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Son of Phinehas in the high-priestly genealogy.
Kohathite Levite in 1 Chronicles 6:25; some treat as a variant of Mahath in the parallel list.
Son of Meraioth and father of Ahitub in the high-priestly genealogy. Multiple priestly Amariahs appear; this is the elder one.
Kohathite Levite in the ancestry of Heman the singer.
Son of Abishua in the high-priestly genealogy.
High priest at Shiloh in the Ithamarite line; raised Samuel. Failed to restrain his wicked sons Hophni and Phinehas. Died at age 98 when he heard the ark had been captured by the Philistines, falling backward and breaking his neck. Judged Israel forty years.
Eliel · Elihu
Kohathite Levite, father of Jeroham and grandfather of Elkanah father of Samuel; named Eliel in 1 Chronicles 6:34 and Elihu in 1 Samuel 1:1.
Kohathite Levite ancestor of Heman the singer; one of three Elkanahs in the Kohathite line of 1 Chronicles 6.
Ephraimite by residence (Ramathaim-zophim) but Levite of the Kohathite line by genealogy (1 Chronicles 6:33-38); husband of Hannah and Peninnah; father of Samuel.
Son of Eli; took meat from sacrifices by force and lay with the women at the tabernacle door. Killed at Aphek when the ark was captured.
Son of Phinehas son of Eli; named at his birth ('the glory is gone') because the ark of Yahweh had been captured.
Kohathite Levite, father of Elkanah and grandfather of Samuel.
Levite descended from Moses (Manasseh in MT, by scribal alteration); priest first to Micah and then to the Danite shrine; his sons were priests until the captivity of the land.
Son of Zerahiah in the high-priestly genealogy. A second Meraioth appears later in the line (1 Chronicles 9:11; Nehemiah 11:11).
Toah · Tohu
Kohathite Levite ancestor of Samuel; called Toah in 1 Chronicles 6:34 and Tohu in 1 Samuel 1:1.
Son of Eli; co-officiant with Hophni in their corruption. Killed at Aphek; his pregnant widow named her son Ichabod ('the glory has departed') as she died in childbirth. Distinct from Phinehas son of Eleazar.
Kohathite Levite ancestor of Heman the singer (1 Chronicles 6:24). Distinct from Saul king of Israel and Shaul son of Simeon.
Kohathite Levite ancestor of Heman the singer; chief of the Kohathites who helped bring up the ark in David's day.
Son of Bukki in the high-priestly genealogy. Distinct from other figures named Uzzi (the Issacharite, Benjamite, and Levite Merarite).
Kohathite Levite in the line from Korah to Heman the singer (1 Chronicles 6:24). Distinct from king Uzziah of Judah.
Son of Uzzi in the high-priestly genealogy.
Zuph
Kohathite Levite ancestor of Samuel and of Heman the singer; called Zuph in 1 Samuel 1:1 (the Ramathaim-zophim region takes its name from him).
Curation status: Primeval (Genesis 1–11), patriarchs (Genesis 12–50), Exodus/Numbers, Joshua/Judges/Ruth, the united and divided monarchies (Saul, David, all kings of Judah and Israel), the writing prophets, post-exilic figures (Zerubbabel, Ezra, Nehemiah, Esther), the Holy Family, John the Baptist, the Twelve, and the early apostolic generation are all in. 2,781figures curated so far. The remaining named biblical figures (priestly genealogies in 1 Chronicles, the post-exile lists in Ezra/Nehemiah, the obscure persons in Acts and the epistles) are pending. Every claim is rigorously sourced; gaps mean “not yet curated”, not “not in scripture”.