Dry.
1) For Jabesh-Gilead (1 Sam. 11:3, 9, 10).
2) The father of Shallum (2 Kings 15:10, 13, 14), who usurped the throne of Israel on the death of Zachariah.
JABESH(Ἰάβεις, LXX.; Ἰάβης, Ἰαβισσά, ἸαβισόςJoseph.), a city of Gilead, the inhabitants of which wer...
Dictionary of Greek and Roman Geography
dryness; confusion; shame ...
Hitchcock's Bible Names Dictionary
(dry). • Father of Shallum, the fifteenth king of Israel. (2 Kings 15:10,13,14) • Jabesh-gilead, o...
William Smith's Bible Dictionary
A town on the east of Jordan, on the top of one of the green hills of Gilead, within the limits of t...
Easton's Bible Dictionary