Ἰώβ

See also: Ιώβ

Ancient Greek

Etymology

From Biblical Hebrew אִיּוֹב (ʾiyyōḇ).

Proper noun

Ἰώβ • (Iṓb) m (indeclinable)

1. (biblical) Job (Old Testament character and book in the Bible)

Quotations

• New Testament, Epistle of James 5:11:

  ἰδού, μακαρίζομεν τοὺς ὑπομένοντας· τὴν ὑπομονὴν Ἰὼβ ἠκούσατε, καὶ τὸ τέλος Κυρίου εἴδετε, ὅτι πολύσπλαγχνός ἐστιν ὁ Κύριος καὶ οἰκτίρμων.

  idoú, makarízomen toùs hupoménontas; tḕn hupomonḕn Iṑb ēkoúsate, kaì tò télos Kuríou eídete, hóti polúsplankhnós estin ho Kúrios kaì oiktírmōn.

  • Translation by KJV

    Behold, we count them happy which endure. Ye have heard of the patience of Job, and have seen the end of the Lord; that the Lord is very pitiful, and of tender mercy.

Descendants

• Greek: Ιώβ (Ióv)
• → Old Church Slavonic: Іѡв (Iov)
  • → Romanian: Iov
  • → Russian: Ио́в (Ióv)
  • → Serbo-Croatian: Jȍv
  • → Ukrainian: Іо́в (Ióv)
• → Armenian: Հոբ (Hob)
• → Georgian: იობ (iob)
• → Latin: Iōb (see there for further descendants)

Further reading

• “Ἰώβ”, in ΛΟΓΕΙΟΝ [Logeion] Dictionaries for Ancient Greek and Latin (in English, French, Spanish, German, Dutch and Chinese), University of Chicago, since 2011
• G2492 in Strong, James (1979) Strong’s Exhaustive Concordance to the Bible

Greek

Proper noun

Ἰώβ • (Iṓb) m

1. Katharevousa form of Ιώβ (Ióv)