People of the Bible
Levi (patriarch)
1755 BC – · Tribe of Levi
Family
- Father
- Jacob (Israel)
- Mother
- Leah
- Brothers and sisters
- Dinah, Issachar, Judah (patriarch), Reuben, Simeon, Zebulun
- Half-brothers and sisters
- Asher, Benjamin (patriarch), Dan, Gad, Joseph (son of Jacob), Naphtali
- Children
- Gershon, Jochebed, Kohath, Merari
In the story
A dot is a moment; a bar is something that lasted, drawn to its length.
- Birth of Levi · 1755 BC
- Joseph sold to Egypt · 1727 BC
- 7 years of famine · 1707 BC
- Joseph's brothers return to Egypt · 1705 BC
Easton’s Bible Dictionary
The third son of Jacob by Leah. The origin of the name is found in Leah’s words (Gen. 29:34), “This time will my husband be joined [Heb. yillaveh] unto me.” He is mentioned as taking a prominent part in avenging his sister Dinah (Gen. 34:25-31). He and his three sons went down with Jacob (46:11) into Egypt, where he died at the age of one hundred and thirty-seven years (Ex. 6:16).
From M. G. Easton, Illustrated Bible Dictionary (1893), in the public domain.
Named in 64 verses
- Genesis
- 29:34, 34:25, 34:30, 35:23, 46:11, 49:5
- Exodus
- 1:2, 2:1, 6:16, 6:19, 32:26, 32:28
- Numbers
- 1:49, 3:6, 3:15, 3:17, 4:2, 16:1, 16:7, 16:8, 16:10, 17:3, 17:8, 18:2, 18:21, 26:59
- Deuteronomy
- 10:8, 10:9, 18:1, 21:5, 27:12, 31:9, 33:8
- Joshua
- 13:14, 13:33, 21:10
- 1 Kings
- 12:31
- 1 Chronicles
- 2:1, 6:1, 6:16, 6:38, 6:43, 6:47, 9:18, 12:26, 21:6, 23:6, 23:14, 23:24, 24:20
- Ezra
- 8:15, 8:18
- Nehemiah
- 10:39, 12:23
- Psalms
- 135:20
- Ezekiel
- 40:46, 48:31
- Zechariah
- 12:13
- Malachi
- 2:4, 2:8, 3:3
- Hebrews
- 7:5, 7:9
- Revelation
- 7:7
The family, dates and events on this page come from Theographic, a knowledge graph of the Bible by Robert Rouse, used and shared under CC BY-SA 4.0. It is a work in progress, and its dates follow one reconstruction of biblical chronology among several. The dictionary article above is separately in the public domain.