Elpalet or Eliphalet or Eliphelet = "God is deliverance"

1. David's youngest son

2. one of David's mighty warriors

3. a Benjamite descendant of Jonathan

4. a leader of the clan of Adonikam

5. one of the line of Hashum

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

Zabad = "he endows"

1. a descendant of Judah; son of Nathan, grandson of Attai, great grandson of Ahlai Sheshan's daughter

2. son of Tahath

3. one of David's mighty warriors (could be the same as 1 above)

4. son of Shimeath, an Ammonitess; a conspirator against and, with Jehozabad, the murderer of Joash (also called 'Jozachar')

5. one of the sons of Zattu, who put away his foreign wife at the command of Ezra

6. one of the descendants of Hashum, who, in the time of Ezra, had a foreign wife

7. one of the sons of Nebo, who had a foreign wife in the time of Ezra

Hashum = "rich"

1. head of a family of 223 exiles returning with Zerubbabel

2. one of the priests or Levites who stood on Ezra's left while he read the law

Jeremai = "my exaltations"

1. a descendant of Hashum who took a foreign wife in the time of Ezra and was compelled to put her away

Manasseh = "causing to forget"

1. the eldest son of Joseph and progenitor of the tribe of Manasseh

   1. the tribe descended from Manasseh

   2. the territory occupied by the tribe of Manasseh

2. son of king Hezekiah of Judah and himself king of Judah; he was the immediate and direct cause for the exile

3. a descendant of Pahath-moab who put away a foreign wife in the time of Ezra

4. a descendant of Hashum who put away a foreign wife in the time of Ezra

Mattenai = "gift of Jehovah"

1. a priest, son of Joiarib, in the time of Joiakim

2. an Israelite who had and put away his foreign wife in the time of Ezra

3. another Israelite who had and put away his foreign wife in the time of Ezra

Mattathah = "gift of Jehovah"

1. son of Hashum who took and put away his foreign wife in the time of Ezra

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'