Word

עֵלִי

ʻÊlîy · H5941 · Hebrew · proper noun · 33 occurrences

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Person

Elifirst named in 1 Samuel 1:330 verses

Meanings

Eli

A priest in the time of Samuel

Examples
1 Samuel 1:3 Now this man would go up from his city yearly to worship and to sacrifice to the LORD of armies in Shiloh. And the two sons of Eli, Hophni and Phinehas, were priests to the LORD there.
1 Samuel 1:9 Then Hannah got up after eating and drinking in Shiloh. Now Eli the priest was sitting on the seat by the doorpost of the temple of the LORD.
1 Samuel 1:12 Now it came about, as she continued praying before the LORD, that Eli was watching her mouth.

How it’s used In 5 roles

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

the word studied the word it goes with

Named alongside itApposition

3 occurrences in 1 groups

כֹּהֵןpriest 3

What it doesIt is the subject

13 occurrences in 11 groups

Other words · 11 groups that occur once or twice (13) 13

What it is said to bePredicate

1 occurrences in 1 groups

בֵּןson 1

After prepositionsPrepositional phrases

9 occurrences in 2 groups

אֵלto, toward 16
לto/for 2

In phrases “… of it”It is the genitive

10 occurrences in 3 groups

בֵּןson 5
בַּיִתhouse, household 3
פָּנִיםface, presence, before 2

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: עֵלִי (Eli) is a personal name, the priest and judge who raised Samuel (1 Samuel 1-4).

Brown-Driver-Briggs Hebrew Lexicon H5941. Eli עֵלִי proper name, masculine Eli, priest at Shiloh 1Sa 1:3 ( + 1Sa 1:3 ᵐ5 Th…

H5941. Eli
עֵלִי proper name, masculine Eli, priest at Shiloh 1Sa 1:3 ( + 1Sa 1:3 ᵐ5 Th Klo HPS), 1Sa 1:9; 1Sa 1:12 1Sa 1:28t. 1-4 + 1Sa 14:3; 1Ki 2:27; Ηλει.

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 People33 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

eRhema lexical overview, based on the UBS Dictionary of Biblical Hebrew and the UBS Dictionary of the Greek New Testament (© United Bible Societies, CC BY-SA 4.0) and Macula Hebrew and Greek (Clear Bible, CC BY 4.0); released under CC BY-SA 4.0