Yether — H3500

H3500 · Hebrew — יתר

Pronunciation: yeh'-ther

Definition

masculine proper noun

Jether, the name of five or six Israelites and of one Midianite

  1. Jether = "abundance"
  2. father-in-law of Moses
  3. oldest son of Gideon
  4. father of Jephunneh and the chief of a line of warriors of the line of Asher
  5. father of Amasa, the commander of Absalom's army
  6. son of Jada, a descendant of Hezron, of the tribe of Judah
  7. a son of Ezra, a Judaite

Usually translated as

Jether, Jethro

Origin

the same as H3499

Occurrences

Yether occurs 8 times in 7 verses of the King James.

Distribution of the word across the Bible: Judges (1), 1 Kings (2), 1 Chronicles (4)

Strong's Lexicon — Y