Eliab [Ĕlī'āb]—god is a father.

1. A son of Helon and leader of the tribe of Zebulun when the census was taken in the wilderness (Num. 1:9; 2:7; 7:24, 29).
2. A son of Pallu or Phallu, a Reubenite, and father of Dathan and Abiram (Num. 16:1, 12; 26:8, 9; Deut. 11:6).
3. The eldest son of Jesse and brother of David (1 Sam. 16:6; 17:13, 28). Called Elihu in 1 Chronicles 27:18.
4. A Levite in David’s time who was a Tabernacle porter and musician (1 Chron. 15:18, 20; 16:5).
5. A Gadite warrior who with others came over to David when a fugitive in the wilderness (1 Chron. 12:9).
6. An ancestor of Samuel the prophet; a Kohathite Levite (1 Chron. 6:27). Called Elihu in 1 Samuel 1:1 and Eliel in 1 Chronicles 6:34.