HELEK

(Heʹlek) [portion], Helekites (Helʹek·ites)

The second-listed son of Gilead, and great-grandson of Manasseh. He founded the family of the Helekites that was numbered in the census at the end of the Israelites’ wilderness trek and that received an inheritance in Manasseh’s territory.—Num. 26:3, 4, 29, 30; Josh. 17:2.