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HebrewH0475Proper Noun (Masculine)

אֶלְיָשִׁיב

el.ya.shiv

15Occurrences
H0475Strong's #
Proper Noun (Masculine)Part of Speech

Definition

Quick Definition(Strong's Concordance)

Eljashib, the name of six Israelites

from H410 (אֵל) and H7725 (שׁוּב); God will restore;

Full Lexicon Entry(Abbott-Smith)
A man of the tribe of Judah living at the time of Divided Monarchy, only mentioned at ; son of: Elioenai (H0454B); brother of: Hodaviah (H1938), Pelaiah (H6411B), Akkub (H6126), Johanan (H3110I), Delaiah (H1806) and Anani (H6054) § Eliashib = "God restores" 1) a priest in David's reign 2) a descendant of ) a high priest in Nehemiah's time 4) a temple singer with foreign wife 5) one of the line of ) one of the line of Bani

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Grammar & Morphology

Part of Speech

Proper Noun (Masculine)

Morphology Code

N:N-M-P

Full Description

Proper Noun, Masculine

Occurrences

אֶלְיָשִׁיב appears 15 times in the Old Testament.

Distribution by Book

Nehemiah
9
Ezra
4
1 Chronicles
2

Key Passages

1 Chronicles 24:12BSB

the eleventh to Eliashib,the twelfth to Jakim,

Ezra 10:24BSB

From the singers:Eliashib.From the gatekeepers:Shallum, Telem, and Uri.

Nehemiah 12:10BSB

Jeshua was the father of Joiakim,Joiakim was the father of Eliashib,Eliashib was the father of Joiada,

Nehemiah 13:4BSB

Now before this, Eliashib the priest, a relative of Tobiah, had been put in charge of the storerooms of the house of our God

Nehemiah 3:1BSB

At the Sheep Gate, Eliashib the high priest and his fellow priests began rebuilding. They dedicated it and installed its doors. After building as far as the Tower of the Hundred and the Tower of Hananel, they dedicated the wall.

Lexicon data from STEPBible.org (Tyndale House, Cambridge) under CC BY 4.0 license.