Eliab

2 definitions found

From Easton's 1897 Bible Dictionary [easton]:

  Eliab
     to whom God is father. (1.) A Reubenite, son of Pallu (Num.
     16:1, 12; 26:8, 9; 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; 2:7).


     
       (3.) 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).
     
       (4.) One of the Gadite heroes who joined David in his
     stronghold in the wilderness (1 Chr. 12:9).
     

From Hitchcock's Bible Names Dictionary (late 1800's) [hitchcock]:

  Eliab, God is my father; God is the father