Dict: easton - Eliab

Eliab @ to whom God is father.

(1.) A Reubenite, son of Pallu kjv@Numbers:16:1 kjv@Numbers:16:12 kjv@Numbers:26:8-9; kjv@Deuteronomy:11:6).

(2.) A son of Helon, and chief of the tribe of Zebulun at the time of the census in the wilderness kjv@Numbers:1:9 kjv@Numbers:2:7).

(3.) The son of Jesse, and brother of David ( kjv@1Samuel:16:6). It was he who spoke contemptuously to David when he proposed to fight Goliath ( kjv@1Samuel:17:28).

(4.) One of the Gadite heroes who joined David in his stronghold in the wilderness ( kjv@1Chronicles:12:9).