Encyclopedia of The Bible – Jerioth
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Jerioth

JERIOTH jĕr’ ĭ ŏth (יְרִיעֹ֑ות, tents). One of the wives of Caleb (1 Chron 2:18). The MT is obviously corrupt. It may be that Jerioth is another name for Azubah, or Azubah was at one time the wife of a man called Jerioth. Textual scholars have made various conjectural emendations.