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Caleb

Born 1528 BC traditional (Jones)

The son of Jephunneh (Num. 13:6; 32:12; Josh. 14:6, 14). He was one of those whom Moses sent to search the land in the second year after the Exodus.

From Easton’s Bible Dictionary (1897).

Father
Jephunneh
Children
Elah, Iru, Naam, Achsah
Sibling
Kenaz
Tagged in
30 verses

Computed from the data. Years are traditional (Jones).

Family

Two generations up and the children; a button shows the grandchildren. Gold lines join partners; grey lines run from parent to child; a dotted line marks a parent named in the text but not by descent.

Stories

1 event in which Caleb takes part, in order of the traditional chronology. Years are traditional (Jones).

  1. 1528 BCBirth of CalebNum 13:6

Places

Places named in the same verses as Caleb, with the number of verses they share; a larger marker means more. Locations follow OpenBible.info, which grades each identification. A dashed ring on the map marks a region, river, or mountain rather than a town.

  1. likely location: Hebron4
  2. location not graded: Kiriath-sepher2
  3. possible location: Gilgal1
  4. likely location: Kadesh-barnea1
  5. location not graded: Negeb1

Timeline

The strip runs from Creation to AD 100; the shaded part, 1645–942 BC, is drawn below at a larger scale around these mentions, with 6 contemporaries. Years are traditional (Jones), shown as recorded, not as settled fact.

Mentions

30 tagged verses in 6 books. Select a book to read its verses.

  1. Numbers9
  2. Deuteronomy1
  3. Joshua9
  4. Judges6
  5. 1 Samuel1
  6. 1 Chronicles4

The name in each translation

TextOccurrences of each name
BSBCaleb 41
KJVCaleb 37
ASVCaleb 37

Whole-word, case-sensitive count of the name string (regex \bName\b, so possessives like "Abraham's" count) across the whole Bible text of each translation; this counts the string, not the person, so other people who share the name are included and pronoun references are not. How Begat counts

Every verse

All 30 tagged verses, by book, in canonical order. The Berean Standard Bible is shown; switch to the King James or American Standard Version.

Numbers9 verses
  1. 13:6

    from the tribe of Judah, Caleb son of Jephunneh;

  2. 13:30

    Then Caleb quieted the people before Moses and said, “We must go up and take possession of the land, for we can certainly conquer it!”

  3. 14:6

    Joshua son of Nun and Caleb son of Jephunneh, who were among those who had spied out the land, tore their clothes

  4. 14:24

    But because My servant Caleb has a different spirit and has followed Me wholeheartedly, I will bring him into the land he has entered, and his descendants will inherit it.

  5. 14:30

    Surely none of you will enter the land in which I swore to settle you, except Caleb son of Jephunneh and Joshua son of Nun.

  6. 14:38

    Of those men who had gone to spy out the land, only Joshua son of Nun and Caleb son of Jephunneh remained alive.

  7. 26:65

    For the LORD had told them that they would surely die in the wilderness. Not one was left except Caleb son of Jephunneh and Joshua son of Nun.

  8. 32:12

    not one except Caleb son of Jephunneh the Kenizzite and Joshua son of Nun—because they did follow the LORD wholeheartedly.’

  9. 34:19

    These are their names: Caleb son of Jephunneh from the tribe of Judah;

Deuteronomy1 verse
  1. 1:36

    except Caleb son of Jephunneh. He will see it, and I will give him and his descendants the land on which he has set foot, because he followed the LORD wholeheartedly.”

Joshua9 verses
  1. 14:6

    Then the sons of Judah approached Joshua at Gilgal, and Caleb son of Jephunneh the Kenizzite said to him, “You know what the LORD said to Moses the man of God at Kadesh-barnea about you and me.

  2. 14:13

    Then Joshua blessed Caleb son of Jephunneh and gave him Hebron as his inheritance.

