Hobab

Easton, 1897

Beloved, the Kenite, has been usually identified with Jethro (q.v.), Exodus 18:5, Exodus 18:27; comp. Numbers 10:29, Numbers 10:30. In Judges 4:11, the word rendered "father-in-law" means properly any male relative by marriage (comp. Genesis 19:14, "son-in-law," A.V.), and should be rendered "brother-in-law," as in the R.V. His descendants followed Israel to Canaan (Numbers 10:29), and at first pitched their tents near Jericho, but afterwards settled in the south in the borders of Arad (Judges 1:8-11, Judges 1:16).