Descendants of Aaron the high priest, so called 1 Chronicles 12:27; 27:17. Thirteen cities were assigned to them, in Judah and Benjamin, Joshua 21:13-19; 1 Chronicles 6:57-60.

The descendants of Aaron, and therefore priests. Jehoiada, the father of Benaiah, led 3,700 Aaronites as "fighting men" to the support of David at Hebron (1 Chronicles 12:27). Eleazar (Numbers 3:32), and at a later period Zadok (1 Chronicles 27:17), was their chief.

(1 Chronicles 12:27) priests of the family of Aaron.