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# אֶלְחָנָן

Biblical Hebrew · Strong's H445

**Elkanan** — used 4 times in the Hebrew Bible. Below: its meanings with their sources, MACULA's glosses, and 2 verses word for word and in JPS 1917.

## Meaning

### OpenScriptures lexical index

Elkanan [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1488/445/#m1)

### Brown–Driver–Briggs 1906

אֶלְחָנָן: n.pr.m. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1488/445/#m2)

**The whole BDB entry:** n.pr.m. (God has been gracious, cf. Ph. אלחנן, בעלחנן, in Assyrian Baʾalḫanunu COT Gn 10:18) two of David’s chiefs 2 S 21:19 = 1 Ch 20:5; 2 S 23:24 = 1 Ch 11:26.

Why these entries: BDB: headword, part of speech agrees, 4 of its verses cited, 0 words shared with the glosses, lists its Strong's number (1 candidates); OSHB: headword, part of speech agrees, 0 words shared with the BDB entry, 0 with the glosses (1 candidates)

## Glosses

MACULA's English glosses of the word in the text, with how often each is used: Elhanan (4).

## In the verses

[2 Samuel 23:24](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/2SA.23.24/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/2SA.23.24/#tree)

עֲשָׂה־אֵ֥לעֲשָׂה־אֵ֥ל אֲחִֽי־יוֹאָ֖ב בַּשְּׁלֹשִׁ֑ים אֶלְחָנָ֥ן בֶּן־דֹּד֖וֹ בֵּ֥ית לָֽחֶם בֵּ֥ית לָֽחֶם׃

*Word for word:* Asahel Asahel the.brother of.Joab \[was\].among the thirty Elhanan the.son of.Dodo Bethlehem Bethlehem

*JPS 1917:* Asahel the brother of Joab was one of the thirty; Elhanan the son of Dodo of Beth-lehem;

[1 Chronicles 11:26](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/1CH.11.26/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/1CH.11.26/#tree)

וְגִבּוֹרֵ֖י הַחֲיָלִ֑ים עֲשָׂה־אֵל֙עֲשָׂה־אֵל֙ אֲחִ֣י יוֹאָ֔ב אֶלְחָנָ֥ן בֶּן־דּוֹד֖וֹ מִבֵּ֥ית לָֽחֶם בֵּ֥ית לָֽחֶם׃ס

*Word for word:* and the.mighty.\[men\] of.(the) strength(s) \[were\] Asahel the.brother of.Joab Elhanan the.son of.Dodo from Bethlehem Bethlehem

*JPS 1917:* Also the mighty men of valour: Asahel the brother of Joab, Elhanan the son of Dodo of Beth-lehem;

## On Mova

- [Trees and pragmatics of its meanings](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1488/445/): every English meaning parsed by Mova, with its dependency tree and frames.

Sources. The words, their counts, glosses and the word-for-word renderings: MACULA Hebrew (the Westminster Leningrad Codex; Clear Bible, CC BY 4.0). Meanings: the OpenScriptures lexical index (CC BY 4.0), Brown–Driver–Briggs 1906 and Jastrow 1903 (public domain, via Sefaria); Targum Onkelos from Sefaria (public domain). Translation: JPS 1917 (public domain, from eBible.org).