Jochebed
JOCHEBED
Wife of Amram, and mother of Moses, Aaron, and Miriam, Num 26:59 . She was a daughter of Levi, and her husband’s aunt, Exo 6:20, though such marriages were afterwards prohibited, Lev 18:12 .
Fuente: American Tract Society Bible Dictionary
Jochebed
(Heb. Yoke’bed, , Jehovah is her glory; Sept. or , the wife of Amram, and mother of Miriam, Aaron, and Moses (Num 26:59). B.C. 1738. In Exo 6:20 she is expressly declared to have been the sister of Amram’s father, and consequently the aunt of her husband. As marriage between persons thus related was afterwards forbidden by the law (Lev 18:12), various attempts have been made to show that the relationship was more distant than the text in its literal meaning indicates. But the mere mention of the relationship implies that there was something remarkable in the case. The fact seems to be, that where this marriage was contracted there was no law forbidding such alliances, but they must in any case have been unusual, although not forbidden; and this, with the writer’s knowledge that they were subsequently interdicted, sufficiently accounts for this one being so pointedly mentioned. The candor of the historian in declaring himself to be sprung from a marriage afterwards forbidden by the law, delivered through himself, deserves especial notice. Kitto. In Num 26:59, Jochebed is stated to have been the daughter of Levi, whom her mother bore to Levi in Egypt, from which it likewise appears that she was literally the sister of Kohath, Levi’s son and Amram’s father (Exo 6:16; Exo 6:18. On the chronology, see Brown’s Ordo Soeclorum, p. 301). The courage and faith of this tender mother in braving Pharaoh’s edict by her ingenious secretion and subsequent exposure of the infant Moses (Exo 2:1-10) are alluded to with commendation by the apostle (Heb 11:23), and were signally rewarded by divine providence; to her pious example and precepts the future lawgiver doubtless owed much of that integrity which so eminently characterized him. SEE MOSES.
Fuente: Cyclopedia of Biblical, Theological and Ecclesiastical Literature
Jochebed
Jehovah is her glory, the wife of Amram, and the mother of Miriam, Aaron, and Moses (Num. 26:59). She is spoken of as the sister of Kohath, Amram’s father (Ex. 6:20; comp. 16, 18; 2:1-10).
Fuente: Easton’s Bible Dictionary
Jochebed
(“Jehovah her glory”.) Aunt and wife of Amram (Exo 2:1; Exo 6:20; Num 26:59). But Jochebed could not be strictly daughter of Levi, for three centuries must have intervened between Levi’s death and Moses’ birth. Amram and Jochebed were descendants of Levi, seven or eight generations removed. In Moses’ time the Kohathites, from Kohath Levi’s son, were divided into four branches, Amram, Izhar, Hebron, and Uzziel, amounting to 8,600 males, of whom the Amramites were 2,000. Amram Kohath’s son is therefore not Amram Moses’ father. Omission of links in Scriptural genealogies is frequent.
Fuente: Fausset’s Bible Dictionary
Jochebed
JOCHEBED.A sister of Kohath, married to Amram her nephew, and mother of Aaron and Moses (Exo 6:20) and Miriam (Num 26:59). An earlier writer, E [Note: Elohist.] , in narrating the birth of Moses, speaks of his mother as a daughter of Levi, but does not give her name (Exo 2:1).
Fuente: Hastings’ Dictionary of the Bible
Jochebed
The mother of Miriam, Aaron, and Moses. (Exo 6:20) The name is of Cabad, glory; and Jah, the Lord.
Fuente: The Poor Mans Concordance and Dictionary to the Sacred Scriptures
Jochebed
joke-bed (, yokhebhedh, Yahweh is glory): Daughter of Levi, wife of Amram and mother of Moses (Exo 6:20; Num 26:59). According to Exo 6:20, she was a sister of Kohath, Amram’s father.
Fuente: International Standard Bible Encyclopedia
Jochebed
Jochebed (God-glorified), wife of Amram and mother of Miriam, Moses and Aaron. In Exo 6:20, Jochebed is expressly declared to have been the sister of Amram’s father, and consequently the aunt of her husband. As marriage between persons thus related was afterwards forbidden by the law (Lev 18:12), various attempts have been made to show that the relationship was more distant than the text in its literal meaning indicates. We see no necessity for this. The mere mention of the relationship implies that there was something remarkable in the case; but if we show that nothing is remarkable, we do away the occasion for the relationship being at all noticed. The fact seems to be, that where this marriage was contracted, there was no law forbidding such alliances, but they must in any case have been unusual, although not forbidden; and this, with the writer’s knowledge that they were subsequently interdicted, sufficiently accounts for this one being so pointedly mentioned. The candor of the historian in declaring himself to be sprung from a marriage, afterwards forbidden by the law, delivered through himself, deserves especial notice.
Fuente: Popular Cyclopedia Biblical Literature
Jochebed
[Jo’chebed]
Wife and aunt of Amram, and mother of Aaron, Moses, and Miriam. Exo 6:20; Num 26:59.
Fuente: Concise Bible Dictionary
Jochebed
H3115
Mother of Miriam, Aaron, and Moses
Exo 6:20; Num 26:59
Nurses Moses when he is adopted by Pharaoh’s daughter
Exo 2:1-9
Fuente: Nave’s Topical Bible
Jochebed
Jochebed (jk’e-bd), whose glory is Jehovah. The wife and at the same time the aunt of Amram and the mother of Moses and Aaron. Exo 2:1; Exo 6:20; Num 26:59.
Fuente: People’s Dictionary of the Bible
Jochebed
Joch’ebed. (whose glory is Jehovah). The wife and, at the same time, the aunt of Amram, and the mother of Moses and Aaron. Exo 2:1; Exo 6:20; Num 26:59.