Bible Names A-G

Elimelech in Naves Topical Bible

With Naomi, his wife, and two sons, emigrate to Moab Ru 1:2,3; 2:1,2; 4:3,9...

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Elioenai in Easton's Bible Dictionary

toward Jehovah are my eyes, the name of several men mentioned in the Old Testament (1 Chr. 7:8; 4:36; Ezra 10:22, 27). Among these was the eldest son of Neariah, son of Shemaiah, of the descendants of Zerubbabel. His family are the latest mentioned in the Old Testament (1 Chr. 3:23, 24)....

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Elipheleh in Smiths Bible Dictionary

(whom God makes distinguished), a Merarite Levite, one of the gate-keepers appointed by David to play on the harp "on the Sheminith" on the occasion of bringing up the ark to the city of David. 1Ch 15:18,21...

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Elihu in Fausset's Bible Dictionary

("God is Jehovah".) 1. Son of Barachel ("God blesses"); the names indicating the piety of the family and their separation from idolatry) the Buzite (Buz being a region of Arabia Deserta, Jeremiah 25:23, called from Buz son of Nahor, Abraham's brother), of the kindred of Ram (probably Aram, nephew of Buz): Job 32:2. He is the main human solve...

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Elika in the Bible Encyclopedia - ISBE

e-li'-ka ('eliqa', "God is rejector(?)"): The Harodite (Uradite), one of David's guard, the "thirty" (2 Sam 23:25). Omitted from 1 Ch 11:27....

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Elimelech in Smiths Bible Dictionary

(my God is king), a man of the tribe of Judah and of the family of the Hezronites, who dwelt in Bethlehem-Ephratah in the days of the Judges. (B.C. 1312.) In consequence of a great death in the land he went with his wife, Naomi, and his two sons, Mahlon and Chilion, to dwell in Moab, where he and his sons died without posterity. Ru 1:2,3 etc....

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Elioenai in Fausset's Bible Dictionary

("toward Jehovah my eyes are turned".) 1. 1 Chronicles 7:8. 2. 1 Chronicles 4:36. 3. 1 Chronicles 26:3. 4. In the seventh generation from Zerubbabel, contemporary with Alexander the Great, but the Hebrew (1 Chronicles 3:23-24) is probably an error, and Shemaiah, grandfather of Elioenai and father of Neariah, Elioenai's father, is probab...

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Eliphaz in the Bible Encyclopedia - ISBE

el'-i-faz, e-li'-faz ('eliphaz, "God is fine gold" (?)): (1) Son of Esau by Adah, and father of Teman, Kenaz and Amalek (Gen 36:4,10; 1 Ch 1:35 f). (2) See next article....

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