Merari

"Bitter", "Unhappy." The youngest son of Levi.1 His descendants, called the Merarites, formed one of the three great divisions of the Levitical tribes.2

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References

Notes

  1. Gen. 46:11; Ex. 6:16, 19.
  2. Num. 26:57.

Source

  • Bastow, Rev. James Austin. (1859). A Biblical Dictionary. London: Longman, Brown, Longmans, and Roberts.