Heber
the name means Passing over Easton's Bible Dictionary
Heber the Kenite; husband of Jael. He had separated from the Kenites and allied with Jabin, king of Hazor.
From Easton's Bible Dictionary
Passing over. (1.) Son of Beriah and grandson of Asher (Gen. 46:17; 1 Chr. 7:31, 32).
Easton's Illustrated Bible Dictionary, 1897 — public domain, quoted in full and unedited.
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Jael
From STEPBible's TIPNR genealogy data. A relationship the data marks uncertain is not shown here.
First named at Judges 4:11.
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Verses that name Heber
- Judges 4:11 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.
- Judges 4:17 Meanwhile, Sisera had fled on foot to the tent of Jael, the wife of Heber the Kenite, because there was peace between Jabin king of Hazor and the house of Heber the Kenite.
- Judges 4:21 But as he lay sleeping from exhaustion, Heber’s wife Jael took a tent peg, grabbed a hammer, and went silently to Sisera. She drove the peg through his temple and into the ground, and he died.
- Judges 5:24 Most blessed among women is Jael, the wife of Heber the Kenite, most blessed of tent-dwelling women.