IOBAB (Hebr. Jābhābh). — Name of various figures of the Old Testament.
1. Shemite, the thirteenth and last son of Iectan (Gen. 10:29; I Par. 1:23). Progenitor of an Arab tribe in the Yemen (E. Glaser, V. BIBLICA.); others identify it with the Ḥaḏāpīrān of Ptolemy (VI, 7, 24).
2. King of Edom, at Bosra (Gen. 36:33 ff.; I Par. 1:44 ff.). An apocryphal addition to the Greek translation Job (v.).
3. Canaanite king of Madon (Hirbet Madin, west of the Lake of Tiberias). He took part in the northern confederation, under the auspices of Iabin, against Joshua, who defeated it (Ios. 11:1, 7 ff.).
4. Two Benjaminites (I Par. 8:9, 18).
BIBL.: E. Glaser, Skizze der Geschichte und Geographie Arabiens, II, Berlin 1890, pp. 302–307; F. Vigouroux, s. V. in DB, III, col. 1579; A. Fernandez, Commentarius in librum Iosue, Paris 1938, p. 162 ff. Francesco Spadafora