Brown Driver Briggs

 Jabesh = "dry"
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1. a town in the territory of Gilead; according to Eusebius, it is
beyond the Jordan, 6 miles (10 km) from Pella, on the mountain
road to Gerasa; site unknown but may be modern 'Wadi Yabes'
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2. father of Shallum, the 15th king of the northern kingdom