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Hitchcock's Bible Names Dictionary
JETHETH.An Edomite clan (Gen_36:40 = 1Ch_1:51).
Hastings' Dictionary of the Bible
Edited by James Hastings, D.D. Published in 1909
Gen_36:40; 1Ch_1:51. From an Arabic root "a nail" or "tent pin," symbolizing stability; "a prince" (Ezr_9:8; Isa_22:23).
Fausset's Bible Dictionary
By Andrew Robert Fausset, co-Author of Jamieson, Fausset and Brown's 1888.
Je'theth. (a nail). One of the "dukes," who came of Esau. Gen_36:40; 1Ch_1:51.
Smith's Bible Dictionary
By Dr. William Smith.Published in 1863
jḗ?theth (יתת, yethēth, meaning unknown): a chief (or clan) of Edom (Gen_36:40 parallel 1Ch_1:51), but probably a mistake for ?Jether? = ?Ithran? (Gen_36:26).
International Standard Bible Encyclopedia
PRINTER 1915.
Jetheth
(Heb. Yetheth', יְתֵת, prob. a peg, or fig. a prince; Sept. Ι᾿εθέθ and Ι᾿εθέρ, the last apparently from falsely reading יֶתֶר; Vulg. Jetheth), the third named of the petty Edomitish sheiks in Mount Seir (Gen_36:40; 1Ch_1:51). B.C. ante 1658. SEE ESAU. As to identification, El-Wetideh is a place in Nejd, said to be in the Dahna, SEE ISHBAK; there is also a place called El- Wetid, and El- Wetidat, which is the name of mountains belonging to Bene Abd-Allah Ibn-Ghatfin (Marasid. s.v.) (Smith). SEE ARABIA.
CYCLOPEDIA OF BIBLICAL, THEOLOGICAL AND ECCLESIASTICAL
press 1895.