'Eliab' definitions:
Definition of 'eliab'
From: Easton
- Eliab to whom God is father.
- A Reubenite, son of Pallu (Num. 16:1, 12; 26:8, 9; Deut. 11:6).
- A son of Helon, and chief of the tribe of Zebulun at the time of the census in the wilderness (Num. 1:9; 2:7).
- The son of Jesse, and brother of David (1 Sam. 16:6). It was he who spoke contemptuously to David when he proposed to fight Goliath (1 Sam. 17:28).
- One of the Gadite heroes who joined David in his stronghold in the wilderness (1 Chr. 12:9).
Definition of 'eliab'
From: Hitchcock
- Eliab, God is my father; God is the father