JOBAB

jo'-bab (yobhabh, perhaps "howling"; Iobab):

(1) "Son" of Joktan (Genesis 10:29 1 Chronicles 1:23).

See TABLE OF NATIONS.

(2) An Edomite king (Genesis 36:33, 14 1 Chronicles 1:44, 45).

(3) King of Madon (Joshua 11:1).

(4) 1 Chronicles 8:9; and (5) 1 Chronicles 8:18, Benjamites.

The name is confused with that of Job in Septuagint of Job 42:17.