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אֱלִיאָב

ʼĔlîyʼâb · H446 · Hebrew · proper noun · 21 occurrences

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This name belongs to 6 people

Meanings

  1. Eliab

    Man; son of Helon; tribe of Zebulun; chief; time of Moses

    Examples

    Numbers 1:9 of Zebulun, Eliab the son of Helon;

    Numbers 2:7 “Then follows the tribe of Zebulun; and the leader of the sons of Zebulun: Eliab the son of Helon,

    Numbers 7:24 On the third day it was Eliab the son of Helon, leader of the sons of Zebulun;

  2. Eliab

    Man; tribe of Reuben; father of Dathan and Abiram

    Examples

    Numbers 16:1 Now Korah the son of Izhar, the son of Kohath, the son of Levi, with Dathan and Abiram, the sons of Eliab, and On the son of Peleth, sons of Reuben, took men,

    Numbers 16:12 Then Moses sent a summons to Dathan and Abiram, the sons of Eliab; but they said, “We will not come up.

    Numbers 26:8 The son of Pallu: Eliab.

  3. Eliab

    Man; oldest son of Jesse; brother of David; tribe of Judah

    Examples

    1 Samuel 16:6 When they entered, he looked at Eliab and thought, “Surely the LORD’S anointed is standing before Him.”

    1 Samuel 17:13 The three older sons of Jesse had followed Saul to the battle. And the names of his three sons who had gone into the battle were Eliab the firstborn, and second to him, Abinadab, and the third, Shammah.

    1 Samuel 17:28 Now Eliab his oldest brother heard him when he spoke to the men; and Eliab’s anger burned against David and he said, “Why is it that you have come down? And with whom have you left those few sheep in the wilderness? I myself know your insolence and the wickedness of your heart; for you have come down in order to see the battle.”

  4. Eliab

    Man, also known as Eliel and Elihu; descendant of Elkanah; tribe of Levi; ancestor of Samuel and Heman

    Examples

    1 Chronicles 6:27 Eliab his son, Jeroham his son, and Elkanah his son.

  5. Eliab

    Various men; tribe of Levi

    Examples

    1 Chronicles 15:18 and with them their relatives of the second rank, Zechariah, Ben, Jaaziel, Shemiramoth, Jehiel, Unni, Eliab, Benaiah, Maaseiah, Mattithiah, Eliphelehu, Mikneiah, Obed-edom, and Jeiel, the gatekeepers.

    1 Chronicles 15:20 and Zechariah, Aziel, Shemiramoth, Jehiel, Unni, Eliab, Maaseiah, and Benaiah, with harps tuned to alamoth;

    1 Chronicles 16:5 Asaph the chief, and second to him Zechariah, then Jeiel, Shemiramoth, Jehiel, Mattithiah, Eliab, Benaiah, Obed-edom, and Jeiel, with musical instruments, harps, and lyres; also Asaph played loud-sounding cymbals,

  6. Eliab

    Man; tribe of Gad; warrior; time of king David

    Examples

    1 Chronicles 12:9 Ezer was the first, Obadiah the second, Eliab the third,

How it’s used In 6 roles

Every occurrence, grouped by the words it is grammatically related to.

the word studied the word it goes with

Named alongside itApposition

11 occurrences in 4 groups

What it doesIt is the subject

1 occurrences in 1 groups

What is done to itIt is the object

1 occurrences in 1 groups

What it is said to bePredicate

5 occurrences in 6 groups

What is said to be itIt is the predicate

3 occurrences in 3 groups

In phrases “… of it”It is the genitive

7 occurrences in 4 groups

When two words share a role, as in “Paul and Barnabas said”, the verse appears under each, so a section’s counts can add up to more than the number of occurrences.

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Semantic domains 1 entry
Names of People003001007
אֱלִיאָב is the personal name borne by several figures, including a tribal leader of Zebulun and David's eldest brother.
Brown-Driver-Briggs Hebrew Lexicon H446. Eliab אֱלִיאָב proper name, masculine (God is father, compare אֲבִיאֵל) a. prince…
H446. Eliab
אֱלִיאָב proper name, masculine (God is father, compare אֲבִיאֵל)
a. prince of Zebulon Num 1:9; Num 2:7; Num 7:24, Num 7:29; Num 10:16.
b. prince of Reuben Num 16:1, Num 16:12; Num 26:8-9, Deu 11:6.
c. brother of David 1Sa 16:6; 1Sa 17:3, 1Sa 17:28 (twice in verse); 1Ch 2:13; 2Ch 11:18 (compare אֱלִיהוּ 1Ch 27:18).
d. a Kohathite 1Ch 6:12 = אֱלִיאֵל v.1Ch 6:19 compare אֱלִיהוּ 1Sa 1:1.
e. a Gadite 1Ch 12:9. feminine Levite singer 1Ch 15:18, 1Ch 15:20; 1Ch 16:5.

Brown, Driver and Briggs, A Hebrew and English Lexicon of the Old Testament (1906), public domain

Topical studies with this word 1 entry
Names of People21 occurrences

Meanings adapted from the UBS Dictionary of the Greek New Testament, © United Bible Societies, CC BY-SA 4.0 and the UBS Dictionary of Biblical Hebrew (from the Semantic Dictionary of Biblical Hebrew), © United Bible Societies, CC BY-SA 4.0; MACULA Greek Linguistic Datasets, available at https://github.com/Clear-Bible/macula-greek/, licensed CC BY 4.0; MACULA Hebrew Linguistic Datasets © 2022-2024 by Biblica, Inc., CC BY 4.0. Westminster Leningrad Codex (tanach.us). OpenScriptures Hebrew Bible morphology (hb.openscriptures.org), CC BY 4.0.

Sources

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