• Xote on the gmuinenesi of the name. — The name occure but twice in MT ; in one case (2 S IP) all VSS except the Vulg., and In the other the LXX. show a different name. In spite of this a close comparison of the VSS conflrms the correctness of the Maaaoretic tradition of the rare name Eliam, which certainly ocoun in Phcon. (CIS 147, DySx, on a Sardinian inscription) as ag&lnst the commoner names which appear in the VSS. Ammiel (1 Ch 35) may be an actual alternative name of the same man (cf. Jehoiachin and Coniah), or may be the alteration of an offensive, because misunderstood, name (Eliam being regarded as—' God of the peof le ') into a less exceptional form (Ammiel regarded ««=' People Df God ') ; see further, Gray, Stxid. in Beb. Proper Same; p. ib
9^ Eliasimus) ; and 4. another of the family <A Bani (Ezr HI-"), who had married foreign wives.
5. A son of Elioenai and descendant of David. From the position of the name in the genealogy this E. must have lived after the Exile, and possiUy as late as the middle of the 4th cent. (1 Ch S").
6. According to the Chronicler (1 Ch 24'^), E. was the name of a priestly house in the time of David. But see the references and the literature cited in Ammiel 3. 7. Father of Jehohanan, to whose chamber in the temple Ezra resorted (Ezr 10*). But the suggestion (see, e.rj., Ry\e on Ezr 10") that this E. is identical with No. 1 is not improbable. See art. JoiiANAN. G. B. GRAY.
ELIASIB (A 'EXit£o-ij3o!, B NafffijSos), 1 Es 9'.— A high priest in the time of Neh. Ezr 10", Eliasuib.
ELIASIBUS (A 'EXiaVijSos, B -(Tf/3os, AV Eleazurus, perhaps from the Aldine 'E\ias"'oii0o5, p being read for 0), 1 Es 9^. — One of the 'holy singers,' who put away his strange wife. In Ezr 10-* Eliashib.
ELIASIMUS (A'EXirfffi/tos, B -«-ei-, AVElisimus), 1 Es 9-».— In Ezr 10" Eliashib.
ELIASIS ('EXioffris), 1 Es 9".— This name and
Enasibus may be duplicate forms answering to Eliashib in Ezr 10^ (Speaker's Comm.).
ELIATHAH (nox'^tt or nn'^x 'God hath come').— A Hemanite, whose family formed the twentieth division of the temple service (1 Ch 25*- ").
ELIDAD (Ti'Vs 'God has loved,' 'EXSdJ).— Son of Cliislon, and Benjamin's representative for dividing the land, Nu 34^ P (perh. = Eldad, one of the elders, Nu 11»'- E).
ELIEHOENAI ('n'^T'-x ' to 3" are mine eyes •).—!. A Korahite (1 Ch 26', AV Elioenai). 2. The head of a family of exiles that returned (Ezr 8*, AV Elihoenai), called in 1 Es 8" Eliaonias.
ELIEL (Sx-'jx, prob. ' El is God ').—!. A Korahite (1 Ch 6^*), prob. = Eliab of v." and Elihu of 1 S 1'. 2. 3. 4. Mighty men in the service of David (1 Ch 1146.47 i2u_ 5, A chief of eastern Manasseh (1 Ch 5"). 6. 7. Two Benjamite chiefs ( 1 Ch 8-»- ^). 8. A Legate mentioned in connexion with the removal of the ark from the house of Ohed-edom (1 Ch IS'- ")• »• A Levite in time of Hezekiah (2 Ch 31i»).
ELIENAI ("J'S'^N, textual error for 'i)iy)t; Elioenai).— A Benjamite (1 Ch 8*). See Genk.
ALOGY.
ELIEZER ("i,n;''r?< 'God is help"). —See Eleazar. 1. Abraham's chief servant, a Damascene (Gn 15^ AV, RVm). (The construction here is diiiioult, but the words can hardly be rendered as a double proper name as RV, ' Damniesek Eliezer.' What- ever the exact construction, the words, unless there is a corruption in the text, must be intended to suggest that E. was in some way connected with Damascus. See Delitzsch, New Com. on Gen. ii. 4). This same E. is prob. the servant referred to in Gn 24. 2. A son of Moses by Zipporah ; so named to commemorate the deliverance of Moses from Pharaoh (Ex 18*, 1 Ch 23"- "). 3. The son of Becher a Benjamite (1 Ch 7'). 4. The son of Zichri, captain of the tribe of Reuben in David's reign (1 Ch 27"). 5. The son of Dodavahu of Mareshah, who prophesied the destruction of the fleet of sliii)s which Jehoshaphat built in co- operation with Ahaziah (2 Ch 20"). 6. An E. ia
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mentioned among the 'chief men' whom Ezra sent from Almva to Casiphia to find Lerites and Nethiniiii willing to join the expedition to Jeru- salem (Ezr 8""-). 7. 8. 9. A priest, a Levite, and a son of Harim, who ha<l married 'stranjie women,' i.e. wives of non-Israclitish descent, in the time of Ezra (Ezr 10'»- ^- "). 10. One of the priests appointed to blow with the tnimpets before the arfc of God when David brought it from the house of Obed-edom to Jerus. (1 Ch 15"). 11. A Levite mentioned in 1 Ch 26^. 12. An E. is mentioned in the genealogy of our Lord given by St. Luke {S'^).
W. C. Allen. ELIHOREPH (Tin'^K, possibly ' God of autumn,' or •of ripe age' ; cf. Job 29* RV. 'EXid0 B, 'Ei'apf<^ A, 'EXidp Luc). — One of Solomon's scribes (1 K 4').
ELIHU ("•'■K).— 1. An ancestor of Samuel, 1 S 1', called in 1 Ch G" Eliel and in 1 Ch O" Fliab (wli. see). 2. A variation in 1 Cli 27'" for Eliab, David's eldest son, 1 S W. Kittel (in Haupt's CD emends the text of Ch to DN-'yx. 3. A Manassite who joined David at Zilclag, 1 Ch 12". i. A Korahite porter, 1 Ch 20'. 5. See next article. & (HXetou) an ancestor of Judith, Jth 8'.