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Bukki (Hebrew: בֻּקִּי Buqqī, "proved") may have been an early High Priest of Israel. Another Bukki is mentioned in Numbers as a leader in the Tribe of Dan.

Bukki is mentioned in the books 1 Chronicles (6:4) and Ezra (7:4) as the son of the High Priest Abishua, a priest fifth in descent in the line of Eleazar. In the Apocrypha (2 Esdras 1:2), his name is listed as Borith and in 1 Esdras 8:2, he is called Boccas. According to Josephus (Antiquities of the Jews 5.10.5; 8.1.3) and other extrabiblical sources[citation needed], he succeeded his father as High Priest.

He is contemporarily identified with the Samaritan High Priest Bakhi.[1] 2nd Samaritan High Priest[2] and Sashai the 1st Samaritan High Priest was possibly his brother

Etymology

Personal name shortened from Bukkiah, meaning, “Yahweh proved”[3]

Numbers 34:22

". . . and the prince of the tribe of the children of Dan, Bukki the son of Jogli . . ."[4]

Patrilineal Ancestry

Patrilineal descent
  1. Abraham
  2. Isaac
  3. Jacob
  4. Levi
  5. Kehath
  6. Amram
  7. Aaron
  8. Eleazar
  9. Phinehas
  10. Abishua

References

  1. ^ Smith, John (2017-09-21). "On the Y-DNA of the Lost Tribes of Israel". doi:10.6084/m9.figshare.5422696.v7. {{cite journal}}: Cite journal requires |journal= (help)
  2. ^ Gaster, M. “The Chain of Samaritan High Priests: A Synchronistic Synopsis: Published for the First Time.” Journal of the Royal Asiatic Society of Great Britain and Ireland, 1909, pp. 393–420. JSTOR, www.jstor.org/stable/25210743. Accessed 21 Sept. 2020.
  3. ^ "Bukki - Holman Bible Dictionary". StudyLight.org. Retrieved 2015-06-18.
  4. ^ "Numbers 34:22 - TMB". Biblestudytools.com. Retrieved 2015-06-18.
Israelite religious titles
Preceded by High Priest of Israel Succeeded by
Preceded by Samaritan High Priest Succeeded by