Levi
third-born son of Jacob (GEN 29:34), son of Leah
PersonTribe of Levimale56 verses
Names
- Levi — לֵוִֽי levi (H3878) · Λευι Levi (G3017) — Genesis 29:34
Family
- father of Gershon (inferred)
- father of Kohath (inferred)
- father of Merari (inferred)
- father of Miniamin (distributed portions to their brothers) (inferred)
- father of Jeshua (distributed portions to their brothers) (inferred)
- father of Shemaiah (distributed portions to their brothers) (inferred)
- father of Amariah (distributed portions to their brothers) (inferred)
- father of Shecaniah (distributed portions to their brothers) (inferred)
- father of Mattaniah (grandfather of Hanan) (inferred)
Ancestry
- ancestor of Ira (the Jairite, priest to David) (inferred)
- ancestor of Jehoiada (the priest who protected Joash in his youth) (inferred)
- ancestor of Bakbakkar (inferred)
- ancestor of Heresh (inferred)
- ancestor of Asaph (father of Zichri, singer) (inferred)
- ancestor of Jeduthun (inferred)
- ancestor of Elkanah (lived in the villages of the Netophathites) (inferred)
- ancestor of Zechariah (second rank Levite, gatekeeper, a trumpeter) (inferred)
- ancestor of Ben (inferred)
- ancestor of Jaaziel (inferred)
- ancestor of Shemiramoth (second rank Levite, gatekeeper) (inferred)
- ancestor of Jehiel (second rank Levite, gatekeeper, son of Ladan…) (inferred)
- ancestor of Unni (second rank Levite, gatekeeper) (inferred)
- ancestor of Eliab (second rank Levite, gatekeeper) (inferred)
- ancestor of Benaiah (second rank Levite, gatekeeper, a trumpeter) (inferred)
- ancestor of Maaseiah (second rank Levite, gatekeeper) (inferred)
- ancestor of Mattithiah (second rank Levite, gatekeeper) (inferred)
- ancestor of Eliphelehu (inferred)
- ancestor of Mikneiah (inferred)
- ancestor of Obed-edom (second rank Levite, gatekeeper, the south gate) (inferred)
- ancestor of Jeiel (second rank Levite, gatekeeper) (inferred)
- ancestor of Aziel (inferred)
- ancestor of Azaziah (lyre-playing Levite) (inferred)
- ancestor of Chenaniah (inferred)
- ancestor of Shebaniah (trumpeter) (inferred)
- ancestor of Joshaphat (trumpeter) (inferred)
- ancestor of Nethanel (trumpeter) (inferred)
- ancestor of Eliezer (trumpeter) (inferred)
- ancestor of Jehiah (inferred)
- ancestor of Hosah (inferred)
- ancestor of Shuppim (inferred)
- ancestor of Kemuel (father of Hashabiah) (inferred)
- ancestor of Shemaiah (Levite sent by Jehoshaphat) (inferred)
- ancestor of Nethaniah (Levite sent by Jehoshaphat) (inferred)
- ancestor of Zebadiah (Levite sent by Jehoshaphat) (inferred)
- ancestor of Asahel (Levite sent by Jehoshaphat) (inferred)
- ancestor of Shemiramoth (Levite sent by Jehoshaphat) (inferred)
- ancestor of Jehonathan (Levite sent by Jehoshaphat) (inferred)
- ancestor of Adonijah (Levite sent by Jehoshaphat) (inferred)
- ancestor of Tobijah (Levite sent by Jehoshaphat) (inferred)
- ancestor of Tobadonijah (inferred)
- ancestor of Conaniah (inferred)
- ancestor of Shimei (officer in charge of the consecrated things) (inferred)
- ancestor of Azaziah (overseer of the consecrated things under…) (inferred)
- ancestor of Nahath (overseer of the consecrated things under…) (inferred)
- ancestor of Asahel (overseer of the consecrated things under…) (inferred)
- ancestor of Jerimoth (overseer of the consecrated things under…) (inferred)
- ancestor of Jozabad (overseer of the consecrated things under…) (inferred)
- ancestor of Eliel (overseer of the consecrated things under…) (inferred)
- ancestor of Ismachiah (inferred)
- ancestor of Mahath (overseer of the consecrated things under…) (inferred)
- ancestor of Benaiah (overseer of the consecrated things under…) (inferred)
- ancestor of Imnah (father of Kore, the gatekeeper) (inferred)
- ancestor of Hodaviah (his sons (descendants) returned to Judah…)
- ancestor of Ater (his sons (descendants) returned to Judah…)
- ancestor of Hatita
- ancestor of Shobai
- ancestor of Ziha
- ancestor of Hasupha
- ancestor of Tabbaoth
- ancestor of Keros
- ancestor of Siaha
- ancestor of Padon
- ancestor of Lebanah
- ancestor of Hagabah
- ancestor of Akkub (temple servant, explained the law to the…)
- ancestor of Hagab
- ancestor of Shalmai
- ancestor of Hanan (temple servant, explained the law to the…)
- ancestor of Giddel (temple servant)
- ancestor of Gahar
- ancestor of Reaiah (temple servant)
- ancestor of Rezin (temple servant)
- ancestor of Nekoda
- ancestor of Gazzam
- ancestor of Uzza (temple servant)
- ancestor of Paseah (temple servant)
- ancestor of Besai
- ancestor of Asnah
- ancestor of Meunim
- ancestor of Nephisim
- ancestor of Bakbuk
- ancestor of Hakupha
- ancestor of Harhur
- ancestor of Bazluth
- ancestor of Mehida
- ancestor of Harsha
- ancestor of Barkos
- ancestor of Sisera (temple servant)
- ancestor of Temah
- ancestor of Neziah
- ancestor of Hatipha
- ancestor of Shealtiel (father of Zerubbabel) (inferred)
- ancestor of Zechariah (descendant of Shecaniah, a Levite Ezra sent…) (inferred)
- ancestor of Eliezer (Priest Ezra sent to Iddo, married a foreign…) (inferred)
- ancestor of Ariel (Levite Ezra sent to Iddo) (inferred)
- ancestor of Shemaiah (Levite Ezra sent to Iddo) (inferred)
- ancestor of Elnathan (Levite Ezra sent to Iddo) (inferred)
- ancestor of Elnathan (second Levite Ezra sent to Iddo named Elnathan) (inferred)
- ancestor of Nathan (Levite Ezra sent to Iddo) (inferred)
- ancestor of Meshullam (Levite Ezra sent to Iddo) (inferred)
- ancestor of Joiarib (Levite teacher Ezra sent to Iddo) (inferred)
- ancestor of Elnathan (Levite teacher Ezra sent to Iddo) (inferred)
- ancestor of Iddo (the leading man at the place Casiphia) (inferred)
- ancestor of Binnui (father of Noadiah) (inferred)
- ancestor of Shabbethai (the Levite who opposed Israel's decision to…) (inferred)
- ancestor of Jozabad (Levite who had married a foreign wife) (inferred)
- ancestor of Shimei (Levite who had married a foreign wife) (inferred)
- ancestor of Kelaiah (inferred)
- ancestor of Pethahiah (Levite who had married a foreign wife) (inferred)
- ancestor of Judah (Levite who had married a foreign wife) (inferred)
- ancestor of Eliashib (Levite singer who had married a foreign wife) (inferred)
- ancestor of Shallum (Levite singer who had married a foreign wife) (inferred)
- ancestor of Telem (inferred)
- ancestor of Uri (Levite gatekeeper who had married a foreign…) (inferred)
- ancestor of Mattithiah (stood on Ezra's right hand as he read from…) (inferred)
- ancestor of Shema (stood on Ezra's right hand as he read from…) (inferred)
- ancestor of Anaiah (stood on Ezra's right hand as he read from…) (inferred)
- ancestor of Uriah (stood on Ezra's right hand as he read from…) (inferred)
- ancestor of Maaseiah (stood on Ezra's right hand as he read from…) (inferred)
- ancestor of Pedaiah (stood on Ezra's left hand as he read from the…) (inferred)
