Eber (Hastings' Dictionary)

1. The eponymous ancestor of the Hebrews (which see), great-grandson of Shem, son of Shelah, and father of Peleg and Joktan (Gn 10'«- ll""-, 1 Ch !'«• '»•"), perhaps used noetic ally for Israel in Nu 24" (but see Dillm. act he.) EBEZ ECCLESIASTES 637 S. The representative of the priestly family of Amok in the days of Joiakim, Neh 12. 3. A Gadite family name, 1 Ch S". 4. 5. The name of two Ueujamite families, 1 Ch 8"- ". See Gene- Ueuj ALOOV J. A. Selgie. EBEZ (fjtf). 'white.' — A city of Issachar (Jos 19*). The site is uncertain. Probably the ruin El-Beidhth, 'the white," east of Carmel. SWP vol. i. sheet v. C. R. CONDER.