Person
Name meaning: God, my God (Hitchcock)
To whom God is might. (1.) A chief of Manasseh, on the east of Jordan (1 Chr. 5:24).
(2.) A Gadite who joined David in the hold at Ziklag (1 Chr. 12:11).
(3.) One of the overseers of the offerings in the reign of Hezekiah (2 Chr. 31:13).
Source:Easton's Bible Dictionary (1897)Public domain
(to whom God is strength).
One of the heads of the tribe of Manasseh on the east of Jordan. (1 Chronicles 5:24)
A forefather of Samuel the prophet. (1 Chronicles 6:34)
A chief man in the tribe of Benjamin. (1 Chronicles 8:20)
Also a Benjamite chief. (1 Chronicles 8:22)
One of the heroes of David’s guard. (1 Chronicles 11:46)
Another of the same guard. (1 Chronicles 11:47)
One of the Gadite heroes who came across Jordan to David when he was in the wilderness of Judah hiding from Saul. (1 Chronicles 12:11)
A Kohathite Levite at the time of transportation of the ark from the house of Obed-edom to Jerusalem. (1 Chronicles 15:9,11) (B.C. 1043.)
A Levite in the time of Hezekiah; one of the overseers of the offerings made in the temple. (2 Chronicles 31:13) (B.C. 726.)
Source: Smith’s Bible Dictionary (1863) · Public domain
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