Bible Names

Jabesh: meaning of the name

Jabesh means “dryness; confusion; shame.”
Hitchcock's Bible Names Dictionary (1869)boy name

Who named Jabesh in the Bible

Jabesh in Scripture

“Jabesh” appears in 21 verses of the King James Version; here are the first 8.

  • Judges 21:8

    And they said, What one is there of the tribes of Israel that came not up to Mizpeh to the Lord? And, behold, there came none to the camp from Jabesh–gilead to the assembly.

  • Judges 21:9

    For the people were numbered, and, behold, there were none of the inhabitants of Jabesh–gilead there.

  • Judges 21:10

    And the congregation sent thither twelve thousand men of the valiantest, and commanded them, saying, Go and smite the inhabitants of Jabesh–gilead with the edge of the sword, with the women and the children.

  • Judges 21:12

    And they found among the inhabitants of Jabesh–gilead four hundred young virgins, that had known no man by lying with any male: and they brought them unto the camp to Shiloh, which is in the land of Canaan.

  • Judges 21:14

    And Benjamin came again at that time; and they gave them wives which they had saved alive of the women of Jabesh–gilead: and yet so they sufficed them not.

  • 1 Samuel 11:1

    Then Nahash the Ammonite came up, and encamped against Jabesh–gilead: and all the men of Jabesh said unto Nahash, Make a covenant with us, and we will serve thee.

  • 1 Samuel 11:3

    And the elders of Jabesh said unto him, Give us seven days’ respite, that we may send messengers unto all the coasts of Israel: and then, if there be no man to save us, we will come out to thee.

  • 1 Samuel 11:5

    And, behold, Saul came after the herd out of the field; and Saul said, What aileth the people that they weep? And they told him the tidings of the men of Jabesh.