Jether

Meaning: surplus; excellence

This was the name of six biblical men.

  1. Father-in-law of Moses (Exodus 4:18 marginal note), called elsewhere Jethro.

  2. The oldest of Gideon's seventy sons (Judg. 8:20).

  3. The father of Amasa, David's general (1 Kings 2:5, 32); called Ithra (2 Sam. 17:25).

  4. 1 Chronicles 7:38.

  5. 1 Chronicles 2:32; one of Judah's posterity.

  6. 1 Chronicles 4:17.