The Nethinims: the children of Ziha, the children of Hasupha, the children of Tabbaoth,
The Nethinims - [Septuagint, Vatican, Nathinim; Alexandrine, Nathinaioi. The same version calls them (1 Chronicles 9:2) hoi dedomenoi, given to God (see the notes at Numbers 3:9; Numbers 8:19; Numbers 31:47; Joshua 9:27)]. They were the descendants of the Gibeonites, to whom, as devoted in a humble sphere to the divine service, the name of Nethinim, originally applied to the Levites, came in process of time to be assigned as their exclusive title. They were divided into several distinctive families (Winer, 'Handworterbuch,' 2:, sec. 175).