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Jo-iarib
Jo-i’arib (whom Jehovah defends).
1. A layman who returned from Babylon with Ezra. Ezra 8:16. (b.c. 459.)
2. The founder of one of the courses of priests, elsewhere called in full Jehoiarib. Neh. 12:6, 19.
3. A Shilonite—i.e., probably a descendant of Shelah the son of Judah. Neh. 11:5. (b.c. before 536.)