JOIARIB

(Joiʹa·rib) [shortened form of Jehoiarib, meaning “May Jehovah Contend; Jehovah Has Conducted [Our] Legal Case”].

1. Head of a paternal house of priests; also called Jehoiarib. (1Ch 24:6, 7) Representatives of his house (or another priest with the same name) were contemporaries of Zerubbabel, Nehemiah, and Joiakim.​—Ne 12:1, 6; 11:4, 10; 12:12, 19, 26.

2. An “instructor” in Ezra’s time.​—Ezr 8:16.

3. A Judahite ancestor of Maaseiah.​—Ne 11:5.