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# אֶלְעָשָׂה

Biblical Hebrew · Strong's H501

**Elasah** — used 6 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

Elasah [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1488/501/#m1)

### Brown–Driver–Briggs 1906

אֶלְעָשָׂה: n.pr.m. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1488/501/#m2)

**The whole BDB entry:** n.pr.m. (God has made, cf. עֲשָׂהאֵל, יַעֲשִׂיאֵל etc.) descendant of Judah 1 Ch 2:39, 40. a Benjamite 1 Ch 8:37; 9:43. of the line of Pashur Ezr 10:22. son of Shaphan Je 29:3.

Why these entries: BDB: headword, part of speech agrees, 6 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, 0 with the glosses (1 candidates)

## Glosses

MACULA's English glosses of the word in the text, with how often each is used: Eleasah (5); of Eleasah (1).

## In the verses

[1 Chronicles 2:39](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/1CH.2.39/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/1CH.2.39/#tree)

וַעֲזַרְיָה֙ הֹלִ֣יד אֶת־חָ֔לֶץ וְחֶ֖לֶץ הֹלִ֥יד אֶת־אֶלְעָשָֽׂה׃

*Word for word:* and Azariah he.fathered (et) Helez and Helez he.fathered (et) Eleasah

*JPS 1917:* and Azariah begot Helez, and Helez begot Eleasah;

[1 Chronicles 2:40](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/1CH.2.40/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/1CH.2.40/#tree)

וְאֶלְעָשָׂה֙ הֹלִ֣יד אֶת־סִֽסְמָ֔י וְסִסְמַ֖י הֹלִ֥יד אֶת־שַׁלּֽוּם׃

*Word for word:* and Eleasah he.fathered (et) Sismai and Sismai he.fathered (et) Shallum

*JPS 1917:* and Eleasah begot Sisamai, and Sisamai begot Shallum;

## On Mova

- [Trees and pragmatics of its meanings](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1488/501/): 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).