(timely or lovely)

1. The father of Abinadab (1 Kings 4:14)
2. A descendant of Gershom, son of Levi (1 Chronicles 6:21)
3. Son of Zechariah, ruler of the tribe of Manasseh east of Jordan in the time of David (1 Chronicles 27:21)
4. A seer whose “visions” against Jeroboam incidentally contained some of the acts of Solomon (2 Chronicles 9:29). He appears to have written a chronicle or story relating to the life and reign of Abijah (2 Chronicles 13:22).
5. The grandfather of the prophet Zechariah (Zechariah 1:1, 7)
6. The chief of those who assembled at Casiphia at the time of the second caravan from Babylon. He was one of the Nethinim (Ezra 8:17, comp. Ezra 8:20).