"dog" — traditionally read as wholehearted devotion · Hebrew
About
One of the twelve spies sent into Canaan; with Joshua he alone urged Israel to trust God and take the land. For his faith God promised him an inheritance, and at eighty-five he claimed the hill country of Hebron, driving out its giants — a model of wholehearted devotion.
RelativeOthnielKinsman, read as Caleb's brother or brother's son, who took Debir and married Achsah
Key Scripture AppearancesKJV
Numbers 13:30
And Caleb stilled the people before Moses, and said, Let us go up at once, and possess it; for we are well able to overcome it.Numbers 13:30, KJV
Numbers 14:24
But my servant Caleb, because he had another spirit with him, and hath followed me fully, him will I bring into the land whereinto he went; and his seed shall possess it.Numbers 14:24, KJV
Joshua 14:13
And Joshua blessed him, and gave unto Caleb the son of Jephunneh Hebron for an inheritance.Joshua 14:13, KJV
Joshua 15:14
And Caleb drove thence the three sons of Anak, Sheshai, and Ahiman, and Talmai, the children of Anak.Joshua 15:14, KJV
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