Kalev
Caleb
b. 1484 BC
The son of Jephunneh, of the tribe of Judah, one of the twelve sent to spy out the land (Numbers 13:6). With Joshua he urged Israel to go up, trusting the LORD (Numbers 13:30; 14:6-9), and the LORD said he had a different spirit and would enter the land (Numbers 14:24). He states that he was forty years old when Moses sent him and eighty-five when he received Hebron as his inheritance (Joshua 14:6-14). His age of forty at the spying fixes the estimated birth year; his death is not recorded.
Traditional biblical chronology (Masoretic text) — estimated
Scripture
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