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# אֱלִיעָם

Biblical Hebrew · Strong's H463

**Eliam** — used 2 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

Eliam [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1488/463/#m1)

### Brown–Driver–Briggs 1906

אֱלִיעָם: n.pr.m. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1488/463/#m2)

**The whole BDB entry:** n.pr.m. (God is kinsman; Ph. אלעם) father of Bathsheba 2 S 11:3; cf. עַמִּיאֵל 1 Ch 3:5. one of David’s heroes 2 S 23:34 (according to some = a). Etl is kinsman (v. GrayEncy. Bib. Ammi, Names with Nöib. Names, § 46).

Why these entries: BDB: headword, part of speech agrees, 2 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: Eliam (1); of Eliam (1).

## In the verses

[2 Samuel 23:34](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/2SA.23.34/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/2SA.23.34/#tree)

אֱלִיפֶ֥לֶט בֶּן־אֲחַסְבַּ֖י בֶּן־הַמַּֽעֲכָתִ֑יס אֱלִיעָ֥ם בֶּן־אֲחִיתֹ֖פֶל הַגִּלֹנִֽי׃ס

*Word for word:* Eliphelet the.son of.Ahasbai the.son of the.Maacathite Eliam the.son of.Ahithophel the Gilonite

*JPS 1917:* Eliphelet the son of Ahasbai, the son of the Maacathite, Eliam the son of Ahithophel the Gilonite;

[2 Samuel 11:3](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/2SA.11.3/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/2SA.11.3/#tree)

וַיִּשְׁלַ֣ח דָּוִ֔ד וַיִּדְרֹ֖שׁ לָֽאִשָּׁ֑ה וַיֹּ֗אמֶר הֲלוֹא־זֹאת֙ בַּת־שֶׁ֣בַעבַּת־שֶׁ֣בַע בַּת־אֱלִיעָ֔ם אֵ֖שֶׁת אוּרִיָּ֥ה הַחִתִּֽי׃

*Word for word:* and he.sent David and he.enquired of the woman and he.said ? not \[is\].this Bathsheba Bathsheba the.daughter of.Eliam the.wife of.Uriah the Hittite

*JPS 1917:* And David sent and inquired after the woman. And one said: 'Is not this Bath-sheba, the daughter of Eliam, the wife of Uriah the Hittite?'

## On Mova

- [Trees and pragmatics of its meanings](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1488/463/): 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).