The Bible claims that the Gershonites were all descended from the eponymous Gershon, a son of Levi, although biblical scholars regard this as a postdictional metaphor providing an aetiology of the connectedness of the clan to others in the Israelite confederation ; according to biblical scholars, Levite was originally just a job title, deriving from the Minaean word lawi ' u meaning priest, rather than having been the name of a tribe

* The third was the father of Hashbiah, ruler of the tribe of Levi or Levite, in the Book of Chronicles 27: 17.

* the son of Shemaiah, a descendant of the Hebrew patriarch Levi ()

The word Jew is a derivative of the word Judah, referring to a descendant of the Kingdom of Judah, though a Jew could also be a descendant of Benjamin or Levi.

* A descendant of Levi, and one of the line of the high priests ( 1.

In a broader sense, since Aaron was a descendant of the Tribe of Levi, priests are sometimes included in the term Levites, by direct patrilineal descent.

The elder Zerachiah was a son of Shem Tov Ha-Levi, one of the greatest Talmudic scholars in Provence, who claimed direct descent of the prophet Samuel, who according to Jewish tradition was a direct descendant of Yitzhar ( hence the family name " Ha-Yitzhari "), son of Kehath, son of Levi, son of Jacob.

In the superscription of the Old Greek version, Habakkuk is called the son of Joshua of the tribe of Levi.

# The Old Testament, in which a line of kings was created by God through the prophecy of Jacob / Israel, who created his son Judah to be king and retain the sceptre until the coming of the Messiah, alongside the line of priests created in his other son, Levi.

Sheen became a grandfather at age 43 when his son, Emilio, had a son named Taylor Levi with his girlfriend, Carey Salley.

Non-priest Levites ( i. e. all those who descended from Levi, the son of Jacob, but not from Aaron ) performed a variety of other Temple roles, including ritual slaughter of animals, song service by use of voice and musical instruments, and various tasks in assisting the priests in performing their service.

For example, the first-born son of a Bat-Kohen or the first-born son of a Bat-Levi, the daughter of any Levi did not require the ritual of Pidyon HaBen.

Rockwell settled at or near Richfield Springs in 1789 ; Obadiah Beardsley and his son Obadiah, jr., the father and grandfather of the late Levi Beardsley, and Hon.

Ives was born in 1909 near Hunt City, an unincorporated town in Jasper County, Illinois near Newton, Illinois ; the son of Levi " Frank " Ives ( 1880 – 1947 ) and Cordelia " Dellie " White ( 1882 – 1954 ).

He was succeeded by his son, Rabbi Yitzchak Dovber ( 1835 – 1910 ) of Liadi, author of Siddur Maharid, and his son-in-law, Rabbi Levi Yitzchak (– 1905 ) of Siratin, a scion of the Rebbe of Radzimin.

His inner circle of disciples, known as the Chevraia Kadisha (" Holy Brotherhood "), included his son Rabbi Avraham HaMalach ( The Angel ), Rabbi Nachum of Czernobyl, Rabbi Elimelech of Lizhensk, Rabbi Zusha of Hanipol, Rabbi Levi Yitzchok of Berditchev, Rabbi Boruch of Medzhybizh, Rabbi Aharon ( HaGadol ) of Karlin, Rabbi Menachem Mendel of Vitebsk, Rabbi Shmuel Shmelke of Nikolsburg and Rabbi Shneur Zalman of Liadi.

Levi was the son of a shoemaker in Paris ; he attended the seminary of Saint Sulpice and began to study to enter the Roman Catholic priesthood.

Judah is the fourth son of the patriarch Jacob and his first wife, Leah: his full brothers are Reuben, Simeon and Levi ( all older ), and Issachar and Zebulun ( younger ), and he has six half brothers.

** Levi: Third son of Jacob, by Leah ; he went down with Jacob into Egypt.

Levi / Levy (, ; Levy ; " joining ") was, according to the Book of Genesis, the third son of Jacob and Leah, and the founder of the Israelite Tribe of Levi ( the levites ).

Levi, the son of a Jewish rabbi, remained the festival's principal conductor for the next two decades.

For the son of Levi, see Gershon.

Amram was the son of Kohath, who was a son of Levi.

On 22 October 1806 in London he married Hannah Barent-Cohen ( 1783 – 1850 ), daughter of Levi Barent-Cohen ( 1747 – 1808 ) and wife Lydia Diamantschleifer and paternal granddaughter of Barent Cohen and wife, whose other son Salomon David Barent-Cohen ( d. 1807 ) married Sara Brandes, great-grandparents of Karl Marx.

The rationalistic method pursued by the new school of Maimonists ( including Levi ben Abraham ben Chayyim of Villefranche, near the town of Perpignan, and Jacob Anatolio ) especially provoked his indignation ; for the sermons preached and the works published by them seemed to resolve the entire Scriptures into allegory and threatened to undermine the Jewish faith and the observance of the Law and tradition.

