Dict: smith - ELIAB

ELIAB - E>@ - (God is my father). Son of Helon and leader of the tribe of Zebulun at the time of the census in the wilderness of Sinai. kjv@Numbers:1:9 kjv@Numbers:2:7 kjv@Numbers:7:24 ,29; 10:16) (B.C. 1490.) A Reubenite, father of Dathan and Abiram. kjv@Numbers:16:1 kjv@Numbers:16:12 kjv@Numbers:26:8-9 kjv@Numbers:11:6 ) One of David’s brothers, the eldest of the family. ( kjv@1Samuel:16:6 kjv@1Samuel:17:13 kjv@1Samuel:17:28; kjv@1Chronicles:2:13) (B.C. 1063.) A Levite in the time of David, who was both a "porter" and a musician on the "psaltery." ( kjv@1Chronicles:15:18-20 kjv@1Chronicles:16:5) One of the warlike Gadite leaders who came over to David when he was in the wilderness taking refuge from Saul. ( kjv@1Chronicles:12:9) (B.C. 1061.) An ancestor of Samuel the prophet; a Kohathite Levite, son of Nahath. ( kjv@1Chronicles:6:27) (B.C. 1250). Son of Nathanael, one of the fore-fathers of Judith, and therefore belonging to the tribe of Simeon. Judith kjv@8:1.