All tribes

Tribe of Israel

Levi

About

The priestly tribe, set apart for service of the tabernacle and temple. Did not receive a contiguous territorial inheritance but was given forty-eight cities throughout the land (Numbers 35; Joshua 21). Includes the Aaronic priesthood.

Jacob's curse

Genesis 49:5-7 (WEB)
Simeon and Levi are brothers. Their swords are weapons of violence. My soul, don't come into their council. My glory, don't be united to their assembly; for in their anger they killed men. In their self-will they hamstrung cattle. Cursed be their anger, for it was fierce; and their wrath, for it was cruel. I will divide them in Jacob, and scatter them in Israel.

Sub-tribes

Members 503

Aaron
Wilderness· 123 yrs
Abda son of Shammua (Jeduthunite)
Return
Abdi (father of Kish, Merarite)
Divided kingdom
Abiathar
United kingdom
Abihail (of Merari)
Wilderness
Abihu
Wilderness
Abijah (priestly course)
United kingdom
Abijah (returnee priest)
Return
Abijah (son of Samuel)
United kingdom
Abishua
Judges
Adaiah son of Jeroham (priest)
Return
Adaiah son of Jeroham (priest)
Return
Adiel (priest)
Exile
Adna of Harim
Return
Adonijah (Levite of Jehoshaphat)
Divided kingdom
Ahijah the Shilonite
United kingdom
Ahimaaz son of Zadok
United kingdom
Ahiman (gatekeeper)
Return
Ahimelech
United kingdom
Ahimoth
Judges
Ahitub (father of Zadok II)
Divided kingdom
Ahitub (father of Zadok)
United kingdom
Ahzai son of Meshillemoth
Exile
Akkub (gatekeeper)
Return
Alcimus
Intertestamental
Amariah (chief priest under Jehoshaphat)
Divided kingdom
Amariah (Hebronite Levite)
United kingdom
Amariah (Levite distributor)
Divided kingdom
Amariah (returnee priest)
Return
Amariah (son of Meraioth)
Judges
Amasai (father of Mahath, Kohathite)
Divided kingdom
Amasai (Kohathite Levite)
Judges
Amashsai son of Azarel
Return
Ammiel son of Obed-edom
United kingdom
Amminadab (Kohathite Levite)
Egyptian sojourn
Amok
Return
Amram
Egyptian sojourn· 137 yrs
Amzi son of Zechariah (priestly line)
Exile
Ananias son of Nedebaeus (high priest)
Apostolic
Annas
Ministry of Christ
Asa (Levite ancestor)
Exile
Asahel (Levite of Jehoshaphat)
Divided kingdom
Asahel (tithe overseer)
Divided kingdom
Asaph
United kingdom
Asaph (father of Kore)
Wilderness
Asarelah son of Asaph
United kingdom
Assir (son of Korah)
Wilderness
Ater (gatekeeper)
Return
Azarel (wall-dedication trumpeter)
Return
Azarel son of Ahzai
Return
Azariah (father of Joel, Kohathite)
Divided kingdom
Azariah (father of Seraiah)
Divided kingdom
Azariah (priest in the temple of Solomon)
Divided kingdom
Azariah (priest under Solomon)
United kingdom
Azariah son of Hilkiah
Return
Azariah son of Jehallelel (Merarite)
Divided kingdom
Azariah son of Zadok
United kingdom
Azaziah (tithe overseer)
Divided kingdom
Azrikam (Levite ancestor)
Exile
Azrikam son of Hashabiah (Levite)
Exile
Bakbakkar
Return
Bakbukiah
Return
Bakbukiah (second of his brothers)
Return
Bani (father of Rehum the Levite)
Return
Bani son of Hashabiah (Levite)
Return
Barnabas
Apostolic
Bavvai son of Henadad
Return
Benaiah (tithe overseer)
Divided kingdom
Beno (Merarite Levite)
United kingdom
Berechiah son of Asa
