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• JAAKAN he twists, one of the sons of Ezer, the son of Seir the Horite (1
  Chronicles 1:42).


• JAAKOBAH heel-catcher, a form of the name Jacob, one of the
  descendants of Simeon (1 Chronicles 4:36).


• JAALA a wild she-goat, one of the Nethinim, whose descendants returned
  from the Captivity (Nehemiah 7:58).


• JAALAM concealer, the second of Esau’s three sons by Aholibamah
  (Genesis 36:5, 14).


• JAANAI mourner, one of the chief Gadites (1 Chronicles 5:12).


• JAARE-OREGIM forests of the weavers, a Bethlehemite (2 Samuel
  21:19), and the father of Elhanan, who slew Goliath. In 1 Chronicles 20:5
  called JAIR.


• JAASAU fabricator, an Israelite who renounced his Gentile wife after the
  Return (Ezra 10:37).


• JAASIEL made by God, one of David’s body-guard, the son of Abner (1
  Chronicles 27:21), called Jasiel in 1 Chronicles 11:47.


• JAAZ-ANIAH heard by Jehovah. (1.) The son of Jeremiah, and one of the
  chief Rechabites (Jeremiah 35:3).

(2.) The son of Shaphan (Ezekiel 8:11).

(3.) The son of Azur, one of the twenty-five men seen by Ezekiel (11:1) at
the east gate of the temple.

(4.) A Maachathite (2 Kings 25:23; Jeremiah 40:8; 42:1). He is also called
Azariah (Jeremiah 43:2).

• JAAZER he (God) helps, a city of the Amorites on the east of Jordan,
  and assigned, with neighbouring places in Gilead, to Gad (Numbers 32:1,
  35; Joshua 13:25). It was allotted to the Merarite Levites (21:39). In
  David’s time it was occupied by the Hebronites, i.e., the descendants of