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# אֱלִישׁוּעַ

Biblical Hebrew · Strong's H474

**Elishua** — 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

Elishua [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1488/474/#m1)

### Brown–Driver–Briggs 1906

אֱלִישׁוּעַ: n.pr.m. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1488/474/#m2)

**The whole BDB entry:** n.pr.m. (God is salvation, cf. אֱלִישָׁע infr.; or is opulence, cf. אֲבִישׁוּעַ) son of David 2 S 5:15; 1 Ch 14:5.

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 (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: Elishua (2).

## In the verses

[1 Chronicles 14:5](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/1CH.14.5/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/1CH.14.5/#tree)

וְיִבְחָ֥ר וֶאֱלִישׁ֖וּעַ וְאֶלְפָּֽלֶט׃

*Word for word:* and Ibhar and Elishua and Elpelet

*JPS 1917:* and Ibhar, and Elishua, and Elpelet;

[2 Samuel 5:15](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/2SA.5.15/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/2SA.5.15/#tree)

וְיִבְחָ֥ר וֶאֱלִישׁ֖וּעַ וְנֶ֥פֶג וְיָפִֽיעַ׃

*Word for word:* and Ibhar and Elishua and Nepheg and Japhia

*JPS 1917:* and Ibhar, and Elishua, and Nepheg, and Japhia;

## On Mova

- [This word in the Tanakh dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/tanakh/w/474.html) on Mova free.
- [Trees and pragmatics of its meanings](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1488/474/): 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).