Akkub

One of Elioenai’s seven sons and a distant descendant of David (1 Chronicles 3:24).

An ancestor to a family of Levite gatekeepers who returned to Jerusalem with Zerubbabel after the exile in Babylon (Ezra 2:42; Nehemiah 7:45). This name was shared by two of his descendants (#3 and #6 below).

A head of a family of Levite gatekeepers who were among the first to return to Jerusalem after the exile in Babylon (1 Chronicles 9:17).

An ancestor of a group of temple assistants who returned to Jerusalem with Zerubbabel after the exile in Babylon (Ezra 2:45).

Ezra’s assistant who explained to the people passages from the law read by Ezra (Nehemiah 8:7).

A head of a family of Levite gatekeepers who lived in Jerusalem during the time of Ezra and Nehemiah (Nehemiah 11:19; 12:25–26). He is perhaps the same as #5 above.