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Jetur

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Jetur (Hebrew: יטוּר, Yeṭûr; "encircled") was one of the twelve sons of Ishmael listed in Genesis 25:15. He was the progenitor of the Ituraeans, who were known to the Greeks as the Itouraia. The Ituraeans are mentioned in the works of Dio Cassius, Josephus, Pliny, Strabo and others; and they were known to the Roman authorities as a notorious tribe of robbers. The descendants of Jetur perpetrated a massacre of Lebanese Christians in the year l860 AD.