Levi
Related Category: Biblical Proper Names: Biographies
(lē´vī), in the Bible.
1 Son of Jacob and Leah and eponymous ancestor of the Levites. His name appears infrequently—at his birth, when he and Simeon massacred the Shechemites out of revenge, when Jacob migrated to Egypt, and finally when he is named in the prophecy of his father.
2 See
Matthew, Saint.
3, 4 Names in the Gospel genealogy.
