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Elkanah in Fausset's Bible Dictionary

1. Son of Korah, son of Izhar, son of Kohath, son of Levi (Exodus 6:24); compare 1 Chronicles 6:22-23, where an Elkanah is mentioned, grandson of Korah. "The children of Korah died not" when he was consumed (Numbers 26:11). 2. A descendant of the previous Elkanah, in the line of Ahimoth or Mahath (1 Chronicles 6:26; 1 Chronicles 6:35). 3. A...

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Elipheleh in Fausset's Bible Dictionary

Porter, rather gatekeeper (1 Chronicles 15:18; 1 Chronicles 15:21)....

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Elisha in Smiths Bible Dictionary

(God his salvation), son of Shaphat of Abel-meholah; the attendant and disciple of Elijan, and subsequently his successor as prophet of the kingdom of Israel. The earliest mention of his name is in the command to Elijah in the cave at Horeb. 1Ki 19:16,17 (B.C. about 900.) Elijah sets forth to obey the command, and comes upon his successor enga...

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Elishah in Fausset's Bible Dictionary

Javan's oldest son (Genesis 10:4). Ezekiel 27:7; "purple from the isles of Elishah." As Javan represents the Ionian Greeks; so Elishah the Aeolians, whose favorite resort was to maritime situations, in Greece, Thessaly, and Asia Minor, and Lesbos and Tenedos. Hellas (Greece) and Elis in the Peloponnese are kindred Bathes....

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Elishaphat in the Bible Encyclopedia - ISBE

e-lish'-a-fat ('elishaphat, "God is judge"): This man figures in the Levitical conspiracy against Athaliah, to make Joash king. He was one of the "captains of hundreds" employed in the enterprise by Jehoiada the priest (2 Ch 23:1)....

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Elishua in Smiths Bible Dictionary

(God is my salvation), one of David's sons, born after his settlement in Jerusalem. 2Sa 5:15; 1Ch 14:5 (B.C. 1044.)...

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Elkanah in Hitchcock's Bible Names

God the zealous; the zeal of God...

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Elisha in Easton's Bible Dictionary

God his salvation, the son of Shaphat of Abel-meholah, who became the attendant and disciple of Elijah (1 Kings 19:16-19). His name first occurs in the command given to Elijah to anoint him as his successor (1 Kings 19:16). This was the only one of the three commands then given to Elijah which he accomplished. On his way from Sinai to Dama...

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Elishah in Hitchcock's Bible Names

it is God; the lamb of God: God that gives help...

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