  3. 14:14

    Therefore Hebron belongs to Caleb son of Jephunneh the Kenizzite as an inheritance to this day, because he wholly followed the LORD, the God of Israel.

  4. 15:13

    According to the LORD’s command to him, Joshua gave Caleb son of Jephunneh a portion among the sons of Judah—Kiriath-arba, that is, Hebron. (Arba was the forefather of Anak.)

  5. 15:14

    And Caleb drove out from there the three sons of Anak—the descendants of Sheshai, Ahiman, and Talmai, the children of Anak.

  6. 15:16

    And Caleb said, “To the man who strikes down Kiriath-sepher and captures it, I will give my daughter Acsah in marriage.”

  7. 15:17

    So Othniel son of Caleb’s brother Kenaz captured the city, and Caleb gave his daughter Acsah to him in marriage.

  8. 15:18

    One day Acsah came to Othniel and urged him to ask her father for a field. When she got off her donkey, Caleb asked her, “What do you desire?”

  9. 21:12

    But they had given the fields and villages around the city to Caleb son of Jephunneh as his possession.

Judges6 verses
  1. 1:12

    And Caleb said, “To the man who strikes down Kiriath-sepher and captures it, I will give my daughter Acsah in marriage.”

  2. 1:13

    So Othniel son of Caleb’s younger brother Kenaz captured the city, and Caleb gave his daughter Acsah to him in marriage.

  3. 1:14

    One day Acsah came to Othniel and urged him to ask her father for a field. When she got off her donkey, Caleb asked her, “What do you desire?”

  4. 1:15

    “Give me a blessing,” she answered. “Since you have given me land in the Negev, give me springs of water as well.” So Caleb gave her both the upper and lower springs.

  5. 1:20

    Just as Moses had promised, Judah gave Hebron to Caleb, who drove out the descendants of the three sons of Anak.

  6. 3:9

    But when the Israelites cried out to the LORD, He raised up Othniel son of Caleb’s younger brother Kenaz as a deliverer to save them.

1 Samuel1 verse
  1. 25:3

    His name was Nabal, and his wife’s name was Abigail. She was an intelligent and beautiful woman, but her husband, a Calebite, was harsh and evil in his dealings.

1 Chronicles4 verses
  1. 2:46

    Caleb’s concubine Ephah was the mother of Haran, Moza, and Gazez. Haran was the father of Gazez.

  2. 2:48

    Caleb’s concubine Maacah was the mother of Sheber and Tirhanah.

  3. 4:15

    The sons of Caleb son of Jephunneh: Iru, Elah, and Naam. The son of Elah: Kenaz.

  4. 6:56

    But the fields and villages around the city were given to Caleb son of Jephunneh.

Easton’s Bible Dictionary

The full entry, public domain, as printed in 1897.

The son of Jephunneh (Num. 13:6; 32:12; Josh. 14:6, 14). He was one of those whom Moses sent to search the land in the second year after the Exodus. He was one of the family chiefs of the tribe of Judah. He and Joshua the son of Nun were the only two of the whole number who encouraged the people to go up and possess the land, and they alone were spared when a plague broke out in which the other ten spies perished (Num. 13; 14). All the people that had been numbered, from twenty years old and upward, perished in the wilderness except these two. The last notice we have of Caleb is when (being then eighty-five years of age) he came to Joshua at the camp at Gilgal, after the people had gained possession of the land, and reminded him of the promise Moses had made to him, by virtue of which he claimed a certain portion of the land of Kirjath-arba as his inheritance (Josh. 14:6-15; 15:13-15; 21:10-12; 1 Sam. 25:2, 3; 30:14). He is called a “Kenezite” in Josh. 14:6, 14. This may simply mean “son of Kenez” (Num. 32:12). Some, however, read “Jephunneh, the son of Kenez,” who was a descendant of Hezron, the son of Pharez, a grandson of Judah (1 Chr. 2:5). This Caleb may possibly be identical with (2).