Return
Berekiah (father of Asaph)
United kingdom
Beriah (Gershonite)
United kingdom
Bilgah
United kingdom
Bilgah (returnee priest)
Return
Binnui (Levite, returnee)
Return
Binnui son of Henadad
Return
Bukki
Judges
Bukkiah son of Heman
United kingdom
Bunni (Levite ancestor)
Exile
Buzi
Exile
Caiaphas
Ministry of Christ
Chenaniah (chief of the singers)
United kingdom
Conaniah (Levite chief under Josiah)
Divided kingdom
Cononiah (chief overseer of tithes)
Divided kingdom
Daniel (descendant of Ithamar)
Return
Delaiah (priestly course 23)
United kingdom
Eber of Amok
Return
Ebiasaph
Wilderness
Eden son of Joah (Gershonite)
Divided kingdom
Eder (Merarite Levite)
United kingdom
Elam (wall-dedication singer)
Return
Elam son of Meshelemiah
United kingdom
Elasah son of Pashhur (priest)
Return
Elasah son of Pashhur (priest)
Return
Eleazar (son of Aaron)
Wilderness
Eleazar (son of Mahli the Merarite)
United kingdom
Eleazar (wall-dedication singer)
Return
Eleazar Avaran
Intertestamental
Eleazar son of Phinehas (returnee priest)
Return
Eli
Judges· 98 yrs
Eliab (Kohathite Levite)
Judges
Eliakim (wall-dedication trumpeter)
Return
Eliasaph son of Lael
Wilderness
Eliashib (high priest)
Return
Eliashib (priestly course)
United kingdom
Eliashib (singer, Ezra 10)
Return
Eliathah son of Heman
United kingdom
Eliehoenai son of Meshelemiah
United kingdom
Eliel (tithe overseer)
Divided kingdom
Eliezer (Levite, Ezra 10)
Return
Eliezer (son of Moses)
Wilderness
Eliezer son of Jeshua (priest)
Return
Eliezer son of Jeshua (priest)
Return
Elihoreph son of Shisha
United kingdom
Elihu son of Shemaiah
United kingdom
Elijah son of Harim (priest)
Return
Elijah son of Harim (priest)
Return
Elioenai (wall-dedication trumpeter)
Return
Elioenai son of Pashhur (priest)
Return
Elioenai son of Pashhur (priest)
Return
Elishama (priest of Jehoshaphat)
Divided kingdom
Elizabeth
Ministry of Christ
Elizaphan son of Uzziel
Wilderness
Elkanah (father of Samuel)
Judges
Elkanah (Kohathite Levite)
Judges
Elkanah (Netophathite Levite)
Exile
Elkanah (son of Korah)
Wilderness
Elzabad son of Shemaiah
United kingdom
Ethan the Merarite (Levitical singer)
United kingdom
Ezekiel
Exile
Ezer (wall-dedication singer)
Return
Ezra
Return
Galal (Levite)
Return
Galal (son of Jeduthun)
Exile
Gamul (priestly course 22)
United kingdom
Gedaliah (brother of Maaseiah) (priest)
Return
Gedaliah son of Jeduthun
United kingdom
Gedaliah son of Jeshua (priest)
Return
Gershom
Wilderness
Gershom (descendant of Phinehas)
Return
Gershon
Egyptian sojourn
Giddalti son of Heman
United kingdom
Gilalai
Return
Ginnethoi
Return
Hakkoz (priestly course)
United kingdom
Hanani (wall-dedication singer)
Return
Hanani son of Heman
United kingdom
Hanani son of Immer (priest, Ezra 10)
Return
Hanani son of Immer (priest)
Return
Hananiah (wall-dedication trumpeter)
Return
Hananiah of Jeremiah
Return
Hananiah son of Heman
United kingdom
Happizzez
United kingdom
Haran (Gershonite)
United kingdom
Harim (priest, sealer)
Return
Harim (priestly course)
United kingdom
Hashabiah (Levite ancestor)
Exile
Hashabiah (Levite chief under Josiah)
Divided kingdom
Hashabiah of Hilkiah
