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# אֱלִישָׁמָע

Biblical Hebrew · Strong's H476

**Elishama** — used 17 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

Elishama [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1488/476/#m1)

### Brown–Driver–Briggs 1906

**The whole BDB entry:** (God has heard, cf. יִשְׁמָעֵאל, & Sab. אלסמע, יסמעאל Hal187, 193) chief of Ephraim Nu 1:10; 2:18; 7:48, 53; 10:22; 1 Ch 7:26. son of David 2 S 5:16 1 Ch 3:6, 8; 14:7. scribe of Jehoiakim Je 36:12, 20, 21. one of the royal seed 2 K 25:25; Je 41:1. a man of Judah 1 Ch 2:41. a priest 2 Ch 17:8.

Why these entries: BDB: headword, part of speech not compared, 17 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: Elishama (11); of Elishama (5); \[was\] Elishama (1).

## In the verses

[2 Samuel 5:16](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/2SA.5.16/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/2SA.5.16/#tree)

וֶאֱלִישָׁמָ֥ע וְאֶלְיָדָ֖ע וֶאֱלִיפָֽלֶט׃פ

*Word for word:* and Elishama and Eliada and Eliphelet

*JPS 1917:* and Elishama, and Eliada, and Eliphelet.

[1 Chronicles 3:6](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/1CH.3.6/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/1CH.3.6/#tree)

וְיִבְחָ֥ר וֶאֱלִישָׁמָ֖ע וֶאֱלִיפָֽלֶט׃

*Word for word:* and Ibhar and Elishama and Eliphelet

*JPS 1917:* and Ibhar, and Elishama, and Eliphelet;

## On Mova

- [This word in the Tanakh dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/tanakh/w/476.html) on Mova free.
- [Trees and pragmatics of its meanings](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1488/476/): 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).