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# אֱלִיהוּא

Biblical Hebrew · Strong's H453

**Elihu** — used 11 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

Elihu [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1488/453/#m1)

### Brown–Driver–Briggs 1906

אֱלִיהוּ: n.pr.m. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1488/453/#m2)

**The whole BDB entry:** Jb 32:4 + 3 times; אֱלִיהוּא Jb 32:2 + 6 times; n.pr.m. (He is (my) God) the young friend of Job Jb 32:2, 4, 5, 6; 34:1; 35:1; 36:1. an Ephraimite, Samuel’s great-grandfather 1 S 1:1 cf. אֱלִיאָב 1 Ch 6:12, אֱלִיאֵל v 19. chief of Manasseh 1 Ch 12:20. a Korahite 1 Ch 26:7. one of the brethren of David 1 Ch 27:18 (cf. אֱלִיאָב 1 S 16:6).

Why these entries: BDB: another headword, part of speech agrees, 10 of its verses cited, 0 words shared with the glosses, lists its Strong's number (1 candidates); OSHB: another 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: Elihu (9); of Elihu (2).

## In the verses

[Job 34:1](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/JOB.34.1/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/JOB.34.1/#tree)

וַיַּ֥עַן אֱלִיה֗וּא וַיֹּאמַֽר׃

*Word for word:* and he.answered Elihu and he.said

*JPS 1917:* Moreover Elihu answered and said:

[Job 35:1](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/JOB.35.1/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/JOB.35.1/#tree)

וַיַּ֥עַן אֱלִיה֗וּ וַיֹּאמַֽר׃

*Word for word:* and he.answered Elihu and he.said

*JPS 1917:* Moreover Elihu answered and said:

## On Mova

- [This word in the Tanakh dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/tanakh/w/453.html) on Mova free.
- [Trees and pragmatics of its meanings](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1488/453/): 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).