Elah = "An oak"

1. an Edomite chief

2. a king of Israel for two years, son of Baasha

3. the father of king Hoshea of Israel

4. a son of Caleb

5. son of Uzzi

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

Ibneiah = "Jehovah builds"

1. a Benjamite, son of Jehoram

Ibnijah = "whom Jehovah will build up"

1. a Benjamite

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

Michri = "worthy of price"

1. ancestor of Elah, one of the heads of Benjamin

Meshullam = "friend"

1. grandfather of Shaphan, the scribe

2. son of Zerubbabel

3. a Benjamite of the sons of Elpaal

4. a Benjamite, father of Sallu

5. a Benjamite who lived at Jerusalem after the captivity

6. a Benjamite

   1. perhaps the same as 3 or 4

7. a Gadite in the reign of king Jotham of Judah

8. son of Berechiah who assisted in rebuilding the wall of Jerusalem

9. son of Besodeiah who assisted Jehoiada the son of Paseah in restoring the old gate of Jerusalem

10. a chief of the people who sealed the covenant with Nehemiah

11. father of Hilkiah and high priest probably in the reign of king Amon of Judah

    1. perhaps the same as 'Shallum'

12. a priest, son of Meshillemith or Meshillemoth, son of Immer, and ancestor of Maasiai or Amashai

13. a priest or family of priests who sealed the covenant with Nehemiah

14. a priest, head of the family of Ginnethon and representative of the house of Ezra in the days of Joiakim, the son of Jeshua

15. a priest, one of the princes of Judah at the dedication of the wall of Jerusalem

16. a Kohathite or family of Kohathite Levites in the reign of Josiah

17. a Levite, one of the heads sent to Iddo to gather the Levites to join the caravan about to return to Jerusalem; a chief man who assisted Ezra in abolishing the marriages which some of the people had made with foreign wives

18. ancestor of a family of porters or Levites in days of Nehemiah

19. a descendant of Bani who had a foreign wife and put her away

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

    1. maybe the same as 17

Uzzi = "strong"

1. a Levite, son of Bukki and father of Zerahiah in the line of the high priest although apparently never high priest himself

2. son of Tola and grandson of Issachar

3. a Benjamite, son of Bela and head of a family of Benjamin

4. son of Michri and father of Elah and an ancestor of a family of returned exiles settling in Jerusalem. Maybe same as 3

5. a Levite, son of Bani, and an overseer of the Levites in Jerusalem in the time of Nehemiah

6. a priest, chief of the father's house of Jedaiah, in the time of Joiakim the high priest

7. one of the priests who helped Ezra in the dedication of the wall of Jerusalem. Maybe same as 6

Reuel or Raguel = "friend of God"

1. a son of Esau by his wife Bashemath, the sister of Ishmael

2. the father-in-law of Moses

   1. also 'Jethro'

3. father of Eliasaph, the leader of the tribe of Gad at the time of the census at Sinai

4. a Benjamite, ancestor of Elah

Shephatiah = "Jehovah has judged"

1. a son of David by Abital; David's 5th son

2. head of a family of exiles returning from Babylon with Zerubbabel

3. another head of a family of exiles returning from Babylon with Zerubbabel

4. a Judaite, son of Mahalaleel and father of Amariah

5. a prince of Judah, son of Mattan and one of the counsellors who advised king Zedekiah of Judah to kill the prophet Jeremiah

6. the Haruphite, one of David's mighty warriors who joined him at Ziklag

7. son of Maachah and prince of the tribe of Simeon in the time of David

8. son of king Jehoshaphat of Judah and brother to his successor Jehoram