Joiarib
(Joiʹa·rib) [shortened form of Jehoiarib, meaning “May Jehovah Contend; Jehovah Has Conducted [Our] Legal Case”].
1. Head of a paternal house of priests; also called Jehoiarib. (1Ch 24:6, 7) Representatives of his house (or another priest with the same name) were contemporaries of Zerubbabel, Nehemiah, and Joiakim.—Ne 12:1, 6; 11:4, 10; 12:12, 19, 26.
2. An “instructor” in Ezra’s time.—Ezr 8:16.
3. A Judahite ancestor of Maaseiah.—Ne 11:5.