Elkanah = "God has possessed" or "God has created"

1. Samuel's father

2. a ruler in Jerusalem in the time of king Ahaz

3. one of David's mighty warriors

4. son of Korah

5. several Levites

son, grandson, child, member of a group

1. son, male child

2. grandson

3. children (pl. - male and female)

4. youth, young men (pl.)

5. young (of animals)

6. sons (as characterisation, i.e. sons of injustice [for un- righteous men] or sons of God [for angels]

7. people (of a nation) (pl.)

8. of lifeless things, i.e. sparks, stars, arrows (fig.)

9. a member of a guild, order, class

Mahath = "grasping"

1. a Kohathite Levite of the house of Korah

2. a Kohathite Levite in the reign of king Hezekiah

Amasai = "burdensome"

1. a warrior and chief of the captains of Judah and Benjamin who joined David at Ziklag

2. a Kohathite Levite, father of Mahath and ancestor of Samuel

3. a priest who blew the trumpet before the ark

4. another Kohathite Levite in the reign of king Hezekiah of Judah

Zuph or Zophai = "honeycomb"

1. a Kohathite Levite, ancestor of Elkanah and Samuel

   proper locative noun

2. a district northwest of Jerusalem where Saul encountered Samuel