Dinah's brothers, Simeon and Levi, agreed in Jacob's name to permit the marriage as long as all the men of Shechem first circumcised themselves, ostensibly to unite the children of Jacob in Abraham's covenant of familial harmony.

* 1873 – Levi Strauss and Jacob Davis receive a U. S. patent for blue jeans with copper rivets.

There was also on the top of the throne a golden candelabrum, on the seven branches of the one side of which were engraved the names of the seven patriarchs Adam, Noah, Shem, Abraham, Isaac, Jacob, and Job, and on the seven of the other the names of Levi, Kohath, Amram, Moses, Aaron, Eldad, Medad, and, in addition, Hur ( another version has Haggai ).

Guenon points out that Blavatsky spent a long time visiting a library at New York where she had easy access to the works of Jacob Boehme, Eliphas Levi, the Kabbala and other Hermetic treatises.

** Levi Strauss and Jacob Davis received United States patent # 139121 for using copper rivets to strengthen the pockets of denim work pants.

* May 20 – Levi Strauss and Jacob Davis receive a U. S. patent for blue jeans with copper rivets.

Often the term " jeans " refers to a particular style of pants called " blue jeans " and invented by Jacob Davis and Levi Strauss in 1873.

In 1872, Jacob Davis, a tailor who frequently purchased bolts of cloth from the Levi Strauss & Co. wholesale house, wrote to Strauss asking to partner with him to patent and sell clothing reinforced with rivets.

In the Book of Genesis, Jacob condemned the anger that had arisen in his sons Simon and Levi: " Cursed be their anger, for it was fierce ; and their wrath, for it was cruel.

Jacob Dunn and Levi Clawson, both from Newton, New Jersey, were the first to purchase land here in 1835 and to then settle.

He was a student of Levi Ibn Habib, who was in turn a student of Jacob ibn Habib, who was, in turn, a student of Nissim ben Reuben.

The Torah suggests that the name of Levi refers to Leah's hope for Jacob to join with her, implying a derivation from yillaweh, meaning he will join, but Biblical scholars have proposed quite different origins of the name.

The Book of Jubilees similarly has Isaac telling Levi of the future of his descendants, again predicting priesthood, prophets, and political power, and additionally describes Jacob as entrusting Levi with the secrets of the ancients, so that they would be known only to the Levites ; however, like the Testament of Levi, the Book of Jubilees is regarded as a Maccabean document by scholars.

* 1910 – Levi Celerio, Filipino composer and lyricist ( d. 2002 )

In the Apocryphal Testament of Levi, it is stated that Amram was born, as a grandson of Levi, when Levi was 64 years old.

Among the more renowned of such works are the writings of Primo Levi, one of many personal accounts of the Shoah.

In Jerusalem, he gives evening seminars, which according to Newsweek usually last till 2 in the morning, and have attracted prominent politicians as the former Prime Minister Levi Eshkol and former Finance Minister Pinhas Sapir.

The tribe of Levi is exempted from military service and therefore not included in the census totals.

The philosopher and astronomer Rabbi Abraham ibn Ezra ( c. 1140 ) established the symmetry of binomial coefficients, while a closed formula was obtained later by the talmudist and mathematician Levi ben Gerson ( better known as Gersonides ), in 1321.

Two Dartmouth alumni have served as justices on the Supreme Court of the United States: Salmon P. Chase and Levi Woodbury.

The man supplements his income working on paid commercials for companies like Levi, Miller Beer, and Honda.

He was so zealous in these efforts that they also included naming his own brother Levi, who was apparently trying to swindle Ethan and Ira out of land at the time.

This action was somewhat surprising, as Levi had not only attempted to purchase Ethan's release while he was in Halifax, but he had also traveled to New York while Ethan was on parole there, and furnished him with goods and money.

Ethan and Levi engaged in a war of words, many of which were printed in the Connecticut Courant, even after Levi crossed British lines.

The corresponding noun " esotericism " was coined in French by Jacques Matter in 1828 and popularized by Eliphas Levi in the 1850s.

Each of FAO ’ s Goodwill Ambassadors – celebrities from the arts, entertainment, sport and academia such as Nobel Prize winner Rita Levi Montalcini, actress Gong Li, the late singer Miriam Makeba, and soccer players Roberto Baggio and Raúl, to name a few – has made a personal and professional commitment to FAO ’ s vision: a food-secure world for present and future generations.

* 1829 – Levi Strauss, German-born clothing designer ( d. 1902 )

* Levi Strauss & Co.

The authors include S. T. Joshi, Kenneth W. Faig, Jr, Jason C. Eckhardt, Will Murray, Donald R. Burleson, Peter Cannon, Stefan Dziemianowicz, Steven J. Mariconda, David E. Schultz, Robert H. Waugh, Robert M. Price, R. Boerem, Norman R. Gatford and Barton Levi St. Armand.