son, grandson, child, member of a group

1. son, male child

2. grandson

3. children (pl. - male and female)

4. youth, young men (pl.)

5. young (of animals)

6. sons (as characterisation, i.e. sons of injustice [for un- righteous men] or sons of God [for angels]

7. people (of a nation) (pl.)

8. of lifeless things, i.e. sparks, stars, arrows (fig.)

9. a member of a guild, order, class

Benaiah = "Jehovah has built" or "Yahweh has built up"

1. one of David's mighty warriors, son of Jehoiada the chief priest, a Levite, set by David over his bodyguard, later having remained faithful to Solomon during Adonijah's attempt on the crown, was raised into the place of Joab as commander-in-chief of the army

2. the Pirathonite, an Ephraimite, one of David's thirty mighty warriors, and the captain of the eleventh monthly course

3. a Simeonite, a prince of the families of Simeon

4. a Levite in the time of David who played with a psaltery on Alamoth

5. a priest in the time of David, appointed to blow the trumpet before the ark

6. a Levite of the sons of Asaph

7. a Levite in the time of Hezekiah

8. Four Israelites in the time of Ezra who had taken strange wives

9. the father of Pelatiah

Zabad = "he endows"

1. a descendant of Judah; son of Nathan, grandson of Attai, great grandson of Ahlai Sheshan's daughter

2. son of Tahath

3. one of David's mighty warriors (could be the same as 1 above)

4. son of Shimeath, an Ammonitess; a conspirator against and, with Jehozabad, the murderer of Joash (also called 'Jozachar')

5. one of the sons of Zattu, who put away his foreign wife at the command of Ezra

6. one of the descendants of Hashum, who, in the time of Ezra, had a foreign wife

7. one of the sons of Nebo, who had a foreign wife in the time of Ezra

Zebina = "bought"

1. a son of Nebo who took a foreign wife in the time of Ezra

Iddo = "timely" or "lovely"

1. grandfather of the prophet Zechariah, ruler of the tribe of Manasseh east of the Jordan in the time of David

2. a man who took a foreign wife in the time of Ezra

Joel = "Jehovah is God"

1. son of Pethuel and the 2nd of the 12 minor prophets with a book by his name; probably prophesied in the time of king Uzziah of Judah

2. eldest son of Samuel the prophet and father of Heman the singer

3. a Simeonite chief

4. a Reubenite

5. a chief of Gad

6. son of Izrahiah and a chief of Issachar

7. brother of Nathan of Zobah and one of David's mighty warriors

8. son of Pedaiah and a chief of the half tribe of Manasseh west of the Jordan in the time of David

9. a son of Nebo who returned with Ezra and had a foreign wife

10. a Benjamite, son of Zichri

11. a Levite

12. a Kohathite Levite in the reign of Hezekiah

13. a Gershonite Levite chief in the time of David

14. a Gershonite Levite, son of Jehiel and a descendant of Laadan; maybe same as 13

Jeiel or Jehiel = "God sweeps away"

1. one of the sons of Adonikam who returned from exile with Ezra

2. a chief Reubenite of the house of Joel

3. a Merarite Levite and a gatekeeper to the tabernacle who also played the harp and psaltery in the service before the ark

4. one of the chiefs of the Levites in the time of king Josiah

5. one of the sons of Nebo who took a foreign wife in the time of Ezra

6. a man of Gibeon and ancestor of king Saul

7. one of the sons of Hotham the Aroerite and one of David's mighty warriors

8. the scribe of king Uzziah who kept the account of the king's irregular predatory warriors

9. a Gershonite Levite of the sons of Elizaphan

10. a Gershonite Levite of the sons of Asaph and forefather of Jahaziel in the time of king Jehoshaphat

Mattithiah = "gift of Jehovah"

1. a Levite who presided over the offerings

2. a Levite appointed by David to minister in the musical service before the ark

3. one of the family of Nebo who had a foreign wife in the time of Ezra

4. one of the men who stood at the right hand of Ezra when he read the law to the people

Nebo = "prophet"

1. a Babylonian deity who presided over learning and letters; corresponds to Greek Hermes, Latin Mercury, and Egyptian Thoth

   proper locative noun

2. a city in Moab and at one time assigned to Reuben; probably located on or near Mount Nebo

3. a city in Judah (maybe Benjamin) from which the families of some exiles, who returned from Babylon with Zerubbabel, originally came

4. the mountain where Moses died; located east of the Jordan opposite Jericho; site uncertain