Return
Hashabiah ruler of half of Keilah
Return
Hashabiah son of Bunni (Levite)
Exile
Hashabiah son of Jeduthun
United kingdom
Hashabiah son of Kemuel
United kingdom
Hashabiah son of Mattaniah (Asaphite)
Exile
Hashabiah son of Merari (returnee)
Return
Hasshub (Levite)
Exile
Hasshub son of Azrikam (Levite)
Return
Hatita
Return
Hattush (returnee priest)
Return
Haziel
United kingdom
Hebron (son of Kohath)
Egyptian sojourn
Helkai
Return
Heman the Ezrahite (Levitical singer)
United kingdom
Henadad
Exile
Heresh (Levite)
Return
Hezir (priest)
United kingdom
Hilkiah (high priest under Josiah)
Divided kingdom
Hilkiah (returnee priest)
Return
Hilkiah son of Hosah
United kingdom
Hodiah (Levite)
Return
Hophni
Judges
Hosah
United kingdom
Hothir son of Heman
United kingdom
Huppah
United kingdom
Ibri (Merarite Levite)
United kingdom
Ichabod
Judges
Iddo at Casiphia
Return
Immer (priestly course)
United kingdom
Imnah the Levite
Divided kingdom
Ishmael son of Pashhur (priest)
Return
Ishmael son of Pashhur (priest)
Return
Ismachiah (tithe overseer)
Divided kingdom
Issachar son of Obed-edom
United kingdom
Isshiah (son of Rehabiah)
United kingdom
Isshiah (Uzzielite)
United kingdom
Ithamar
Wilderness
Izhar
Egyptian sojourn
Jaaziah (son of Merari)
United kingdom
Jaaziel (Levite musician)
United kingdom
Jachin (priestly course)
United kingdom
Jaddua (high priest)
Return
Jahath (Gershonite chief)
United kingdom
Jahath (Merarite overseer under Josiah)
Divided kingdom
Jahaziel (Hebronite Levite)
United kingdom
Jahzerah
Exile
Jakim (priestly course)
United kingdom
Jarib (brother of Maaseiah) (priest)
Return
Jarib son of Jeshua (priest)
Return
Jason (Hellenizing high priest)
Intertestamental
Jathniel
United kingdom
Jeatherai
Wilderness
Jedaiah (priestly course)
United kingdom
Jedaiah (returnee priest)
Return
Jedaiah (second returnee priest)
Return
Jediael son of Meshelemiah
United kingdom
Jeduthun
United kingdom
Jehezkel (priestly course 20)
United kingdom
Jehiah (doorkeeper)
United kingdom
Jehiel (Hemanite, Hezekiah's reform)
Divided kingdom
Jehiel (son of Laadan)
United kingdom
Jehiel son of Harim (priest)
Return
Jehiel son of Harim (priest)
Return
Jehohanan (wall-dedication singer)
Return
Jehohanan of Amariah
Return
Jehohanan son of Meshelemiah
United kingdom
Jehoiada (high priest)
Divided kingdom· 130 yrs
Jehoiada the Aaronite leader
United kingdom
Jehoiarib
United kingdom
Jehonathan (Levite of Jehoshaphat)
Divided kingdom
Jehonathan of Shemaiah
Return
Jehoram (priest of Jehoshaphat)
Divided kingdom
Jehozabad son of Obed-edom
United kingdom
Jehozadak
Exile
Jeiel (Elizaphanite)
Divided kingdom
Jeiel (Levite chief under Josiah)
Divided kingdom
Jekameam
United kingdom
Jerahmeel (Merarite Levite)
United kingdom
Jeremiah
Exile
Jeremiah (returnee priest)
Return
Jeremoth (Merarite Levite)
United kingdom
Jeriah (Hebronite chief)
United kingdom
Jerimoth (tithe overseer)
Divided kingdom
Jerimoth son of Heman
United kingdom
Jeroham (father of Elkanah)
Judges
Jeroham son of Pelaliah
Return
Jeshaiah of Merari
Return
Jeshaiah son of Jeduthun
United kingdom
Jeshebeab
United kingdom
Jeshua (Levite distributor)
