Son of Abiel, father of Abner, and Saul’s uncle (1 Sam. 14:50-51). The genealogy here falls thus:
This differs from the Chronicles, where Ner is the son of Jehiel of Gibeon, and the father of Kish, the father of Saul (1 Chron. 8:33; 1 Chron. 9:36,39). The rabbis say that this Ner is the same person as Abiel; but others suppose him to be some earlier ancestor not elsewhere mentioned.