People of the Bible

Merari

Tribe of Levi

Family

Easton’s Bible Dictionary

Sad; bitter, the youngest son of Levi, born before the descent of Jacob into Egypt, and one of the seventy who accompanied him thither (Gen. 46:11; Ex. 6:16). He became the head of one of the great divisions of the Levites (Ex. 6:19).

From M. G. Easton, Illustrated Bible Dictionary (1893), in the public domain.

Named in 38 verses

Genesis: 46:11
Exodus: 6:16, 6:19
Numbers: 3:17, 3:20, 3:33, 3:35, 3:36, 4:29, 4:33, 4:42, 4:45, 7:8, 10:17, 26:57
Joshua: 21:7, 21:34, 21:40
1 Chronicles: 6:1, 6:16, 6:19, 6:29, 6:44, 6:47, 6:63, 6:77, 9:14, 15:6, 15:17, 23:6, 23:21, 24:26, 24:27, 26:10, 26:19
2 Chronicles: 29:12, 34:12
Ezra: 8:19

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.