ʼĔlîyʻezer — H461

Definition

masculine proper noun

Eliezer, the name of a Damascene and of ten Israelites

1. Eliezer = "God is help"
2. Abraham's Damascene servant
3. a son of Moses
4. a Benjamite
5. a priest who helped move the ark
6. a Reubenite
7. a prophet who spoke to Jehoshaphat
8. a Levite chief
9. son of Harim
10. priest with foreign wife

Usually translated as

Eliezer

Origin

from H410 and H5828; God of help

• Derived from ʼêl (H410)
• Derived from ʻêzer (H5828)

Greek equivalents

• Eliézer (G1663)

Occurrences

ʼĔlîyʻezer occurs 14 times in 13 verses of the King James.

Distribution of the word across the Bible: Genesis (1), Exodus (1), 1 Chronicles (6), 2 Chronicles (1), Ezra (4)

• Genesis 15:2 — And Abram said, Lord GOD, what wilt thou give me, seeing I go childless, and the steward of my house is this Eliezer (אֱלִיעֶֽזֶר) of Damascus?
• Exodus 18:4 — And the name of the other was Eliezer (אֱלִיעֶ֑זֶר); for the God of my father, said he, was mine help, and delivered me from the sword of Pharaoh:
• 1 Chronicles 7:8 — And the sons of Becher; Zemira, and Joash, and Eliezer (וֶ֠אֱלִיעֶזֶר), and Elioenai, and Omri, and Jerimoth, and Abiah, and Anathoth, and Alameth. All these are the sons of Becher.
• 1 Chronicles 15:24 — And Shebaniah, and Jehoshaphat, and Nethaneel, and Amasai, and Zechariah, and Benaiah, and Eliezer (וֶֽאֱלִיעֶ֙זֶר֙), the priests, did blow with the trumpets before the ark of God: and Obed-edom and Jehiah were doorkeepers for the ark.
• 1 Chronicles 23:15 — The sons of Moses were, Gershom, and Eliezer (וֶאֱלִיעֶֽזֶר).
• 1 Chronicles 23:17 — And the sons of Eliezer (אֱלִיעֶ֖זֶר) were, Rehabiah the chief. And Eliezer had none other sons; but the sons of Rehabiah were very many.
• 1 Chronicles 23:17 — And the sons of Eliezer were, Rehabiah the chief. And Eliezer (לֶאֱלִיעֶ֙זֶר֙) had none other sons; but the sons of Rehabiah were very many.
• 1 Chronicles 26:25 — And his brethren by Eliezer (לֶֽאֱלִיעֶ֑זֶר); Rehabiah his son, and Jeshaiah his son, and Joram his son, and Zichri his son, and Shelomith his son.
• 1 Chronicles 27:16 — Furthermore over the tribes of Israel: the ruler of the Reubenites was Eliezer (אֱלִיעֶ֖זֶר) the son of Zichri: of the Simeonites, Shephatiah the son of Maachah:
• 2 Chronicles 20:37 — Then Eliezer (אֱלִיעֶ֤זֶר) the son of Dodavah of Mareshah prophesied against Jehoshaphat, saying, Because thou hast joined thyself with Ahaziah, the LORD hath broken thy works. And the ships were broken, that they were not able to go to Tarshish.
• Ezra 8:16 — Then sent I for Eliezer (לֶאֱלִיעֶ֡זֶר), for Ariel, for Shemaiah, and for Elnathan, and for Jarib, and for Elnathan, and for Nathan, and for Zechariah, and for Meshullam, chief men; also for Joiarib, and for Elnathan, men of understanding.
• Ezra 10:18 — And among the sons of the priests there were found that had taken strange wives: namely, of the sons of Jeshua the son of Jozadak, and his brethren; Maaseiah, and Eliezer (וֶֽאֱלִיעֶ֔זֶר), and Jarib, and Gedaliah.
• Ezra 10:23 — Also of the Levites; Jozabad, and Shimei, and Kelaiah, (the same is Kelita,) Pethahiah, Judah, and Eliezer (וֶאֱלִיעֶֽזֶר).
• Ezra 10:31 — And of the sons of Harim; Eliezer (אֱלִיעֶ֧זֶר), Ishijah, Malchiah, Shemaiah, Shimeon,