Nadab
From Academic Kids
This entry incorporates text from Easton's Bible Dictionary, 1897, with some modernisation.
Nadab (meaning liberal, generous) was the name of several individuals in the Old Testament of the Bible:
- The eldest of Aaron's four sons (Exodus 6:23; Numbers 3:2). He with his brothers and their father were consecrated as priests of Jehovah (Ex. 28:1). He afterwards perished with Abihu for the sin of offering strange fire on the altar of burnt-offering (Leviticus 10:1, 2; Num. 3:4; 26:60).
- Nadab of Israel king of the northern Kingdom of Israel, was the son and successor of Jeroboam, the king of Israel (1 Kings 14:20).
- One of the sons of Shammai in the tribe of Judah (1 Chronicles 2:28, 30).de:Nadab
