Elioenai or Elihoenai = "unto Jehovah are my eyes"

1. a Korahite temple doorkeeper, son of Meshelemiah

2. two men with foreign wife during the exile; one a priest

3. a son of Neariah

4. a Simeonite

5. a Benjamite, son of Becher

Elasah or Eleasah = "God has made"

1. a descendant of Judah, son of Helez

2. a priest of Pashur's line with a foreign wife during Ezra's time

3. Shaphan's son, Zedekiah's servant

4. a descendant of Benjamin, son of Rapha, father of Azel

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

Jozabad or Josabad = "Jehovah has endowed"

1. a Korhite Levite, 2nd son of Obededom, and one of the porters of the temple and of the storehouse there in the time of David

2. one of David's mighty warriors

3. another of David's mighty warriors

4. four other priests or Levites

Ishmael = "God will hear"

1. son of Abraham and Sarah's handmaid Hagar and the progenitor of the Arabian peoples

2. son of Nethaniah and the murderer of Gedaliah

3. a Benjamite, one of the sons of Azel a descendant of Saul through Meribbaal or Mephibosheth

4. a Judaite, father of Zebadiah

5. a Judaite, son of Johanan and one of the captains who aided Jehoiada in restoring Joash to the throne

6. a priest of the family of Pashur with a foreign wife whom he was forced to put away by Ezra

Maaseiah = "work of Jehovah"

1. a descendant of Jeshua who had taken a foreign wife in the time of Ezra

2. a priest of the sons of Harim who had taken a foreign wife in the time of Ezra

3. a priest of the sons of Pashur who had taken a foreign wife in the time of Ezra

4. a descendant of Pahath-moab who had taken a foreign wife in the time of Ezra

5. father of Azariah

6. one who stood on the right hand of Ezra when he read the law to the people

7. a Levite who assisted when Ezra read the law to the people

8. one of the heads of the people whose descendants signed the covenant with Nehemiah

9. a Benjamite ancestor of Sallu

10. a priest who took part in the musical service at the dedication of the wall of Jerusalem under Ezra

11. another priest who took part in the musical service at the dedication of the wall of Jerusalem under Ezra

12. father of Zephaniah the prophet in the reign of Zedekiah

13. father of Zedekiah the false prophet in the time of Jeremiah

14. a Levite of the 2nd rank who David appointed to sound with psalteries on Alamoth

15. son of Adaiah and one of the captains of hundreds in the reign of king Joash of Judah

16. an officer of high rank in the reign of king Uzziah

17. son of king Ahaz of Judah who was killed by Zichri in the invasion of Judah by king Pekah of Israel

18. governor of Jerusalem in the reign of Josiah

19. son of Shallum and a Levite of high rand in the reign of king Jehoiakim of Judah

20. ancestor of Baruch and Seraiah and a priest

Nethaneel = "given of God"

1. son of Zuar and a chief of the tribe of Issachar at the exodus

2. the 4th son of Jesse and a brother of David

3. a priest in the reign of David who blew the trumpet before the ark when it was brought from the house of Obed-edom

4. a representative of the priestly family of Jedaiah in the time of Joiakim

5. a priest of the family of Pashur who had a foreign wife in the time of Ezra

6. a Levite, father of Shemaiah the scribe in the reign of David

7. a Levite, son of Obed-edom

8. a chief of the Levites in the reign of king Josiah of Judah

9. a prince of Judah in the reign of king Jehoshaphat of Judah who was sent by the king to teach in the cities of the kingdom

10. a Levite of the sons of Asaph who played a musical instrument at the dedication of the wall of Jerusalem

    1. perhaps the same as 5

Pashur = "freedom"

1. a priest, son of Malchiah and one of the chief princes in the reign of king Zedekiah of Judah

2. a priest, son of Immer, chief governor of the temple, and the one who struck and then put the prophet Jeremiah into the stocks in the reign of king Jehoiakim of Judah

3. son of Malchijah, father of Zechariah, and ancestor of Adaiah who did the work of the temple in the time of Nehemiah. Probably same as 1

4. father of Gedaliah; probably the same as 1

5. head of a family of returned exiles