Eliab

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Meaning: to whom God is father

  1. A Reubenite, son of Pallu (Num 16:1, Num 16:12; Num 26:8f; Deut 11:6).
  2. A son of Helon, and chief of the tribe of Zebulun at the time of the census in the wilderness (Num 1:9; Num 2:7).
  3. The son of Jesse, and brother of David (1Sam 16:6). It was he who spoke contemptuously to David when he proposed to fight Goliath (1Sam 17:28).
  4. One of the Gadite heroes who joined David in his stronghold in the wilderness (1Chr 12:9).


This entry includes text from Easton's Bible Dictionary, 1897.

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