(God is my father)

1. Son of Helon and leader of the tribe of Zebulun at the time of the census in the wilderness of Sinai (Numbers 1:9, 16-17, 44; 2:7-8; 7:24-29; 10:16)
2. A Reubenite, father of Dathan and Abiram (Numbers 16:1, 12; 26:8-9; Deuteronomy 11:6)
3. One of David’s brothers, the eldest of the family (1 Samuel 16:6; 17:13, 28; 1 Chronicles 2:13)
4. A Levite in the time of David, who was both a “porter” and a musician on the “psaltery” (1 Chronicles 15:18, 20; 16:5)
5. One of the warlike Gadite leaders who came over to David when he was in the wilderness taking refuge from Saul (1 Chronicles 12:9)
6. An ancestor of Samuel the prophet; a Kohathite Levite, son of Nahath (1 Chronicles 6:27)
7. Son of Nathanael, one of the forefathers of Judith, and therefore belonging to the tribe of Simeon (Judith 8:1)