(Sea of) Jazer
יַעְזֵרStrong’s H3270yaazer (ya-a-zer)
Appears in 12 verses of the Old Testament
In short
Yaazer is the Hebrew word usually translated “jazer” and “at jazer”. It appears in 12 verses of the Old Testament.
“And Moses sent to spy out Jaazer, and they took the villages thereof, and drove out the Amorites that were there.”
Meaning
- § Jazer or Jaazer = "helped"
- § Jazer or Jaazer = "helped"
How it's translated
- jazer 11
- and jazer 1
- at jazer 1
Word-by-word English from the STEPBible tagged text.
Where it's used most
- Numbers 4
- Joshua 2
- 1 Chronicles 2
- Isaiah 2
- 2 Samuel 1
- Jeremiah 1
6 books in all.
Explore in Scripture
- Numbers 32:1Now the children of Reuben and the children of Gad had a very great multitude of cattle: and when they saw the land of Jazer, and the land of Gilead, that, behold, the place was a place for cattle;
- Numbers 32:3Ataroth, and Dibon, and Jazer, and Nimrah, and Heshbon, and Elealeh, and Shebam, and Nebo, and Beon,
- Numbers 32:35And Atroth, Shophan, and Jaazer, and Jogbehah,
- Joshua 13:25And their coast was Jazer, and all the cities of Gilead, and half the land of the children of Ammon, unto Aroer that is before Rabbah;
- Joshua 21:39Heshbon with her suburbs, Jazer with her suburbs; four cities in all.
- 2 Samuel 24:5And they passed over Jordan, and pitched in Aroer, on the right side of the city that lieth in the midst of the river of Gad, and toward Jazer:
Hebrew dictionary
יַעְזֵר yaazer · Jazer
§ Jazer or Jaazer = "helped" a Levitical city east of the Jordan, in Gilead in the territory of Gad, formerly an Amorite city; site uncertain
יַעְזֵר yaazer · (Sea of) Jazer
§ Jazer or Jaazer = "helped" a Levitical city east of the Jordan, in Gilead in the territory of Gad, formerly an Amorite city; site uncertain
From STEPBible’s Hebrew lexicon (based on Brown-Driver-Briggs).
Verses are from the King James Version. Word meanings come from the original Hebrew, not from any one translation.