Ahithophel = "my brother is foolish (folly)"

1. a counsellor of David, grandfather of Bathsheba (cf 2Sa 11:3, 23:34), who joined Absalom in revolt against David, and committed suicide when Absalom did not heed his counsel

Ahasbai = "brother of my encompassers"

1. father of Eliphelet, one of David's heroes

Eliam = "God of the people" or "God is kinsman"

1. Bathsheba's father

2. a Gilonite warrior of David

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

Gilonite = "gentilic of preceding"

1. an inhabitant of Giloh

Maachathite = "pressure (literally she has pressed)"

1. used of one of David's mighty warriors

2. used of an associate of Ishmael

   collective

3. a people dwelling in Transjordan, probably descendants of Maachah