Divided kingdom
Jeshua (Levite, returnee)
Return
Jeshua (priestly course)
United kingdom
Jeshua son of Jehozadak (high priest)
Return
Jeush (Gershonite)
United kingdom
Jezrahiah (overseer of singers)
Return
Joacim (high priest in Judith)
Intertestamental
Joah son of Obed-edom
United kingdom
Joah son of Zimmah (Gershonite)
Divided kingdom
Jochebed
Egyptian sojourn
Joel (firstborn of Samuel)
United kingdom
Joel (Gershonite son of Jehieli)
United kingdom
Joel son of Azariah (Kohathite)
Divided kingdom
Johanan (high-priestly line)
Divided kingdom
John (father of Mattathias)
Intertestamental
John Gaddi
Intertestamental
John Hyrcanus I
Intertestamental
John the Baptist
Ministry of Christ
Joiada (high priest of post-exile)
Return
Joiakim (high priest)
Return
Joiarib (returnee priest)
Return
Jonathan (Asaphite ancestor)
Return
Jonathan / Johanan (high priest)
Return
Jonathan Apphus
Intertestamental
Jonathan of Melichu
Return
Jonathan son of Abiathar
United kingdom
Jonathan son of Gershom
Judges
Joram (Levite ancestor)
United kingdom
Joseph of Shebaniah
Return
Joseph son of Asaph
United kingdom
Joshbekashah son of Heman
United kingdom
Joshua (post-exilic high priest)
Return
Jozabad (Levite chief under Josiah)
Divided kingdom
Jozabad (tithe overseer)
Divided kingdom
Jozabad son of Jeshua
Return
Jozabad son of Pashhur (priest)
Return
Jozabad son of Pashhur (priest)
Return
Judah (Levite, Ezra 10)
Return
Judah (Levite)
Return
Judah (wall-dedication singer)
Return
Judas Maccabeus
Intertestamental
Kadmiel
Return
Kallai
Return
Kelaiah (Kelita)
Return
Kelita
Return
Kemuel (father of Hashabiah)
United kingdom
Kish (Merarite Levite)
United kingdom
Kish son of Abdi (Merarite)
Divided kingdom
Kishi (Merarite Levite)
United kingdom
Kohath
Egyptian sojourn· 133 yrs
Korah (son of Izhar)
Wilderness
Kore (father of Meshelemiah)
United kingdom
Kore son of Imnah the Levite
Divided kingdom
Laadan (Gershonite Levite)
United kingdom
Lael (of Gershon)
Wilderness
Levi
Patriarchal· 137 yrs
Libni
Egyptian sojourn
Maadiah
Return
Maai
Return
Maasai son of Adiel
Return
Maaseiah (wall-dedication singer)
Return
Maaseiah (wall-dedication trumpeter)
Return
Maaseiah son of Harim (priest)
Return
Maaseiah son of Harim (priest)
Return
Maaseiah son of Jeshua (priest)
Return
Maaseiah son of Jeshua (priest)
Return
Maaseiah son of Pashhur (priest)
Return
Maaseiah son of Pashhur (priest)
Return
Maaziah (priestly course 24)
United kingdom
Mahath son of Amasai
Divided kingdom
Mahazioth son of Heman
United kingdom
Mahli (son of Merari)
Egyptian sojourn
Mahli (son of Mushi)
United kingdom
Malchijah (priestly course)
United kingdom
Malchijah (wall-dedication singer)
Return
Mallothi son of Heman
United kingdom
Malluch (returnee priest)
Return
Mattaniah (Asaphite, Hezekiah's reform)
Divided kingdom
Mattaniah son of Heman
United kingdom
Mattaniah son of Mica (Asaphite ancestor of Uzzi)
Exile
Mattaniah son of Mica (Asaphite)
Return
Mattathias
Intertestamental
Mattenai (of Joiarib)
Return
Mattithiah son of Jeduthun
United kingdom
Menelaus (Hellenizing high priest)
Intertestamental
Meraiah
Return
Meraioth (high-priestly line)
