Elizaphan or Elzaphan = "my God has protected"

1. a Kohathite chief in the wilderness

2. a Zebulunite chief

3. Uzziel's son, Mishael's brother in time of Moses

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

Mishael = "who is what God is"

1. the godly friend of Daniel who Nebuchadnezzar renamed Meshach; one of the three friends who with Daniel refused to make themselves unclean by eating food from the king's table which went against the dietary laws which God had given the Jews; also one of the three who were thrown into the fiery furnace for refusing to bow down to a graven image of Nebuchadnezzar and who were saved by the angel of the Lord

2. a son of Uzziel and a cousin of Moses and Aaron

3. one of those who stood at the left hand of Ezra when he read the law to the people

Zithri = "protection of Jehovah"

1. son of Uzziel and grandson of Kohath the son of Levi

   1. more properly 'Sithri'

Uzziel = "my strength is God"

1. the 4th son of Kohath and grandson of Levi, uncle of Moses and Aaron

2. a Simeonite captain, son of Ishi, in the days of king Hezekiah of Judah

3. descendant of Bela, head of a family in the tribe of Benjamin

4. a musician of the sons of Heman in the time of David

5. a Levite of the sons of Jeduthun in the days of king Hezekiah of Judah

6. son of Harhaiah, probably a priest and a goldsmith, who took part in repairing the wall under Nehemiah