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Caleb
People's Dictionary of the Bible
or Caleb (kâ'leb), capable. 1. According to 1 Chronicles 2:9, where he is called Chelubai (kç-lû'bâi), 18, 19, 42, 50, the son of Hezron, the son of Pharez, the son of Judah, and the father of Hur, and consequently grandfather of Caleb, one of the twelve spies. 2. The son of Jephunneh, one of the twelve spies sent by Moses to Canaan. Numbers 13:6. He and Oshea, or Joshua the son of Nun, were the only two who brought a favorable report and encouraged the people boldly to take possession of the land. Forty-five years afterwards Caleb came to Joshua and claimed possession of the land of the Anakim, Kirjath-arba or Hebron, and the neighboring hill country. Joshua 14:1-15. This was immediately granted to him, and the following chapter relates how he took possession of Hebron, driving out the three sons of Anak; and how he offered Achsah his daughter in marriage to whoever would take Kiriath-sepher, i.e., Debir, and when Othniel, his brother or nephew, had performed the feat, he not only gave him his daughter to wife, but with her the upper and nether springs of water which she desired. Joshua 15:16-19.
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Rice, Edwin Wilbur, DD. Entry for 'Caleb'. People's Dictionary of the Bible. https://www.studylight.org/dictionaries/eng/rpd/c/caleb.html. 1893.
