(the God of deliverance ).

1. The name of a son of David, one of the children born to him after his establishment in Jerusalem. ( 1 Chronicles 3:6 ) (B.C. after 1044.)
2. Another son of David, belonging also to the Jerusalem family, and apparently the last of his sons. ( 1 Chronicles 3:8 )
3. One of the thirty warriors of Davids guard. ( 2 Samuel 23:34 )
4. Son of Eshek, a descendant of King Saul through Jonathan. ( 1 Chronicles 8:39 ) (B.C. before 536.)
5. One of the leaders of the Bene-Adonikam who returned from Babylon with Ezra. ( Ezra 8:13 ) (B.C. 459.)
6. A man of the Bene-Hushum in the time of Ezra who had married a foreign wife. ( Ezra 10:33 ) (B.C. 458).