Bible Person
Meaning: paternity; voluntary · Male · 2 cross references
This Joab entry refers to the returnee family grouping paired with Jeshua in Ezra and Nehemiah, not to David's general. It belongs to the household-level recovery of Judah after exile. First appears in Ezra 2:6.1
AI summary: This Joab matters because the cross references place the name among the families returning to rebuild life in the land. Even when a name is better known from royal and military history, here it functions as a house-name within the social fabric of restoration. Taken together, the material presents this Joab as a returnee house contributing to the restored community of Judah.1
Central Figure
Joab
Meaning: paternity; voluntary
Ezra 2:6.
Siblings
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Alistair de Blacquiere-Clarkson, “ai-BIBLE Bible Names JSON Factsheet Aggregating Material from Smith’s Bible Dictionary & Hitcocks’s New and Complete Analysis of the Bible.” ai-BIBLE electronic edition, version 1.0.
M.G.Easton, Illustrated Bible Dictionary, ai-BIBLE electronic edition, version 1.0.
Robert Rouse, “Theographic Bible Information,” Theographic-Bible-Metadata, 2020, https://github.com/robertrouse/theographic-bible-metadata.