Word

יִתְרוֹ

Yithrôw · H3503 · Hebrew · proper noun · 9 occurrences

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Person

Jethrofirst named in Exodus 2:1816 verses

Meanings

Jethro

A man also known as Jether and Reuel, who was priest of Midian and father-in-law of Moses

Examples
Exodus 3:1 Now Moses was pasturing the flock of his father-in-law Jethro, the priest of Midian; and he led the flock to the west side of the wilderness and came to Horeb, the mountain of God.
Exodus 4:18 Then Moses departed and returned to his father-in-law Jethro, and said to him, “Please, let me go, that I may return to my brothers who are in Egypt, and see if they are still alive.” And Jethro said to Moses, “Go in peace.”
Exodus 18:1 Now Jethro, the priest of Midian, Moses’ father-in-law, heard about everything that God had done for Moses and for Israel His people, how the LORD had brought Israel out of Egypt.

How it’s used In 3 roles

Every occurrence, grouped by the words it is grammatically related to.

the word studied the word it goes with

Named alongside itApposition

6 occurrences in 3 groups

חָתַןfather-in-law, to intermarry 5
כֹּהֵןpriest 2
אֲנִיI 1

What it doesIt is the subject

7 occurrences in 5 groups

לָקַחto take, to receive 2
אָמַרto say 2
חָדָהto be pleased 1
שָׁמַעto hear, to listen, to obey 1
בּוֹאto come, to go in, to bring 1

In phrases “… of it”It is the genitive

1 occurrences in 1 groups

צֹאןflock, small cattle, sheep and goats 1

When two words share a role, as in “Paul and Barnabas said”, the verse appears under each, so a section’s counts can add up to more than the number of occurrences.

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Semantic domains 1 entry

Names of People003001007: Jethro is named as Moses' father-in-law, the Midianite priest who welcomed Moses after his flight from Egypt and later counseled him in the wilderness.

Brown-Driver-Briggs Hebrew Lexicon H3503. Yithro יִתְרוֺ proper name, masculine father of Moses' wife Exo 3:1; Exo 4:18; b…

H3503. Yithro
יִתְרוֺ proper name, masculine father of Moses' wife Exo 3:1; Exo 4:18; b Exo 18:1-2, Exo 18:5, Exo 18:6, Exo 18:9, Exo 18:10, Exo 18:12 (all E), = יֶתֶר Exo 4:18; in all ᵐ5 Ιοθορ.

Brown, Driver and Briggs, A Hebrew and English Lexicon of the Old Testament (1906), public domain

Topical studies with this word 1 entry

Names of People9 occurrences

Meanings adapted from the UBS Dictionary of the Greek New Testament, © United Bible Societies, CC BY-SA 4.0 and the UBS Dictionary of Biblical Hebrew (from the Semantic Dictionary of Biblical Hebrew), © United Bible Societies, CC BY-SA 4.0; MACULA Greek Linguistic Datasets, available at https://github.com/Clear-Bible/macula-greek/, licensed CC BY 4.0; MACULA Hebrew Linguistic Datasets © 2022-2024 by Biblica, Inc., CC BY 4.0. Westminster Leningrad Codex (tanach.us). OpenScriptures Hebrew Bible morphology (hb.openscriptures.org), CC BY 4.0.

Sources

eRhema lexical overview, based on the UBS Dictionary of Biblical Hebrew and the UBS Dictionary of the Greek New Testament (© United Bible Societies, CC BY-SA 4.0) and Macula Hebrew and Greek (Clear Bible, CC BY 4.0); released under CC BY-SA 4.0