ʼĔlîyʼêl — H447

Definition

masculine proper noun

Eliel, the name of nine Israelites

1. Eliel = "my God is God" or "El is God"
2. an ancestor of Samuel
3. chief in David's army (might be two or three different men)
4. a Levite with David in moving the ark
5. a chief of Manasseh
6. two chiefs of Benjamin
7. a chief Kohathite
8. a Levite

Usually translated as

Eliel

Origin

from H410 repeated; God of (his) God

• Derived from ʼêl (H410)

Occurrences

ʼĔlîyʼêl occurs 10 times in the King James.

Distribution of the word across the Bible: 1 Chronicles (9), 2 Chronicles (1)

• 1 Chronicles 5:24 — And these were the heads of the house of their fathers, even Epher, and Ishi, and Eliel (וֶאֱלִיאֵ֡ל), and Azriel, and Jeremiah, and Hodaviah, and Jahdiel, mighty men of valour, famous men, and heads of the house of their fathers.
• 1 Chronicles 6:34 — The son of Elkanah, the son of Jeroham, the son of Eliel (אֱלִיאֵ֖ל), the son of Toah,
• 1 Chronicles 8:20 — And Elienai, and Zilthai, and Eliel (וֶאֱלִיאֵֽל),
• 1 Chronicles 8:22 — And Ishpan, and Heber, and Eliel (וֶאֱלִיאֵֽל),
• 1 Chronicles 11:46 — Eliel (אֱלִיאֵל֙) the Mahavite, and Jeribai, and Joshaviah, the sons of Elnaam, and Ithmah the Moabite,
• 1 Chronicles 11:47 — Eliel (אֱלִיאֵ֣ל), and Obed, and Jasiel the Mesobaite.
• 1 Chronicles 12:11 — Attai the sixth, Eliel (אֱלִיאֵ֖ל) the seventh,
• 1 Chronicles 15:9 — Of the sons of Hebron; Eliel (אֱלִיאֵ֥ל) the chief, and his brethren fourscore:
• 1 Chronicles 15:11 — And David called for Zadok and Abiathar the priests, and for the Levites, for Uriel, Asaiah, and Joel, Shemaiah, and Eliel (וֶאֱלִיאֵ֖ל), and Amminadab,
• 2 Chronicles 31:13 — And Jehiel, and Azaziah, and Nahath, and Asahel, and Jerimoth, and Jozabad, and Eliel (וֶאֱלִיאֵ֣ל), and Ismachiah, and Mahath, and Benaiah, were overseers under the hand of Cononiah and Shimei his brother, at the commandment of Hezekiah the king, and Azariah the ruler of the house of God.