יוֹאָשׁYôwʼâsh

is strong, hath bestowed

Pronunciation: yo-awsh' · Hebrew/Aramaic (Old Testament) · H3101

Meanings

1. king of Judah, son of Ahaziah (Jehoahaz 3) (2 Kings 12:1; 2 Kings 12:2; 2 Kings 12:3)

2. king of Israel, son of Jehoahaz 2 (2 Kings 13:10; 2 Kings 13:25; 2 Kings 14:8)

3. father of Gideon (Jerubbaal) (Judges 6:11; Judges 6:29; Judges 6:30)

4. a prince of Ahab's house, called בֶּןהַֿמֶּלֶךְ (1 Kings 22:26; 2 Chronicles 18:25)

5. one of David's heroes (1 Chronicles 12:3)

6. a Judaite prince (1 Chronicles 4:22)

Same root

Where it appears

Appears 47 times in the Bible.

  • Judges 6:11 Then the angel of the Lord came and sat beneath the great tree at Ophrah, which belonged to Joash of the clan of Abiezer. Gideon son of Joash was threshing wheat at the bottom of a winepress to hide the grain from the Midianites.
  • Judges 6:29 The people said to each other, “Who did this?” And after asking around and making a careful search, they learned that it was Gideon, the son of Joash.
  • Judges 6:30 “Bring out your son,” the men of the town demanded of Joash. “He must die for destroying the altar of Baal and for cutting down the Asherah pole.”
  • Judges 6:31 But Joash shouted to the mob that confronted him, “Why are you defending Baal? Will you argue his case? Whoever pleads his case will be put to death by morning! If Baal truly is a god, let him defend himself and destroy the one who broke down his altar!”
  • Judges 7:14 His companion answered, “Your dream can mean only one thing—God has given Gideon son of Joash, the Israelite, victory over Midian and all its allies!”
  • Judges 8:13 After this, Gideon returned from the battle by way of Heres Pass.
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Source: Brown, Driver and Briggs, Hebrew and English Lexicon of the Old Testament (1906), public domain; markup by unfoldingWord, CC BY (github.com/unfoldingWord/Brown-Driver-Briggs-Enhanced).