Eleazar = "God has helped"

1. the high priest son of Aaron

2. Abinadab's son who cared for the ark

3. the priest who rebuilt and dedicated the restored walls of Jerusalem in time of Ezra

4. one of David's mighty warriors

5. a Levite

6. one of the line of Parosh

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

Benaiah = "Jehovah has built" or "Yahweh has built up"

1. one of David's mighty warriors, son of Jehoiada the chief priest, a Levite, set by David over his bodyguard, later having remained faithful to Solomon during Adonijah's attempt on the crown, was raised into the place of Joab as commander-in-chief of the army

2. the Pirathonite, an Ephraimite, one of David's thirty mighty warriors, and the captain of the eleventh monthly course

3. a Simeonite, a prince of the families of Simeon

4. a Levite in the time of David who played with a psaltery on Alamoth

5. a priest in the time of David, appointed to blow the trumpet before the ark

6. a Levite of the sons of Asaph

7. a Levite in the time of Hezekiah

8. Four Israelites in the time of Ezra who had taken strange wives

9. the father of Pelatiah

Jeziah = "Jehovah sprinkles"

1. a descendant of Parosh who took a foreign wife in the time of Ezra

Israel = "God prevails"

1. the second name for Jacob given to him by God after his wrestling with the angel at Peniel

2. the name of the descendants and the nation of the descendants of Jacob

   1. the name of the nation until the death of Solomon and the split

   2. the name used and given to the northern kingdom consisting of the 10 tribes under Jeroboam; the southern kingdom was known as Judah

   3. the name of the nation after the return from exile

Mijamin = "from the right hand"

1. chief of the 6th course of priests established by David

2. a priest who signed the covenant with Nehemiah

3. a priest who went up with Zerubbabel

4. a priest who took a foreign wife in the time of Ezra

Malchijah or Malchiah = "my king is Jehovah"

1. the father of Pashur in the time of Jeremiah

2. the son of Hammelech into whose dungeon Jeremiah was cast

3. the head of the 5th course of priests in the time of David

4. one of the priests who was at the reading of the law by Ezra, sealed the covenant with Nehemiah, and was at the dedication of the wall with Nehemiah

5. a Levite ancestor of Asaph and descendant of Levi through Gershon

6. son of Parosh who put away a foreign wife in the time of Ezra

7. son of Harim who put away a foreign wife and helped repair the wall and the Tower of Ovens in the time of Ezra and Nehemiah

8. son of Rechab, leader of the district of Beth Haccerem, who helped repair the Refuse Gate in the time of Nehemiah

9. a goldsmith who helped repair the wall in the time of Nehemiah

Parosh or Pharosh = "flea"

1. ancestor of a family who returned from exile with Zerubbabel and a 2nd group who returned with Ezra

2. a leader of the people who signed the covenant with Nehemiah

Ramiah = "Jehovah has loosened"

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