Chelubai

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Heb., Kelûbái (1Chr 2:9) This is probably another form of the name Caleb.

One of the three sons of Hezron of the tribe of Judah. He is only mentioned in the genealogical tables of I Par., ii, where his descendants by different wives are enumerated. Many identify this Caleb with the son of Jephone, who, in the view stated above, would be merely the legal son of Hesron through adoption into his family. The reason for this identification is that both had a daughter named Achsa (written Axa in the Vulgate, Josh 15:16ff; Jdg 1:12f). But, to touch only one difficulty, the son of Jephone could not have been the great-grandfather of Beseleel, who was a skilled artificer when Caleb was barely forty years old (cf. Josh 14:7). To get rid of the difficulty, as Hummelauer does (Com. in Num., 202), by making Uri and Beseleel adopted sons of Hur, or by rejecting 1Chr 2:20, is too arbitrary a solution to commend itself.