(first-born ).

1. A priest in the time of David; the head of the fifteenth course for the temple service. ( 1 Chronicles 24:14 ) (B.C. 1015.)
2. A priest or priestly family who returned from Babylon with Zerubbabel and Jeshua. ( Nehemiah 12:5 Nehemiah 12:18 ) (B.C. 536.)