, and fasted seven days.

And 3 more times.