chiding, or multiplying, of the Lord
Hitchcock's Bible Names Dictionary
JOIARIB.1. Ezr_8:16, one of the two teachers sent by Ezra to Iddo to ask for ministers for the Temple. 2. Neh_11:5, one of the chiefs of the province that dwelt in Jerusalem in Nehemiahs time. See also Jehoiarib.
Hastings' Dictionary of the Bible
Edited by James Hastings, D.D. Published in 1909
1. Ezr_8:16.
2. Neh_11:10; Neh_12:6; Neh_12:19.
3. Neh_11:5. (See JEHOIARIB.)
Fausset's Bible Dictionary
By Andrew Robert Fausset, co-Author of Jamieson, Fausset and Brown's 1888.
joi?a-rib (יויריב, yōyārı̄bh, ?Yahweh pleads? or ?contends?; compare JEHOIARIB):
(1) A ?teacher? of Ezra's time (Ezr_8:16).
(2) A Judahite (Neh_11:5).
(3) In Neh_11:10; Neh_12:6, Neh_12:19 = JEHOIARIB (which see).
International Standard Bible Encyclopedia
PRINTER 1915.
Joiarib
(Heb. Yoyarib', יוֹיָרַיב, a contraction of JEHOIARIB, occurring exclusively in Ezra and Nehemiah), the name of three or four persons.
1. (Sept. Ι᾿ωαρίβ v.r. Ι᾿ωρίβ.) A priest named (Neh_11:10) in connection with Jachin, and as father of Jedaiah (q.v.), but by some error; compare 1Ch_9:10, where he is called JEHOIARIB SEE JEHOIARIB (q.v.), well known as founder of one of the sacerdotal courses. SEE PRIEST.
2. (Sept. Ι᾿ωιαρίβ.) A descendant of Judah, son of Zechariah and father of Adaiah (Neh_11:5), apparently through Shelah. See SHILONI. B.C. considerably ante 536.
3. (Sept. Ι᾿ωιαρείβ, Ι᾿ωαρίβ.) One of the priests who returned from Babylon with Zerubbabel (Neh_12:6). He was the father of Mattenai, a contemporary with the high priest Joiakim (Neh_12:19). B.C. 536.
4. (Sept. Ι᾿ωαρείμ v.r. Ι᾿ωαρίμ.) A person mentioned in connection with Elnathan as a man of understanding (the others being called chief men), apparently among the priests, sent for by Ezra at the river of Ahava to devise means for obtaining a company of Levites to return with him to Jerusalem (Ezr_8:16). B.C. 459.
CYCLOPEDIA OF BIBLICAL, THEOLOGICAL AND ECCLESIASTICAL
press 1895.