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# אֱלִישָׁע

Biblical Hebrew · Strong's H477

**Elisha** — used 58 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

Elisha [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1488/477/#m1)

### Brown–Driver–Briggs 1906

אֱלִישָׁע: n.pr.m. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1488/477/#m2)

**The whole BDB entry:** n.pr.m. (God is salvation, cf. אֱלִישׁוּעַ, Sab. יתֿעאל DHMZMG 1883, 15) the prophet Elisha, the successor of Elijah 1 K 19:16 + 57 times all K; Ἐλισα, Ἐλισαιε 𝔊; Ἐλισαιος Lu 4:27.

Why these entries: BDB: headword, part of speech agrees, 1 of its verses cited, 0 words shared with the glosses, lists its Strong's number (2 candidates); OSHB: headword, part of speech agrees, 1 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: Elisha (51); of Elisha (6); O Elisha (1).

## In the verses

[2 Kings 2:22](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/2KI.2.22/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/2KI.2.22/#tree)

וַיֵּרָפ֣וּ הַמַּ֔יִם עַ֖ד הַיּ֣וֹם הַזֶּ֑ה כִּדְבַ֥ר אֱלִישָׁ֖ע אֲשֶׁ֥ר דִּבֵּֽר׃פ

*Word for word:* and they.have.been.healed the waters until the day (the) this according to.the.word of.Elisha which he.spoke

*JPS 1917:* So the waters were healed unto this day, according to the word of Elisha which he spoke.

[2 Kings 4:32](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/2KI.4.32/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/2KI.4.32/#tree)

וַיָּבֹ֥א אֱלִישָׁ֖ע הַבָּ֑יְתָה וְהִנֵּ֤ה הַנַּ֙עַר֙ מֵ֔ת מֻשְׁכָּ֖ב עַל־מִטָּתֽוֹ׃

*Word for word:* and he.came Elisha to the house and there! the lad \[was\].dead \[he.was\].laid on bed his

*JPS 1917:* And when Elisha was come into the house, behold, the child was dead, and laid upon his bed.

## On Mova

- [Trees and pragmatics of its meanings](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1488/477/): 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).