sorrowful, hated
Hitchcock's Bible Names Dictionary
JOBAB.1. A son of Joktan in the genealogies (Gen_10:29, 1Ch_1:23), and therefore probably an Arabian geographical name. Glaser identifies Jobab with YHYBB (likely Yuhaybab), a tribe mentioned in the Sabæan inscriptions. Sprenger through the LXX [Note: Septuagint.] form Iobor relates it to Wabâr, a considerable region in S. Arabia. 2. A king of Edom (Gen_36:33 f., 1Ch_1:44 f.), confused, in the apocryphal appendix to the LXX [Note: Septuagint.] version of Job, with Job (see Job, § 1). 3. A king of Madon, ally of Jabin of Hazor against Joshua (Jos_11:1). 4, 5. Name of two Benjamites (1Ch_8:9; 1Ch_8:18).
W. M. Nesbit.
Hastings' Dictionary of the Bible
Edited by James Hastings, D.D. Published in 1909
1. Last of Joktan's sons (Gen_10:29; 1Ch_1:23). Ptolemy mentions the Jobaritoe (perhaps Jobabitae ought to be read) among the Arabs.
2. King of Edom (Gen_36:33-34); son of Zerah of Bozrah; successor of Bela, first king. His association in kindred with Eliphaz (2) gives color to the conjecture that Jobab equates to Job.
3. Jos_11:1.
4. 1Ch_8:9.
Fausset's Bible Dictionary
By Andrew Robert Fausset, co-Author of Jamieson, Fausset and Brown's 1888.
Jo'bab. (a desert).
1. The last, in order, of the sons of Joktan. Gen_10:29; 1Ch_1:23.
2. One of the "kings" of Edom. Gen_3:34; 1Ch_1:44-45.
3. King of Madon; one of the northern chieftains, who attempted to oppose Joshua's conquest, and were routed by him at Meron. Jos_11:1 only.
4. Head of a Benjamite house. 1Ch_8:9.
Smith's Bible Dictionary
By Dr. William Smith.Published in 1863
jō?bab (יובב, yōbhābh, perhaps ?howling?; Ἰωβάβ, Iōbáb):
(1) ?Son? of Joktan (Gen_10:29; 1Ch_1:23). See TABLE OF NATIONS.
(2) An Edomite king (Gen_36:33, Gen_36:14; 1Ch_1:44, 1Ch_1:45).
(3) King of Madon (Jos_11:1).
(4) 1Ch_8:9; and (5) 1Ch_8:18, Benjamites.
The name is confused with that of Job in Septuagint of Job_42:17.
International Standard Bible Encyclopedia
PRINTER 1915.
Jobab
(Heb. Yobab', יוֹבָב, probably dweller in the desert, from the Arabic; Sept. Ι᾿ωβάβ, but in 1Ch_1:23, τὸν Εὐἱ καὶ τὸν ᾿Ωράμ, v.r. simply Ι᾿ωάβ), the name of several men.
1. The last-named of the sons of Joktan, and founder of a tribe in Arabia (Gen_10:29; 1Ch_1:23), B.C. post 2414. Bochart compares (Phaleg, 2, 29) the Jobaritoe (Ιωβαρῖται) of Ptolemy (6, 7, 24), a people on the eastern coast of Arabia, near the Socalitae, which, after Salmasius, he supposes to be for Jobabitoe; so also Michaelis (Spicileg. 2, 303; Supplem. 1013).
2. Son of Zerah of Bozrah, king of Edom after Bela and before Husham (Gen_36:33-34; 1Ch_1:44-45), B.C. prob. long ante 1617. The supposition that he was identical with the patriarch Job rests only upon the apocryphal addition to the book of Job in the Sept., and is utterly unworthy of credit. SEE JOB.
3. The Canaanitish king of Madon, one of those whose aid Jabin invoked in the struggle with the Israelites (Jos_11:1), B.C. 1617.
4. The first-named of the sons of Shaharaim by one of his wives, Hodesh or Baara of the tribe of Benjamin, although apparently born in Moab (1Ch_8:9), B.C. cir. 1612.
5. One of the sons of Elpaal, a chief of Benjamin, at Jerusalem (1Ch_8:18), B.C. probably cir. 588.
CYCLOPEDIA OF BIBLICAL, THEOLOGICAL AND ECCLESIASTICAL
press 1895.