Eliashib = "God restores"

1. a priest in David's reign

2. a descendant of David

3. a high priest in Nehemiah's time

4. a temple singer with foreign wife

5. one of the line of Zattu

6. one of the line of Bani

sign of the definite direct object, not translated in English but generally preceding and indicating the accusative

Joiada or Jehoiada = "Jehovah knows"

1. son of Paseah, who assisted to repair the old gate of Jerusalem

2. son of the high priest Eliashib in the time of Nehemiah

Joiakim or Jehoiakim = "Jehovah raises up"

1. a priest and son of Jeshua the high priest

to bear, bring forth, beget, gender, travail

1. (Qal)

   1. to bear, bring forth

      1. of child birth

      2. of distress (simile)

      3. of wicked (behaviour)

   2. to beget

2. (Niphal) to be born

3. (Piel)

   1. to cause or help to bring forth

   2. to assist or tend as a midwife

   3. midwife (participle)

4. (Pual) to be born

5. (Hiphil)

   1. to beget (a child)

   2. to bear (fig. - of wicked bringing forth iniquity)

6. (Hophal) day of birth, birthday (infinitive)

7. (Hithpael) to declare one's birth (pedigree)

Jeshua = "he is saved"

1. son of Nun of the tribe of Ephraim and successor to Moses as the leader of the children of Israel; led the conquest of Canaan

2. son of Jehozadak and high priest after the restoration

3. a priest in the time of David who had charge of the 9th course

4. a Levite in the reign of Hezekiah

5. head of a Levitical house which returned from captivity in Babylon

6. father of a builder of the wall of Jerusalem in the time of Nehemiah

   proper locative noun

7. a town in southern Judah reinhabited by the people of Judah after the return from captivity