Eliezer = "God is help"

1. Abraham's Damascene servant

2. a son of Moses

3. a Benjamite

4. a priest who helped move the ark

5. a Reubenite

6. a prophet who spoke to Jehoshaphat

7. a Levite chief

8. son of Harim

9. priest with foreign wife

he, she, it

1. himself (with emphasis)

2. resuming subj with emphasis

3. (with minimum emphasis following predicate)

4. (anticipating subj)

5. (emphasising predicate)

6. that, it (neuter)

   demonstrative pronoun

that (with article)

Judah = "praised"

1. the son of Jacob by Leah

2. the tribe descended from Judah the son of Jacob

3. the territory occupied by the tribe of Judah

4. the kingdom comprised of the tribes of Judah and Benjamin which occupied the southern part of Canaan after the nation split upon the death of Solomon

5. a Levite in Ezra's time

6. an overseer of Jerusalem in the time of Nehemiah

7. a Levite musician in the time of Nehemiah

8. a priest in the time of Nehemiah

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

Levite = see Levi "joined to"

1. the descendants of Levi, the 3rd son of Jacob by Leah

   1. the tribe descended from Levi specially set aside by God for His service

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

Pethahiah = "freed by Jehovah"

1. a priest, in charge of the 19th course, in the time of David

2. a Levite and returning exile who had married a foreign wife; probably the same as 3

3. a Levite who helped lead in the confession of the people in the time of Ezra; probably the same as 2

4. son of Meshezabeel, descendant of Zerah the son of Judah; deputy of the king in all matters concerning the people

Kelaiah = "Jehovah has dishonoured"

1. a Levite who had a foreign wife in the time of Ezra

   1. also 'Kelita'

Kelita = "crippled"

1. a Levite who had a foreign wife in the time of Ezra

   1. also 'Kelaiah'

Shimei or Shimhi or Shimi or Shimea = "renowned"

1. a Benjamite, son of Gera of the house of Saul in the time of David

2. a Benjamite, son of Elah and commissariat officer in the time of Solomon

3. the Ramathite in charge of the vineyards of David

4. son of Gershon and grandson of Levi

5. a Levite, son of Jeduthun and chief of the 10th division of singers in the time of David

6. a Levite of the sons of Heman who took part in the purification of the temple in the time of king Hezekiah of Judah

7. a Levite, brother of Cononiah in charge of receiving the tithes and offerings in the reign of king Hezekiah of Judah

8. a Levite who had a foreign wife in the time of Ezra

9. a Judaite, son of Pedaiah and brother of Zerubbabel

10. a Simeonite, son of Zacchur

11. a Reubenite, son of Gog and father of Micah

12. one of the sons of Hashum who had a foreign wife in the time of Ezra

13. one of the sons of Bani who had a foreign wife in the time of Ezra

14. a Benjamite, son of Kish, father of Jair, and grandfather of Mordecai in the time of Esther

15. a Levite, son of Jahath, grandson of Gershon, and great grandson of Levi

16. Benjamite, father of Adaiah, Beraiah, and Shimrath. Spelled 'Shimhi'