Judges
Merari
Egyptian sojourn
Meremoth (returnee priest)
Return
Meremoth son of Uriah son of Hakkoz
Return
Meshelemiah
United kingdom
Meshillemith
Exile
Meshillemoth son of Immer (priest)
Exile
Meshullam (head of Ezra family)
Return
Meshullam (Kohathite overseer under Josiah)
Divided kingdom
Meshullam (priest, ancestor of Maasai)
Exile
Meshullam of Ginnethon
Return
Miamin (returnee priest)
Return
Mica (Asaphite)
Exile
Mica son of Zabdi (Asaphite)
Exile
Micah (Uzzielite Levite)
United kingdom
Micaiah (wall-dedication trumpeter)
Return
Micaiah son of Zaccur (Asaphite)
Return
Mijamin
United kingdom
Mijamin (priestly course 6)
United kingdom
Mijamin (returnee priest)
Return
Milalai
Return
Miniamin (Levite distributor)
Divided kingdom
Miniamin (wall-dedication trumpeter)
Return
Miriam
Wilderness
Mishael son of Uzziel
Wilderness
Moses
Wilderness· 120 yrs
Mushi
Egyptian sojourn
Nadab (son of Aaron)
Wilderness
Nahath (Kohathite Levite)
Judges
Nahath (tithe overseer)
Divided kingdom
Nepheg son of Izhar
Egyptian sojourn
Nethanel (Levite chief under Josiah)
Divided kingdom
Nethanel (wall-dedication singer)
Return
Nethanel of Jedaiah
Return
Nethanel son of Obed-edom
United kingdom
Nethanel son of Pashhur (priest)
Return
Nethanel son of Pashhur (priest)
Return
Nethaniah (Levite of Jehoshaphat)
Divided kingdom
Nethaniah son of Asaph
United kingdom
Noadiah son of Binnui
Return
Obadiah (Merarite overseer under Josiah)
Divided kingdom
Obadiah (priest, sealer)
Return
Obadiah son of Shemaiah (Jeduthunite)
Return
Obed son of Shemaiah
United kingdom
Obed-edom the Gittite
United kingdom
Onias III
Intertestamental
Othni son of Shemaiah
United kingdom
Pashhur (returnee priestly clan head)
Exile
Pashhur son of Immer
Divided kingdom
Pelaiah (Levite)
Return
Pelaliah son of Amzi
Exile
Pethahiah (Levite, Ezra 10)
Return
Pethahiah (priestly course 19)
United kingdom
Peullethai son of Obed-edom
United kingdom
Phinehas (son of Eleazar)
Wilderness
Phinehas (son of Eli)
Judges
Piltai
Return
Rehabiah (son of Eliezer)
United kingdom
Rehum (returnee priest)
Return
Rehum son of Bani
Return
Rephael son of Shemaiah
United kingdom
Romamti-ezer son of Heman
United kingdom
Sacar son of Obed-edom
United kingdom
Sallu (returnee priest)
Return
Samuel
United kingdom
Semachiah son of Shemaiah
United kingdom
Seorim
United kingdom
Seraiah (high priest at the fall of Jerusalem)
Exile
Seraiah (returnee priest)
Return
Seraiah son of Hilkiah (officer of the temple)
Return
Shabbethai (Levite, outside business)
Return
Shallum (chief gatekeeper)
Return
Shallum (gatekeeper, Ezra 10)
Return
Shallum (priest)
Divided kingdom
Shamir (son of Micah the Uzzielite)
United kingdom
Shammua of Bilgah
Return
Shammua son of Galal
Exile
Shaul (Kohathite Levite)
Judges
Shebaniah (returnee priest)
Return
Shebuel (son of Gershom son of Moses)
United kingdom
Shebuel son of Heman
United kingdom
Shecaniah (Levite distributor)
Divided kingdom
Shecaniah (priestly course)
United kingdom
Shecaniah (returnee priest)
Return
Shelomith (Izharite chief)
United kingdom
Shelomoth (Gershonite)
United kingdom
Shemaiah (Jeduthunite, Hezekiah's reform)
