HEBER

(Heʹber) [Partner].

1. Son of Beriah and grandson of Asher; ancestral head of the Heberites.​—Ge 46:17; Nu 26:45; 1Ch 7:30-32.

2. The Kenite husband of Jael (the woman who put Jabin’s army chief Sisera to death) and a descendant of Hobab, “whose son-in-law Moses was.” Heber had evidently separated himself from the rest of the Kenites and was at peace with Jabin the king of Hazor.​—Jg 4:11, 17, 21; 5:24.

3. A man of the tribe of Judah and “the father of Soco.”​—1Ch 4:1, 18.

4. Descendant of Elpaal; head of a paternal house of the tribe of Benjamin.​—1Ch 8:1, 17, 18, 28.