| | | | Compare with Ramoth | | | | of 1 Chr. vi. 73, and | | | | Remeth of Josh. xix. | | | | 21, evidently all | | | | referring to the one | | | | place. The village | | | | ‘er Rameh,’ north of | | | | Shechem, has been | | | | proposed. _See_ Ramoth | | | | and Remeth.--Conder. | | | | =JASHUBI-LEHEM= |1 Chr. iv. 22 |_Not |-- |Probably a place near | | identified_ | | to ‘Chozeba’ (Kh. | | | | Kueizîba) in Judah. | | | | According to Jerome | | | | (Quaest Hebr.) and the | | | | Targum on Chronicles | | | | (ed. Wilkins, 29, 30), | | | | ‘Jashubi-lehem is | | | | Naomi and Ruth, who | | | | returned to bread, or | | | | to Beth-lehem after | | | | the famine.’ | | | | =JATTIR= |Josh. xv. 48; |_Kh. ʾAttîr_ |14 |In the mountains named | xxi. 14; 1 | | | between ‘Shamir’ (Kh. | Sam. xxx. | | | Somerah) and ‘Socoh’ | 27; 1 Chr. | | | (Shuweikeh). Now Kh. | vi. 57 | | | ʾAttîr, south of last. | | | | (_Mem._ III. 408; Sh. | | | | XXV.) | | | | =JAZER= |Num. xxxii. |_Beit Zerʾah_ |15 |In the east of Jordan | 1, 3, 35; | (?)* | | mentioned with | Josh. xiii. | | | ‘Heshbon,’ ‘Nimrah,’ | 25; xxi. | | | ‘Jogbehah,’ etc., | 39; 2 Sam. | | | ‘their (Gad) coast was | xxiv. 5; 1 | | | Jazer’ (Josh. xiii. | Chr. vi. 81; | | | 25), ‘Jazer of Gilead’ | xxvi. 31; | | | (1 Chr. xxvi. 31), | Is. xvi. | | | ‘The sea of Jazer’ | 8, 9; Jer. | | | (Jer. xlviii. 32). | xlviii.