Akkub עַקּוּב

Returned from exile. Akkub was a Levite who served as a gatekeeper in the Temple during the post-exilic period.

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Where Akkub appears

Nehemiah (3), 1 Chronicles (1), Ezra (1)

Key verses

• 1 Chronicles 9:17 first mention — And the porters were, Shallum, and Akkub, and Talmon, and Ahiman, and their brethren: Shallum was the chief;
• Ezra 2:42 — The children of the porters: the children of Shallum, the children of Ater, the children of Talmon, the children of Akkub, the children of Hatita, the children of Shobai, in all an hundred thirty and nine.
• Nehemiah 7:45 — The porters: the children of Shallum, the children of Ater, the children of Talmon, the children of Akkub, the children of Hatita, the children of Shobai, an hundred thirty and eight.
• Nehemiah 11:19 — Moreover the porters, Akkub, Talmon, and their brethren that kept the gates, were an hundred seventy and two.
• Nehemiah 12:25 — Mattaniah, and Bakbukiah, Obadiah, Meshullam, Talmon, Akkub, were porters keeping the ward at the thresholds of the gates.

Person data: STEPBible.org TIPNR, Tyndale House Cambridge (CC BY 4.0), adapted. Verse text: King James Version.