Jethro

2 definitions found

From Easton's 1897 Bible Dictionary [easton]:

  Jethro
     his excellence, or gain, a prince or priest of Midian, who
     succeeded his father Reuel. Moses spent forty years after his
     exile from the Egyptian court as keeper of Jethro's flocks.
     While the Israelites were encamped at Sinai, and soon after
     their victory over Amalek, Jethro came to meet Moses, bringing


     with him Zipporah and her two sons. They met at the "mount of
     God," and "Moses told him all that the Lord had done unto
     Pharaoh" (Ex. 18:8). On the following day Jethro, observing the
     multiplicity of the duties devolving on Moses, advised him to
     appoint subordinate judges, rulers of thousands, of hundreds, of
     fifties, and of tens, to decide smaller matters, leaving only
     the weightier matters to be referred to Moses, to be laid before
     the Lord. This advice Moses adopted (Ex. 18). He was also called
     Hobab (q.v.), which was probably his personal name, while Jethro
     was an official name. (See {MOSES}.)
     

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

  Jethro, his excellence; his posterity