Iob

• Jōb, Ijōb, Hiōb
• Iōbus, Jōbus, Ijōbus, Hiōbus

Borrowed from Ancient Greek Ἰώβ (Iṓb), from Biblical Hebrew אִיּוֹב (ʾiyyōḇ).

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): [ˈjoːb]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): [ˈjɔb]

Iōb m sg (genitive Iōb or Iōbis); indeclinable, variously declined, third declension

1. (biblical) Job (Biblical character and book)

Indeclinable noun or third-declension noun, singular only.

• “Iob”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• Iob in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.

• IPA^(key): /joːb/

Borrowed from Latin Iōb, Ancient Greek Ἰώβ (Iṓb), from Biblical Hebrew אִיּוֹב (ʾiyyōḇ).

Iōb m

1. Job (biblical character)
   • late 10th century, Ælfric, Lives of Saints

     Iōb, sē ēadiġa and sē ānrǣda godes þeġn, wæs swa fulfremed on eallum gōdnyssum þæt god sylf cwæþ bē him þæt his ġelīċa nǣre þā on þām līfe ofer eorþan.

     Job, the prosperous and unwavering servant of god, was in all good deeds that God Himself said that there was no one like him living on Earth.

Strong a-stem:

From Latin Iuppiter, Iovis.

Iob m

1. (Roman mythology) Jove, Jupiter

Strong a-stem:

• Iòb

Iob m

1. (biblical) Job
2. (biblical) Job, the eighteenth book of the Old Testament