0 Was Samuel a Levite or an Ephraimite?

Was Samuel a Levite or an Ephraimite?

He was a Levite

The sons of Levi; Gershon, Kohath, and Merari. 1 Chronicles 6:16

The sons of Kohath; Amminadab his son, Korah his son, Assir his son, 1 Chronicles 6:22

Elkanah his son, and Ebiasaph his son, and Assir his son, 1 Chronicles 6:23

Elkanah knew Hannah his wife; and the LORD remembered her. 1 Samuel 1:19

Hannah had conceived, that she bare a son, and called his name Samuel. 1 Samuel 1:21

He was an Ephraimite

(Since his father Elkanah was an Ephraimite.)

Now there was a certain man of Ramathaimzophim, of mount Ephraim, and his name was Elkanah, the son of Jeroham, the son of Elihu, the son of Tohu, the son of Zuph, an Ephrathite. 1 Samuel 1:1

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