Iob

Patronymic surname from the Friulian rendition of the personal name Giobbe (“Job”).

Iob m or f by sense

1. a surname from Friulian [in turn originating as a patronymic]

• Stefano Ravara (2015–2026), Mappa dei Cognomi‎^[1]

• 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
   • Wonders of the East

     Þǣr wæs timbred on Beles dagum þǣs cinges ⁊ Iobes templ of īsernum ġeweorcum ⁊ of ǣrenum ġeworht. ⁊ on þǣre ylcan stōwe is ēast þanon ēac ōðer templ sunnan hāliġ tō þām is sum ġeþungen ⁊ ġedēfe sacerd tō ġesett, ⁊ hē ðā hofa ġehealdeð ⁊ beġȳmeþ.

     There was built in the days of king Belus a temple of Jove, made of iron and of brass. And in the same place to the east, there is another temple that is sacred to the sun, which a pious and gentle priest occupies; and he cares for and looks after the halls.

Strong a-stem:

• Iòb

Iob m

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