("strength of God".)
1. Kohath's fourth son (Exodus 6:18; Exodus 6:22; 1 Chronicles 6:2; 1 Chronicles 6:18). Head of one of the four great Kohathite families, UZZIELITES (Numbers 3:27; 1 Chronicles 26:23).
2. Son of Ishi, of Simeon; one of the four captains who led their 500 brethren to Mount Seir, of which they dispossessed the Amalekites (1 Chronicles 4:42-43). 1 Chronicles 4:3. A Benjamite, of Bela's sons (1 Chronicles 7:7).
4. A musician, of Heman's sons (1 Chronicles 25:4; Azareel, i.e. helped of God, in ver. 18).
5. A Levite, of Jeduthun's sons; under Hezekiah took part in cleansing the temple from its pollution under Ahaz (2 Chronicles 29:14; 2 Chronicles 29:19).
6. Son of Harhaiah, a priest who repaired the wall (Nehemiah 3:8): "of the goldsmiths," i.e. those priests whose hereditary office it was to make or repair the sacred vessels.
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