Bible Person
Meaning: window; grief · Male · 5 cross references
Helon is remembered as the father of Eliab, the Zebulunite chief in the wilderness generation. His significance is carried through the repeated naming of his son in Israel's census, offerings, and camp order. First appears in Num 1:9.1
AI summary: Helon matters because the cross references preserve him as the paternal marker behind Zebulun's tribal leadership in the wilderness. Though he does not act directly in the narrative, his name is repeated wherever Eliab stands for the tribe, which ties public representation to remembered household identity. This is a recurring pattern in the wilderness records. Taken together, the material presents Helon as the remembered father behind Zebulun's camp leadership.1
Central Figure
Helon
Meaning: window; grief
Strong, father of Eliab, who was “captain of the children of Zebulun” (Num.
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Alistair de Blacquiere-Clarkson, “ai-BIBLE Bible Names JSON Factsheet Aggregating Material from Smith’s Bible Dictionary & Hitcocks’s New and Complete Analysis of the Bible.” ai-BIBLE electronic edition, version 1.0.
M.G.Easton, Illustrated Bible Dictionary, ai-BIBLE electronic edition, version 1.0.
Robert Rouse, “Theographic Bible Information,” Theographic-Bible-Metadata, 2020, https://github.com/robertrouse/theographic-bible-metadata.