MOHOLI. — 1. Merari (v.) and grandson of Levi (Ex. 6:19; Num. 3:20; I Chron. 6:4, 14 [Vulg. 19, 29]; 23:21; 24:26, 28); he was the ancestor of the great Levitical family of the Moholites (Num. 3:33 ff.; 26:58; I Chron. 24:26, 28, 31; Ezra 8:18). The name is often used as a patronymic (Hebr. Mahl, ham-Mahl; Septuagint: Μολί, δῆμος ὁ Μολί; Vulgate: M., familia M. and Num. 3:33 Moholitae).
2. Son of Musi and grandson of the preceding (I Chron. 6:31 f. [Vulg. 46 f.]; 23:23; 24:30).
BIBL.: F. Zorell, Lexicon hebraicum, p. 426; L. Marchal, Les Paralipomènes (La Ste Bible, ed. L. Pirot. 4), Paris 1949, pp. 105, 108 f.