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Meaning and etymology of the Hebrew name Azubah
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Azubah 
There are three Azubah's mentioned in the Bible. One is a wife of Caleb the son of Hezron (1 Chronicles 2:18). The text seems to indicate that Azubah has sons, but they aren't mentioned and she dies in the next verse. It may very well be that Caleb's wives Azubah and Jerioth are mentioned as a single marital unit, from which sons come, but that Azubah is mentioned as the one who dies childless. Caleb subsequently marries Ephrath and she bears him Hur.
The second Azubah is the daughter of Shilhi and the mother of Jehoshaphat, king of Judah (1 Kings 22:42). The third time the name Azubah occurs is in a small array of nicknames that the prophet Isaiah assigns to Zion and Jerusalem (Isaiah 62:4).
The name Azubah comes from the Hebrew root group  (azab I & II). The verb (azab I) means to leave, forsake or loose - of people (Jacob losing Benjamin - Genesis 44:22), of a location (snow forsaking a rock - Jeremiah 18:14) or an object (Joseph his garment - Genesis 39:12). The verb may be used to mean to entrust (Potiphar's house in Joseph's hand - Genesis 39:6), to expose unguarded (the ostrich her eggs - Job 39:14; townsfolk their town - Joshua 8:17), to forget or ignore (Job his complaints - Job 9:27) or the opposite: to vent (Job his complaints - Job 10:1).
The derivative (azuba) means forsakenness, forsaken place or desolation (Isaiah 6:12 and 17:9) and is identical to the name Azubah. Another derivative is  (izzabon), meaning wares, or literally (as BDB Theological Dictionary helpfully proposes) that what is "left in the purchaser's hand." This masculine noun occurs only in Ezekiel 27, namely the verses 12, 27 and 33.
The identical root (azab II) means to restore or repair and is used only in Nehemiah 3:8. It surely is a different verb because it exists as such in cognate languages.
For a meaning of the name Azubah, reads Forsaken. Jones' Dictionary of Old Testament Proper Names has Deserted.
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