Bible Characters & Character Studies
Nahshon
First appears at Numbers 1:7
First named in Scripture at Numbers 1:7 — read the chapter.
From Easton’s Bible Dictionary (1897)
sorcerer, the son of Aminadab, and prince of the children of Judah at the time of the first numbering of the tribes in the wilderness (Exodus 6:23). His sister Elisheba was the wife of Aaron. He died in the wilderness (Numbers 26:64, 65). His name occurs in the Greek form Naasson in the genealogy of Christ (Matt, 1:4; Luke 3:32).