Jehoiarib

Jehoiarib is presented in biblical genealogical tradition as the named head of a family of Aaronian priests made first among the twenty-four priestly divisions organized by King David (1 Chronicles 24:7). The name functions thereafter as the designation of that priestly course; later chronographic works and inscriptions preserve associations of the lineage, including traditions linking surviving members to settlements such as Meron in late antiquity.

The sources are genealogical and institutional and provide no physical description of Jehoiarib as a person; he appears only as a named ancestral figure and label for a priestly course.

No supernatural powers are ascribed. The attributed functions are institutional and hereditary: eponymous head of a family of Aaronian priests whose descendants formed the first of the twenty-four priestly divisions serving in the Temple. Later traditions record activities and reputational associations of the priestly course (for example, being on duty at the Second Temple's destruction), but no individual supernatural behaviors are recorded for the ancestor.