Caleb
historical figure · 2 works · 4 mentions · 4 anchored passages
كالب · Kālib
in the texts
Stromata
Caleb, of the tribe of Judah, named as the elder brother of the judge Gothoniel.
and afterward, having besought God, they receive as leader Gothoniel, the younger brother of Caleb, of the tribe of Judah, who, having killed the king of Mesopotamia, ruled the people for fifty years in succession.
And Joshua saw this sight below, lifted up in spirit, together with Caleb.
Ansāb al-ʻArab al-qudamāʼ
A Hebrew name, meaning dog, adduced by Smith as a Hebrew totem and dismissed here as a personal name rather than a tribal one.
⟩ in an article he published in the English Jewish review two years ago (2), such as Caleb and Jacob and ʻOreb — these are the names of persons, not the names of tribes, and it is not sound to have recourse to them in establishing totemism.
The Jews, in their earliest periods, followed this pattern in naming, and that is why you see among their ancient names many names of animals: