אֶלְעָזָרʼElʻâzâr
proper name, masculine: God has helped
Pronunciation: el-aw-zawr' · Hebrew/Aramaic (Old Testament) · H499
Meanings
a. Eleazar the priest (Exodus 6:23; Judges 20:28; 1 Chronicles 5:29)
b. son of Abinadab (1 Samuel 7:1)
c. one of David's heroes (2 Samuel 23:9; 1 Chronicles 11:12; 1 Chronicles 27:4)
d. a Levite (1 Chronicles 23:21; 1 Chronicles 23:22; 1 Chronicles 24:28)
e. priest of the time of Ezra (Ezra 8:33; Nehemiah 12:42)
f. one of the line of Parosh (Ezra 10:25)
Same root
Where it appears
Appears 72 times in the Bible.
- Exodus 6:23 Aaron married Elisheba, the daughter of Amminadab and sister of Nahshon, and she gave birth to his sons, Nadab, Abihu, Eleazar, and Ithamar.
- Exodus 6:25 Eleazar son of Aaron married one of the daughters of Putiel, and she gave birth to his son, Phinehas. These are the ancestors of the Levite families, listed according to their clans.
- Exodus 28:1 “Call for your brother, Aaron, and his sons, Nadab, Abihu, Eleazar, and Ithamar. Set them apart from the rest of the people of Israel so they may minister to me and be my priests.
- Leviticus 10:6 Then Moses said to Aaron and his sons Eleazar and Ithamar, “Do not show grief by leaving your hair uncombed or by tearing your clothes. If you do, you will die, and the Lord’s anger will strike the whole community of Israel. However, the rest of the Israelites, your relatives, may mourn because of the Lord’s fiery destruction of Nadab and Abihu.
- Leviticus 10:12 Then Moses said to Aaron and his remaining sons, Eleazar and Ithamar, “Take what is left of the grain offering after a portion has been presented as a special gift to the Lord, and eat it beside the altar. Make sure it contains no yeast, for it is most holy.
- Leviticus 10:16 Moses then asked them what had happened to the goat of the sin offering. When he discovered it had been burned up, he became very angry with Eleazar and Ithamar, Aaron’s remaining sons.
See every passage
- Exodus 6:23, 6:25, 28:1
- Leviticus 10:6, 10:12, 10:16
- Numbers 3:2, 3:4, 3:32, 4:16, 16:37, 16:39, 19:3, 19:4, 20:25, 20:26, 20:28, 25:7, 25:11, 26:1, 26:3, 26:60, 26:63, 27:2, 27:19, 27:21, 27:22, 31:6, 31:12, 31:13, 31:21, 31:26, 31:29, 31:31, 31:41, 31:51, 31:54, 32:2, 32:28, 34:17
- Deuteronomy 10:6
- Joshua 14:1, 17:4, 19:51, 21:1, 22:13, 22:31, 22:32, 24:33
- Judges 20:28
- 1 Samuel 7:1
- 2 Samuel 23:9
- 1 Chronicles 6:3, 6:4, 6:50, 9:20, 11:12, 23:21, 23:22, 24:1, 24:2, 24:3, 24:4, 24:5, 24:6, 24:28
- Ezra 7:5, 8:33, 10:25
- Nehemiah 12:42
Source: Brown, Driver and Briggs, Hebrew and English Lexicon of the Old Testament (1906), public domain; markup by unfoldingWord, CC BY (github.com/unfoldingWord/Brown-Driver-Briggs-Enhanced).