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

Joel = "Jehovah is God"

1. son of Pethuel and the 2nd of the 12 minor prophets with a book by his name; probably prophesied in the time of king Uzziah of Judah

2. eldest son of Samuel the prophet and father of Heman the singer

3. a Simeonite chief

4. a Reubenite

5. a chief of Gad

6. son of Izrahiah and a chief of Issachar

7. brother of Nathan of Zobah and one of David's mighty warriors

8. son of Pedaiah and a chief of the half tribe of Manasseh west of the Jordan in the time of David

9. a son of Nebo who returned with Ezra and had a foreign wife

10. a Benjamite, son of Zichri

11. a Levite

12. a Kohathite Levite in the reign of Hezekiah

13. a Gershonite Levite chief in the time of David

14. a Gershonite Levite, son of Jehiel and a descendant of Laadan; maybe same as 13

Azariah = "Jehovah has helped"

1. son of king Amaziah of Judah and king of Judah himself for 52 years; also 'Uzziah'

2. the godly friend of Daniel who Nebuchadnezzar renamed Abednego; 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

   1. also, 'Abednego' (H5664 or H5665)

3. son of Nathan and an officer of Solomon; perhaps David's grandson and Solomon's nephew

4. a prophet in the days of king Asa of Judah

5. son of king Jehoshaphat of Judah and brother to 5

6. another son of king Jehoshaphat of Judah and brother to 4

7. a priest, son of Ahimaaz, grandson of Zadok and high priest in the reign of king Solomon

8. the high priest in the reign of king Uzziah of Judah

9. a priest who sealed the covenant with Nehemiah; probably same as 18

10. a Kohathite Levite, father of Joel in the reign of king Hezekiah of Judah

11. a Merarite Levite, son of Jehalelel in the reign of king Hezekiah of Judah

12. a Kohathite Levite, son of Zephaniah and ancestor of Samuel the prophet

13. a Levite who helped Ezra in instructing the people in the law

14. son of Jeroham and one of the temple captains of Judah in the time of queen Athaliah; probably the same as 21

15. son of Maaseiah who repaired part of the wall of Jerusalem in the time of Nehemiah

16. one of the leaders who returned from Babylon with Zerubbabel

17. a man who assisted in the dedication of the wall of Jerusalem in the time of Nehemiah; probably the same as 10

18. son of Johanan, one of the captains of Ephraim in the reign of king Ahaz of Judah

19. a Judaite, son of Ethan of the sons of Zerah

20. a Judaite, son of Jehu of the family of the Jerahmeelites and descended from Jarha the Egyptian slave of Sheshan; probably one of the captains of the time of queen Athaliah and the same as 15

21. a priest, son of Hilkiah

22. a priest, son of Johanan

23. son of king Jehoram of Judah; probably clerical error for 'Ahaziah'

24. son of Meraioth

25. son of Hoshaiah and one of the proud men who confronted Jeremiah

Zephaniah = "Jehovah has treasured"

1. the 9th in order of the 12 minor prophets; descendant of king Hezekiah of Judah and prophet in the time of king Josiah of Judah

2. son of Maaseiah and second priest in the reign of king Zedekiah of Judah; succeeded Jehoiada and an officer of the temple; slain at Riblah on the capture of Jerusalem

3. father of Josiah and Hen in the time of the prophet Zechariah

4. a Levite