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# אֶלְקָנָה

Biblical Hebrew · Strong's H511

**Elkanah** — used 21 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

Elkanah [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1488/511/#m1)

### Brown–Driver–Briggs 1906

אֶלְקָנָה: n.pr.m. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1488/511/#m2)

**The whole BDB entry:** n.pr.m. (God has created, or taken possession) father of Samuel 1 S 1–2 (8 times) 1 Ch 6:12, 19. son of Korah Ex 6:24. a ruler in Jerusalem in the time of Ahaz 2 Ch 28:7. one of David’s warriors 1 Ch 12:6. several Levites (α) 1 Ch 6:8, 10, 21 (β) v 11, 20 (γ) 9:16 (δ) 15:23.

Why these entries: BDB: headword, part of speech agrees, 11 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: Elkanah (15); of Elkanah (5); \[was\] Elkanah (1).

## In the verses

[1 Chronicles 6:10](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/1CH.6.10/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/1CH.6.10/#tree)

וּבְנֵי֙ אֶלְקָנָ֔ה עֲמָשַׂ֖י וַאֲחִימֽוֹת׃

*Word for word:* and the.sons of.Elkanah \[were\].Amasai and Ahimoth

*JPS 1917:* And the sons of Elkanah: Amasai, and Ahimoth.

[1 Chronicles 6:19](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/1CH.6.19/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/1CH.6.19/#tree)

בֶּן־אֶלְקָנָה֙ בֶּן־יְרֹחָ֔ם בֶּן־אֱלִיאֵ֖ל בֶּן־תּֽוֹחַ׃

*Word for word:* the.son of.Elkanah the.son of.Jeroham the.son of.Eliel the.son of.Toah

*JPS 1917:* the son of Elkanah, the son of Jeroham, the son of Eliel, the son of Toah;

## On Mova

- [This word in the Tanakh dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/tanakh/w/511.html) on Mova free.
- [Trees and pragmatics of its meanings](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1488/511/): 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).