Eliel = "my God is God" or "El is God"

1. an ancestor of Samuel

2. chief in David's army (might be two or three different men)

3. a Levite with David in moving the ark

4. a chief of Manasseh

5. two chiefs of Benjamin

6. a chief Kohathite

7. a Levite

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

Jeroham = "showing pity"

1. father of Elkanah and grandfather of Samuel of the house of Kohath

2. a Benjamite and the founder of a family of Benjamites

3. father or progenitor of Ibneiah and a Benjamite; maybe same as 2

4. a descendant of Aaron and a priest of the family of Immer; son of Pashur and father of Adaiah

5. another priest; maybe same as 4

6. a resident of Gedor and father of one of David's mighty warriors

7. a Danite whose son or descendant Azareel was head of the tribe in the time of David

8. father of Azariah one of the captains with Jehoiada in the time of Athaliah

Toah = "lowly"

1. son of Zuph, father of Eliel, and ancestor of Samuel and Heman