Strong's Hebrew Concordance

H3115: יוֹכֶבֶד

Yôwkebed · pronounced yo-keh'-bed · “Jochebed”

Definition

Jokebed, the mother of Moses

KJV translates it as: Jochebed.

Word origin: from H3068 (יְהֹוָה) contracted and H3513 (כָּבַד); Jehovah-gloried;

Extended definition

A woman of the tribe of Levi living at the time of Egypt and Wilderness, first mentioned at Exo.6.20;
daughter of: Levi (H3878);
sister of: Gershon (H1648), Kohath (H6955) and Merari (H4847); married to Amram (H6019);
mother of: Moses (H4872), Aaron (H0175) and Miriam (H4813)
§ Jochebed = "Jehovah is glory"
the daughter of Levi, wife and at the same time aunt of Amram, and the mother of Moses, Aaron, and Miriam

Brief lexicon based on BDB via STEPBible TBESH (CC BY 4.0).

How H3115 is translated

  • jochebed ×1
  • was jochebed ×1

Bible verses with H3115 (Yôwkebed)

Yôwkebed appears in 2 verses.

  • Exodus 6:20

    And Amram took him Jochebed his father’s sister to wife; and she bare him Aaron and Moses: and the years of the life of Amram were an hundred and thirty and seven years.

  • Numbers 26:59

    And the name of Amram’s wife was Jochebed, the daughter of Levi, whom her mother bare to Levi in Egypt: and she bare unto Amram Aaron and Moses, and Miriam their sister.