[1] : Easton's 1897 Bible Dictionary

caleb
   a dog. 1. one of the three sons of hezron of the tribe of
   judah. he is also called chelubai 1 chr. 2:9. his descendants
   are enumerated 18-20, 42-49.
   
     2. a "son of hur, the firstborn of ephratah" 1 chr. 2:50.
   some would read the whole passage thus: "these i.e., the list
   in ver. 42-49 were the sons of caleb. the sons of hur, the
   firstborn of ephratah, were shobal, etc." thus hur would be the
   name of the son and not the father of caleb ver. 19.
   
     3. the son of jephunneh num. 13:6; 32:12; josh. 14:6, 14.
   he was one of those whom moses sent to search the land in the
   second year after the exodus. he was one of the family chiefs of
   the tribe of judah. he and joshua the son of nun were the only
   two of the whole number who encouraged the people to go up and
   possess the land, and they alone were spared when a plague broke
   out in which the other ten spies perished num. 13; 14. all the
   people that had been numbered, from twenty years old and upward,
   perished in the wilderness except these two. the last notice we
   have of caleb is when being then eighty-five years of age he
   came to joshua at the camp at gilgal, after the people had
   gained possession of the land, and reminded him of the promise
   moses had made to him, by virtue of which he claimed a certain
   portion of the land of kirjath-arba as his inheritance josh.
   14:6-15; 15:13-15; 21:10-12; 1 sam. 25:2,3; 30:14. he is called
   a "kenezite" in josh. 14:6,14. this may simply mean "son of
   kenez" num. 32:12. some, however, read "jephunneh, the son of
   kenez," who was a descendant of hezron, the son of pharez, a
   grandson of judah 1 chr. 2:5. this caleb may possibly be
   identical with 2.
   
     4. caleb gave his name apparently to a part of the south
   country 1 sam. 30:14 of judah, the district between hebron and
   carmel, which had been assigned to him. when he gave up the city
   of hebron to the priests as a city of refuge, he retained
   possession of the surrounding country josh. 21:11,12; comp. 1
   sam. 25:3.
   

[2] : Hitchcock's Bible Names Dictionary (late 1800's)

caleb, a dog; a crow; a basket

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