(talkative ).

1. The founder of an important family of priests. ( 1 Chronicles 9:12 ; Nehemiah 11:13 ) This family had charge of, and gave its name to, the sixteenth course of the service. ( 1 Chronicles 24:14 ) (B.C. 1014.)
2. Apparently the name of a place in Babylonia. ( Ezra 2:59 ; Nehemiah 7:61 )