Jabneel

2 definitions found

From Easton's 1897 Bible Dictionary [easton]:

  Jabneel
     built by God. (1.) A town in the north boundary of Judah (Josh.
     15:11), called afterwards by the Greeks Jamnia, the modern
     Yebna, 11 miles south of Jaffa. After the fall of Jerusalem
     (A.D. 70), it became one of the most populous cities of Judea,
     and the seat of a celebrated school.


     
       (2.) A town on the border of Naphtali (Josh. 19:33). Its later
     name was Kefr Yemmah, "the village by the sea," on the south
     shore of Lake Merom.
     

From Hitchcock's Bible Names Dictionary (late 1800's) [hitchcock]:

  Jabneel, building of God