- ancestor of Mishael (stood on Ezra's left hand as he read from the…) (inferred)
- ancestor of Hashum (his sons (descendants) returned to Judah…) (inferred)
- ancestor of Hashbaddanah (inferred)
- ancestor of Zechariah (2CH 26:5, the prophet of the book of…) (inferred)
- ancestor of Meshullam (stood on Ezra's left hand as he read from the…) (inferred)
- ancestor of Jeshua (explained the law to the people, stood on the…) (inferred)
- ancestor of Bani (explained the law to the people, stood on the…) (inferred)
- ancestor of Sherebiah (explained the law to the people, stood on the…) (inferred)
- ancestor of Jamin (explained the law to the people) (inferred)
- ancestor of Shabbethai (explained the law to the people) (inferred)
- ancestor of Hodiah (explained the law to the people and exhorted…) (inferred)
- ancestor of Kelita (inferred)
- ancestor of Jozabad (explained the law to the people) (inferred)
- ancestor of Pelaiah (explained the law to the people) (inferred)
- ancestor of Kadmiel (stood on the Levites platform and exhorted…) (inferred)
- ancestor of Shebaniah (stood on the Levites platform and exhorted…) (inferred)
- ancestor of Bunni (stood on the Levites platform) (inferred)
- ancestor of Bani (the other Bani who stood on the Levites…) (inferred)
- ancestor of Chenani (inferred)
- ancestor of Hashabneiah (exhorted Israel to bless the Lord) (inferred)
- ancestor of Pethahiah (exhorted Israel to bless the Lord) (inferred)
- ancestor of Rehob (a Levite) (inferred)
- ancestor of Hashabiah (a Levite) (inferred)
- ancestor of Zaccur (a Levite) (inferred)
- ancestor of Shebaniah (second Levite named Shebaniah in the sealed…) (inferred)
- ancestor of Hodiah (one of two individuals named Hodiah in the…) (inferred)
- ancestor of Beninu (inferred)
- ancestor of Gishpa (inferred)
- ancestor of Judah (among the Levites who came up with Zerubabbel) (inferred)
- ancestor of Unni (among the Levites who came up with Zerubabbel) (inferred)
- ancestor of Obadiah (Levite gatekeeper) (inferred)
- ancestor of Milalai (inferred)
- ancestor of Gilalai (inferred)
- ancestor of Maai (inferred)
- ancestor of Jezrahiah (inferred)
- ancestor of Joseph (a Levite of Cyprian birth) (inferred)
Siblings
- brother of Judah (fourth-born son of Jacob, son of Leah) (inferred)
- half-brother of Dan (inferred)
- half-brother of Naphtali (inferred)
- half-brother of Gad (seventh-born son of Jacob, son of Zilpah…) (inferred)
- half-brother of Asher (inferred)
- brother of Issachar (ninth-born son of Jacob, son of Leah) (inferred)
- brother of Zebulun (inferred)
- brother of Dinah (inferred)
- half-brother of Joseph (eleventh-born son of Jacob and Rachel) (inferred)
- half-brother of Benjamin (twelfth-born son of Jacob and Rachel) (inferred)
Associations
- killer of Hamor
- killer of Shechem (son of Hamor, the Hivite who raped Dinah)
Dated events
- Birth of Levi* — 2,257 AH · 1,756 BC (Ussher) · aged 0 — Genesis 29:34
- Death of Levi — 2,394 AH · 1,619 BC (Ussher) · aged 137 — Exodus 6:16
Years are anno hominis, counted from Creation. The two chronologies are given as the source gives them, unreconciled.
Birthplace
- Paddan-aram — Birth of Levi* (Genesis 35:26)
Place of death
- Egypt — Death of Levi
Named together
Appearances
- Genesis 29:34
- Genesis 34:25
- Genesis 34:30
- Genesis 35:23
- Genesis 46:11
- Genesis 49:5
- Exodus 1:2
- Exodus 2:1
- Exodus 6:16
- Exodus 32:26
- Exodus 32:28
- Numbers 1:49
and 44 further references.