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

Asaph = "gatherer"

1. the father of Hezekiah's secretary

2. a son of Berechiah, chief Levite musician under David

3. a Persian officer over the royal forest

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

Jeiel or Jehiel = "God sweeps away"

1. one of the sons of Adonikam who returned from exile with Ezra

2. a chief Reubenite of the house of Joel

3. a Merarite Levite and a gatekeeper to the tabernacle who also played the harp and psaltery in the service before the ark

4. one of the chiefs of the Levites in the time of king Josiah

5. one of the sons of Nebo who took a foreign wife in the time of Ezra

6. a man of Gibeon and ancestor of king Saul

7. one of the sons of Hotham the Aroerite and one of David's mighty warriors

8. the scribe of king Uzziah who kept the account of the king's irregular predatory warriors

9. a Gershonite Levite of the sons of Elizaphan

10. a Gershonite Levite of the sons of Asaph and forefather of Jahaziel in the time of king Jehoshaphat

from, out of, on account of, off, on the side of, since, above, than, so that not, more than

1. from (expressing separation), off, on the side of

2. out of

   1. (with verbs of proceeding, removing, expelling)

   2. (of material from which something is made)

   3. (of source or origin)

3. out of, some of, from (partitively)

4. from, since, after (of time)

5. than, more than (in comparison)

6. from...even to, both...and, either...or

7. than, more than, too much for (in comparisons)

8. from, on account of, through, because (with infinitive)

   conjunction

that

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

Shimri = "vigilant"

1. a Simeonite, son of Shemaiah and father of Jedaiah

2. father of Jediael, one of David's mighty warriors

3. a Merarite Levite, son of Hosah

4. a Kohathite Levite of the sons of Elizaphan