Caleb] = 'dog.' He seems to have been of Edomite origin (Joshua 14:6). He was by no means a solitary instance of an alien adopted into the tribe of Judah. In the ancestry of David himself we find the Canaanitess Rahab and the Moabitess Ruth. Father of Anak] LXX has 'metropolis of Anak': see on Joshua 14:15.

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