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Yachle'el | |
Yachtze'el | |
Yakhin | |
Yakshan | |
Yalam | |
Yamin | |
Yaval | Son of Lemekh and Adah, and brother of Yuval. He is described in Genesis 4:20 as 'the ancestor of all those who live in tents and keep herds'. | |
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Yavan | |
Yemuel | |
Yepheth | Son of Noah, brother of Shem and Ham.Yepheth entered the Ark and survived the Flood together with his own family. When his father lay drunk in his tent, Yepheth and Shem covered his nakedness. Noah blessed Yepheth: 'May God enlarge Yepheth, and let him dwell in the tents of Shem; And let Canaan be a slave to them' (Genesis 9:27). He had seven sons and seven grandsons. | |
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Yerach | Descendant of Noah. Son of Yoktan and brother of Almodad, Shelef, Chatzarmaveth, Hadoram, Uzal, Diklah, Oval, Avimael, Sheba, Ophir, Havilah and Yovav. | |
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Yered | |
Yetheth | |
Yetur | Son of Ishmael and grandson of Abraham (Genesis 25:13-15). Yetur and Nafish, his brother, settled in the area east of the Jordan but were later driven away by the tribes of Reuben, Gad and Menasseh. They are also identified with Ituraea, in the Arabian desert. They also settled around Damascus and were later forcibly converted to Judaism by King Aristobolus, who annexed their kingdom to Judea. | |
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Yetzer | |
Yeush | |
Yidlaf | |
Yig'al | One of the twelve spies sent out by Moses to survey the land of Canaan.Yig'al represented the tribe of Issachar (Numbers 13:7). | |
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Yimnah | |
Yishbak | |
Yishvah | |
Yishvi | |
Yithran | |
Yitzhar | |
Yokhebed | One of the daughters of Levi, and the sister of Kehath, Yokhebed was born after the descent into Egypt.She married Amram, a Levite, and had a daughter, Miriam, and two sons, Aaron and Moses. After Pharoah decreed that all Jewish male infants should be put to death, Yokhebed hid Moses for three months, then hid him in a basket made of bulrushes by the edge of the river Nile (Exodus 2:3). When the Egyptian princess found him, Miriam came forward and suggested Yochebed as a nurse for the child, thus saving Moses' life. | |
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Yoktan | |
Yov | |
Yovav | Descendant of Noah. Son of Yoktan and brother of Almodad, Shelef, Chatzarmaveth, Yerach, Hadoram, Uzal, Diklah, Oval, Avimael, Sheba, Ophir and Havilah. | |
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Yuval | |
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