1. Strictly, and then he is the same who elsewhere is called Jethro, Exo_3:1 Exo 18$ oft times; and, as some think, Hobab, Jud_4:11. Or,
2. Largely, i.e. their grandfather, for such are oft called fathers, as Gen_31:432Ki_14:3 16:2 18:3; so he was the father of Jethro, or Hobab, Num_10:29.