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an'-a-thoth-it (ha-`annethothi): the Revised Version (British and American) form of the King James Version Anethothite, Anetothite, Antothite. An inhabitant of Anathoth, a town of Benjamin assigned to the Levites. The Anathothites are

(1) Abiezer, one of David's thirty heroes (2Sa 23:27; 1Ch 11:28; 27:12), and

(2) Jehu who came to David at Ziklag (1Ch 12:3).