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# אֱלִיעֶזֶר

Biblical Hebrew · Strong's H461

**Eliezer** — used 14 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

Eliezer [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1488/461/#m1)

### Brown–Driver–Briggs 1906

אֱלִיעֶ֫זֶר: n.pr.m. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1488/461/#m2)

**The whole BDB entry:** (־עֶ֑זרֶ Gn 15:2 +) n.pr.m. (God is help, cf. Ex 18:4; v. also אֶלְעָזָר infr., עֲזַרְאֵל, Ph. אשמנעזר, בעלעזר, עזרבעל) Abraham’s steward (אֱלִיעֶ֑זֶר), a Damascene Gn 15:2. a son of Moses Ex 18:4 1 Ch 23:15, 17(×2). Benjamite 1 Ch 7:8. several priests 1 Ch 15:24 1 Ch 26:25 Ezr 10:18. Reubenite 1 Ch 27:16. prophet in time of Jehoshaphat 2 Ch 20:37. Levite chief Ezr 8:16; 10:23. son of Harim Ezr. 10:31.

Why these entries: BDB: headword, part of speech agrees, 13 of its verses cited, 0 words shared with the glosses, lists its Strong's number (2 candidates); OSHB: headword, part of speech agrees, 0 words shared with the BDB entry, 1 with the glosses (2 candidates)

## Glosses

MACULA's English glosses of the word in the text, with how often each is used: Eliezer (12); \[was\] Eliezer (1); of Eliezer (1).

## In the verses

[1 Chronicles 23:15](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/1CH.23.15/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/1CH.23.15/#tree)

בְּנֵ֣י מֹשֶׁ֔ה גֵּרְשֹׁ֖ם וֶאֱלִיעֶֽזֶר׃

*Word for word:* the.sons of.Moses \[were\].Gershom and Eliezer

*JPS 1917:* The sons of Moses: Gershom, and Eliezer.

[Ezra 10:31](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/EZR.10.31/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/EZR.10.31/#tree)

וּבְנֵ֖י חָרִ֑ם אֱלִיעֶ֧זֶר יִשִּׁיָּ֛ה מַלְכִּיָּ֖ה שְׁמַֽעְיָ֥ה שִׁמְעֽוֹן׃

*Word for word:* and the.sons of.Harim Eliezer Isshiah Malkijah Shemaiah Simeon

*JPS 1917:* And of the sons of Harim: Eliezer, Isshijah, Malchijah, Shemaiah, Shimeon;

## On Mova

- [Trees and pragmatics of its meanings](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1488/461/): 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).