Divided kingdom
Shemaiah (Jeduthunite)
Exile
Shemaiah (Levite chief under Josiah)
Divided kingdom
Shemaiah (Levite distributor)
Divided kingdom
Shemaiah (Levite of Jehoshaphat)
Divided kingdom
Shemaiah (returnee priest)
Return
Shemaiah (wall-dedication singer)
Return
Shemaiah son of Harim (priest, Ezra 10)
Return
Shemaiah son of Harim (priest)
Return
Shemaiah son of Hasshub (Levite)
Return
Shemaiah son of Hasshub (Levite)
Return
Shemaiah son of Mattaniah (Asaphite)
Return
Shemaiah son of Obed-edom
United kingdom
Shemiramoth (Levite of Jehoshaphat)
Divided kingdom
Sherebiah
Return
Shimei (brother of Cononiah)
Divided kingdom
Shimei (Hemanite, Hezekiah's reform)
Divided kingdom
Shimei (Levite, Ezra 10)
Return
Shimei (son of Gershon)
Egyptian sojourn
Shimei son of Jeduthun
United kingdom
Shimri (Elizaphanite)
Divided kingdom
Shimri son of Hosah
United kingdom
Shobai
Return
Shoham (Merarite Levite)
United kingdom
Simeon (grandfather of Mattathias)
Intertestamental
Simon Thassi
Intertestamental
Sithri son of Uzziel
Wilderness
Tahath (Kohathite Levite)
Wilderness
Talmon
Return
Tebaliah son of Hosah
United kingdom
Telem (gatekeeper)
Return
Tobadonijah
Divided kingdom
Tobijah (Levite of Jehoshaphat)
Divided kingdom
Unni (Levite, post-exile)
Return
Uri (gatekeeper)
Return
Uriah son of Hakkoz
Return
Uriel (Kohathite Levite)
Judges
Uzzi (priest)
Judges
Uzzi (wall-dedication singer)
Return
Uzzi of Jedaiah
Return
Uzzi son of Bani (overseer of Levites)
Return
Uzziah (Kohathite Levite)
Judges
Uzziah son of Harim (priest)
Return
Uzziah son of Harim (priest)
Return
Uzziel (Jeduthunite, Hezekiah's reform)
Divided kingdom
Uzziel (son of Kohath)
Egyptian sojourn
Uzziel son of Heman
United kingdom
Zabdi son of Asaph
Exile
Zabdiel son of Haggedolim
Return
Zaccur (Levite, sealer)
Return
Zaccur (Merarite Levite)
United kingdom
Zaccur son of Asaph
United kingdom
Zadok
United kingdom
Zadok II (priest)
Divided kingdom
Zadok son of Immer (wall builder)
Return
Zadok the young warrior
United kingdom
Zebadiah (Levite of Jehoshaphat)
Divided kingdom
Zebadiah son of Immer (priest)
Return
Zebadiah son of Immer (priest)
Return
Zebadiah son of Meshelemiah
United kingdom
Zechariah (Asaphite, Hezekiah's reform)
Divided kingdom
Zechariah (Kohathite overseer under Josiah)
Divided kingdom
Zechariah (priest, father of John the Baptist)
Ministry of Christ
Zechariah (son of Isshiah the Uzzielite)
United kingdom
Zechariah (wall-dedication trumpeter)
Return
Zechariah of Iddo (priest of Joiakim)
Return
Zechariah son of Hosah
United kingdom
Zechariah son of Jehoiada
Divided kingdom
Zechariah son of Jonathan (Asaphite trumpeter)
Return
Zechariah son of Meshelemiah
United kingdom
Zechariah son of Pashhur (priestly line)
Exile
Zephaniah son of Maaseiah
Exile
Zerahiah
Judges
Zeri son of Jeduthun
United kingdom
Zetham (son of Jehieli)
United kingdom
Zichri (Asaphite)
Exile
Zichri (Izharite, father of Shelomith)
United kingdom
Zichri of Abijah
Return
Zichri son of Izhar
Egyptian sojourn
Zimmah (father of Joah, Gershonite)
Divided kingdom
Zizah (Gershonite)
United kingdom
Zophai
Judges
Zuriel son of Abihail
Wilderness