איוב

Hebrew

Etymology

Possibly from early northwest Semitic dialectal name meaning "where is the father?" from אַי (ʾay, “where”) and אוֹבּ (ʾôb, “father”), dialectal variant of אב ('áv, “father”). Or, akin to אויב (oyév, “enemy”).^[1] Some biblical scholars have suggested that it is related to Arabic أَوَّاب (ʔawwāb, “returning”), from the root ء و ب (ʔ w b).

Pronunciation

(Modern Israeli Hebrew) IPA^(key): /iˈjov/
(Tiberian Hebrew) IPA^(key): /ijˈjoːβ/
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Proper noun

אִיּוֹב • (iyóv) m

(biblical) Job (a book of the Old Testament and the Hebrew Tanakh)
(biblical) Job (a character in the Old Testament and the Qur'an, renowned for his patience)
a male given name, Iyov

Derived terms

בְּשׂוֹרַת אִיּוֹב (bsorát iyóv)

Descendants

→ Ancient Greek: Ἰώβ (Iṓb) (see there for further descendants)

References

^ “Job”, in The American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, 5th edition, Boston, Mass.: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2016, →ISBN.

Anagrams

אבוי, אביו, אויב

[1] “Job”, in The American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, 5th edition, Boston, Mass.: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2016, →ISBN.

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