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# אֶלְעָזָר

Biblical Hebrew · Strong's H499

**Eleazar** — used 72 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

Eleazar [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1488/499/#m1)

### Brown–Driver–Briggs 1906

אֶלְעָזָר: n.pr.m. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1488/499/#m2)

**The whole BDB entry:** n.pr.m. (God has helped, cf. אֱלִיעֶזֶר supr.) Eleazar the priest Ex 6:23 + (50 times in Hex) Ju 20:28; 1 Ch 5:29, 30; 6:35; 9:20; 24:1, 2, 3, 4(×2), 5, 6 Ezr 7:5. son of Abinadab 1 S 7:1. one of David’s heroes 2 S 23:9; 1 Ch 11:12; ins. also 1 Ch 27:4 cf. DrSm 280. a Levite 1 Ch 23:21, 22; 24:28. priest of the time of Ezra Ezr 8:33 Ne 12:42. one of the line of Parosh Ezr 10:25.

Why these entries: BDB: headword, part of speech agrees, 22 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: Eleazar (57); of Eleazar (13); \[was\] Eleazar (1).

## In the verses

[1 Chronicles 5:30](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/1CH.5.30/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/1CH.5.30/#tree)

אֶלְעָזָר֙ הוֹלִ֣יד אֶת־פִּֽינְחָ֔ס פִּֽינְחָ֖ס הֹלִ֥יד אֶת־אֲבִישֽׁוּעַ׃

*Word for word:* Eleazar he.fathered (et) Phinehas Phinehas he.fathered (et) Abishua

*JPS 1917:* Eleazar begot Phinehas, Phinehas begot Abishua;

[1 Chronicles 24:28](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/1CH.24.28/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/1CH.24.28/#tree)

לְמַחְלִי֙ אֶלְעָזָ֔ר וְלֹא־הָ֥יָה ל֖וֹ בָּנִֽים׃

*Word for word:* of.\[the\] Mahlite\[s\] Eleazar and not it.belonged to him sons

*JPS 1917:* Of Mahli: Eleazar, who had no sons.

## On Mova

- [This word in the Tanakh dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/tanakh/w/499.html) on Mova free.
- [Trees and pragmatics of its meanings](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1488/499/): 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).