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# אֱלִיאָב

Biblical Hebrew · Strong's H446

**Eliab** — used 21 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

Eliab [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1488/446/#m1)

### Brown–Driver–Briggs 1906

אֱלִיאָב: n.pr.m. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1488/446/#m2)

**The whole BDB entry:** n.pr.m. (God is father, cf. אֲבִיאֵל) prince of Zebulon Nu 1:9; 2:7; 7:24, 29; 10:16. prince of Reuben Nu 16:1, 12; 26:8, 9 Dt 11:6. brother of David 1 S 16:6; 17:13, 28(×2) 1 Ch 2:13 2 Ch 11:18 (cf. אֱלִיהוּ 1 Ch 27:18). a Kohathite 1 Ch 6:12 = אֱלִיאֵל v 19 cf. אֱלִיהוּ 1 S 1:1. a Gadite 1 Ch 12:9. Levite singer 1 Ch 15:18, 20; 16:5.

Why these entries: BDB: headword, part of speech agrees, 19 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, 1 with the glosses (1 candidates)

## Glosses

MACULA's English glosses of the word in the text, with how often each is used: Eliab (11); of Eliab (7); \[was\] Eliab (2).

## In the verses

[Numbers 26:8](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/NUM.26.8/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/NUM.26.8/#tree)

וּבְנֵ֥י פַלּ֖וּא אֱלִיאָֽב׃

*Word for word:* and the.sons of.Pallu \[were\].Eliab

*JPS 1917:* And the sons of Pallu: Eliab.

[Numbers 1:9](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/NUM.1.9/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/NUM.1.9/#tree)

לִזְבוּלֻ֕ן אֱלִיאָ֖ב בֶּן־חֵלֹֽן׃

*Word for word:* for Zebulun Eliab the.son of.Helon

*JPS 1917:* Of Zebulun, Eliab the son of Helon.

## On Mova

- [Trees and pragmatics of its meanings](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1488/446/): 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).