Elijah or Eliah = "my God is Jehovah" or "Yah(u) is God"

1. the great prophet of the reign of Ahab

2. Benjamite son of Jeroham

3. a son of Elam with foreign wife during exile

4. a son of Harim, and priest, with foreign wife during exile

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

Zechariah = "Jehovah remembers"

1. 11th in order of the minor prophets; a priest, son of Berechiah and grandson of Iddo, who, along with Haggai, directed the rebuilding of the temple in the days of Zerubbabel

2. king of Israel, son of Jeroboam II

3. son of Meshelemiah of Shelemiah, a Korhite, and keeper of the north gate of the tabernacle of the congregation

4. one of the sons of Jehiel

5. a Levite of the second order in the temple band in the time of David

6. one of the princes of Judah in the reign of Jehoshaphat

7. son of the high priest Jehoiada, in the reign of Joash king of Judah, who was stoned in the court of the temple

8. a Kohathite Levite in the reign of Josiah

9. the leader of the sons of Pharosh who returned with Ezra

10. son of Bebai

11. one of the chiefs of the people whom Ezra summoned in council at the river Ahava; stood at Ezra's left hand when Ezra expounded the law to the people

12. one of the family of Elam who had married a foreign wife after the captivity

13. ancestor of Athaiah or Uthai

14. a Shilonite, descendant of Perez, grandfather of Athaiah

15. a priest, son of Pashur

16. the representative of the priestly family of Iddo in the days of Joiakim the son of Jeshua; possibly the same as 1 above

17. one of the priests, son of Jonathan, who blew with the trumpets at the dedication of the city wall by Ezra and Nehemiah

18. a chief of the Reubenites at the time of the captivity by Tiglath-pileser

19. one of the priests who accompanied the ark from the house of Obed-edom

20. son of Isshiah of Jesiah, a Kohathite Levite descended from Uzziel

21. 4th son of Hosah, of the children of Merari

22. a Manassite, father of Iddo

23. father of Jahaziel. He prophesied in the spirit

24. one of the sons of Jehoshaphat

25. a prophet in the reign of Uzziah, who appears to have acted as the king's counsellor, but of whom nothing is known

26. father of Abijah or Abi, Hezekiah's mother

27. one of the family of Asaph in the reign of Hezekiah

28. one of the rulers of the temple in the reign of Josiah

29. son of Jeberechiah who was taken by the prophet Isaiah as one of the 'faithful witnesses to record' when he wrote concerning Maher-shalal-hash-baz

Jehiel = "God lives"

1. a Levite and one of the chief musicians in the time of David

2. a Gershonite Levite who had charge of the treasures in the time of David

3. son of Hachmoni and an officer of David and tutor of David's sons

4. a son of king Jehoshaphat of Judah put to death by his brother Jehoram

5. Hemanite who took part in the restoration of king Hezekiah

6. a Levite and overseer in the time of Hezekiah

7. a ruler of the temple during the reforms of Josiah

8. father of Obadiah of the sons of Joab in the time of Ezra

9. father of Shechaniah of the sons of Elam in the time of Ezra

10. a son of Elam who put away his foreign wife in the time of Ezra

11. a priest of the sons of Harim who also had to put away his foreign wife in the time of Ezra

Jerimoth or Jeremoth = "He is Most High"

1. a Benjamite, son of Bela and head of a house of Benjamite

2. a Benjamite, son of Becher and head of a house of Benjamite

3. a Benjamite, son of Beriah and grandson of Elpaal

4. a Merarite Levite, son of Mushi

5. one of the men that joined David in the wilderness

6. a Levite, son of Heman and head of the 15th course of musicians

7. a Levite in the reign of Hezekiah

8. a son of Azriel, ruler of the tribe of Naphtali in the reign of David

9. a son of king David and the father of the wife of Rehoboam

10. a son of Elam, a man with a foreign wife in the time of Ezra

11. a son of Zattu, a man with a foreign wife in the time of Ezra

Mattaniah = "gift of Jehovah"

1. the original name of the last king of Judah before the captivity; also known as 'Zedekiah'

2. a Levite, son of Heman, whose office was to blow the horns in the temple service as appointed by David

3. a Levite of the family of Asaph

4. a Levite of the family of Asaph who assisted in the purification of the temple in the reign of Hezekiah

5. a Levite of the family of Asaph who took part in the dedication of the wall of Jerusalem; leader of the temple choir

6. a Levite, descendant of Asaph and ancestor of Jahaziel in the time of Jehoshaphat

7. another Levite in the time of Nehemiah

8. a Levite, father of Zaccur and ancestor of Hanan the under-treasurer who had charge of the offerings in the time of Nehemiah

9. a man of the sons of Elam who had and put away a strange wife in the time of Ezra

10. a man of the sons of Zattu who had and put away a strange wife in the time of Ezra

11. a man descended from Pahath-moab who had and put away a strange wife in the time of Ezra

12. a man of the sons of Bani who had and put away a strange wife in the time of Ezra

Abdi = "servant of Jehovah"

1. a Merarite Levite and ancestor of Ethan the singer

2. a Merarite Levite, father of Kish, in the time of king Hezekiah of Judah

3. one of the family of Elam who had a foreign wife in the time of Ezra

Elam = "eternity"

1. a Korhite Levite in the time of David

2. a chief man of the tribe of Benjamin

3. ancestor of a family of exiles who returned with Zerubbabel

4. a chief of the people who signed the covenant with Nehemiah

5. another ancestor of another family of exiles who returned with Zerubbabel

6. a priest who assisted at the dedication of the wall of Jerusalem in the time of Nehemiah

7. another head of a family of returning exiles

   proper locative noun

8. a province east of Babylon and northeast of the lower Tigris