Hebrew word · H2246

חֹבָב

chovav

Hobab

Appears 2 times in 2 verses of the Hebrew Old Testament.

What it means

A man living at the time of Egypt and Wilderness, first mentioned at Num.10.29;

son of: Jethro (H3503);

brother of: Zipporah (H6855) and Eliasaph (H0460)

§ Hobab = "cherished"

the son of Reuel, the Midianite father-in-law of Moses, also known as Jethro, and brother-in-law of Moses

Abridged from Brown, Driver and Briggs, A Hebrew and English Lexicon of the Old Testament (1906), via STEPBible.org (CC BY 4.0).

Where it appears

Numbers · 1

  1. Numbers 10:29 לְ֠חֹבָב to Hobab

    Then Moses said to Hobab, the son of Moses’ father-in-law Reuel the Midianite, “We are setting out for the place of which the LORD said: ‘I will give it to you.’ Come with us, and we will treat you well, for the LORD has promised good things to Israel.”

    Here: The person Moses speaks to. The name probably comes from a root meaning 'to love' or 'cherish', but that is not certain. Outside this passage he appears only in Judges 4:11, where he is called Moses' ḥōtēn.

Judges · 1

  1. Judges 4:11 חֹבָ֖ב Hobab

    Now Heber the Kenite had moved away from the Kenites, the descendants of Hobab the father-in-law of Moses, and had pitched his tent by the great tree of Zaanannim, which was near Kedesh.

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