Barzillai:
(iron, i.e., strong).
(1.) A wealthy Gileadite who showed hospitality to David when he fled from Absalom (2 Samuel 17:27). (B.C. 1023) He declined the king's offer of ending his days at court (2 Samuel 19:32-39).
(2.) A Meholathite, whose son Adriel married Michal, Saul's daughter (2 Samuel 21:8). (B.C. before 1062)
(3.) Son‐in‐law to Barzillai the Gileadite (Ezra 2:61; Nehemiah 7:63-64). (B.C. before 536)
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