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אֶלְקָנָה

ʼElqânâh · H511 · Hebrew · proper noun · 21 occurrences

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This name belongs to 8 people

Meanings

  1. Elkanah

    Man; descendant of Kohath; tribe of Levi

    Examples

    Exodus 6:24 And the sons of Korah: Assir, Elkanah, and Abiasaph; these are the families of the Korahites.

    1 Chronicles 6:23 Elkanah his son, Ebiasaph his son, Assir his son,

  2. Elkanah

    The son of Jeroham, husband to Hannah and Peninnah, and father of the prophet Samuel

    Examples

    1 Samuel 1:1 Now there was a man from Ramathaim-zophim from the hill country of Ephraim, and his name was Elkanah the son of Jeroham, the son of Elihu, the son of Tohu, the son of Zuph, an Ephraimite.

    1 Samuel 1:4 When the day came that Elkanah sacrificed, he would give portions to his wife Peninnah and to all her sons and daughters;

    1 Samuel 1:8 Then Elkanah her husband would say to her, “Hannah, why do you weep, and why do you not eat, and why is your heart sad? Am I not better to you than ten sons?”

  3. Elkanah

    A warrior who lived during the time of King David

    Examples

    1 Chronicles 12:6 Elkanah, Isshiah, Azarel, Joezer, Jashobeam, the Korahites,

  4. Elkanah

    Man; tribe of Levi

    Examples

    1 Chronicles 6:25 The sons of Elkanah were Amasai and Ahimoth.

  5. Elkanah

    The son of Ahimoth (Mahath) and an ancestor of Samuel

    Examples

    1 Chronicles 6:26 As for Elkanah, the sons of Elkanah were Zophai his son, Nahath his son,

    1 Chronicles 6:35 the son of Zuph, the son of Elkanah, the son of Mahath, the son of Amasai,

  6. Elkanah

    The son of Joel from the tribe of Levi

    Examples

    1 Chronicles 6:36 the son of Elkanah, the son of Joel, the son of Azariah, the son of Zephaniah,

  7. Elkanah

    An ancestor of the Levite Berechiah

    Examples

    1 Chronicles 9:16 and Obadiah the son of Shemaiah, the son of Galal, the son of Jeduthun; and Berechiah the son of Asa, the son of Elkanah, who lived in the settlements of the Netophathites.

  8. Elkanah

    A carrier of the ark during King David's reign

    Examples

    1 Chronicles 15:23 Berechiah and Elkanah were gatekeepers for the ark.

  9. Elkanah

    An official serving as second-in-command to King Ahaz

    Examples

    2 Chronicles 28:7 And Zichri, a mighty man of Ephraim, killed Maaseiah the king’s son, Azrikam the ruler of the house, and Elkanah the second to the king.

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

5 occurrences in 4 groups

What is done to itIt is the object

2 occurrences in 2 groups

What it is said to bePredicate

1 occurrences in 1 groups

What is said to be itIt is the predicate

2 occurrences in 2 groups

In phrases “… of it”It is the genitive

6 occurrences in 1 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
אֶלְקָנָה is the personal name of the father of the prophet Samuel, husband of Hannah and Peninnah.
Brown-Driver-Briggs Hebrew Lexicon H511. Elqanah אֶלְקָנָה proper name, masculine (God has created, or taken possession) a.…
H511. Elqanah
אֶלְקָנָה proper name, masculine (God has created, or taken possession)
a. father of Samuel 1 Samuel 1-2 (8 t.) 1Ch 6:12; 1Ch 6:19.
b. son of Korah Exo 6:24.
c. a ruler in Jerusalem in the time of Ahaz2Ch 28:7.
d. one of David's warriors 1Ch 12:6.
e. several Levites (a) 1Ch 6:8; 1Ch 6:10; 1Ch 6:21. (β) v.1Ch 6:11; v.1Ch 6:20. (γ) 1Ch 9:16 (δ) 1Ch 15:23.

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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