lifting up; profiting; taking away slander
Hitchcock's Bible Names Dictionary
JOELAH.A warrior who joined David at Ziklag (1Ch_12:7).
Hastings' Dictionary of the Bible
Edited by James Hastings, D.D. Published in 1909
1Ch_12:7.
Fausset's Bible Dictionary
By Andrew Robert Fausset, co-Author of Jamieson, Fausset and Brown's 1888.
jṓ-ē?la (יועאלה, yō‛ē'lāh, perhaps = יועלה, yō‛ēlāh, ?may he avail!?): One of David's recruits at Ziklag (1Ch_12:7 (Hebrew 8)); a Benjamite or perhaps a Judean (see Curtis, Chronicles, 195 f).
International Standard Bible Encyclopedia
PRINTER 1915.
Joelah
(Heb. Yoëlah', יוֹעֵאלָה, derivation uncertain; Sept. Ι᾿ωηλά v.r. Ι᾿ελία, Vulg. Joëla), one of the two sons of Jeroham of Gedor, mentioned along with the brave Benjamite archers and others who joined David's fortunes at Ziklag (1Ch_12:7). B.C. 1055.
CYCLOPEDIA OF BIBLICAL, THEOLOGICAL AND ECCLESIASTICAL
press 1895.