אֱלִיעֶזֶר
ʼĔlîyʻezer · el-ee-eh'-zer
Eliezer, the name of a Damascene and of ten Israelites
Lexicon
Derivation: from H410 (אֵל) and H5828 (עֵזֶר); God of help;
Eliezer, the name of a Damascene and of ten Israelites
Definition from Strong's Exhaustive Concordance (1890). Wording is Strong's own, including his etymological notes, which are not separate meanings.
KJV renderings: Eliezer.
Letters
- אAlef1
Picture: ox head
- Concrete
- ox · bull · cattle
- Extended
- strength · leader · first · the one in front
- לLamed30
Picture: shepherd's staff or goad
- Concrete
- staff · goad · yoke · cattle prod
- Extended
- authority · to lead · to teach · to bind · toward
- יYod10
Picture: arm and closed hand
- Concrete
- hand · arm · work
- Extended
- a deed · to make · to work · to throw or worship
- עAyin70
Picture: an eye
- Concrete
- eye · spring of water
- Extended
- to see · to know · experience · to watch
- זZayin7
Picture: a weapon, mattock or sword
- Concrete
- weapon · cutting tool · plough
- Extended
- to cut · to harvest · to sustain by cutting · food
- רResh200
Picture: a human head
- Concrete
- head · face · person
- Extended
- first · top · beginning · chief · the highest
Possible cultural reading (auto-composed)
strength, the leader › authority, the one who leads › the hand that works › to see and know › to cut, to sustain › the head, the highest
Strength, the leader of authority, the one who leads of the hand that works that works to see and know that works to cut, to sustain of the head, the highest.
Interpretive, not lexical. The dictionary sense of אֱלִיעֶזֶר above is the attested meaning; this pictographic reading is a tradition about how the sign-shapes may have been heard. Both can be held at once, they are answering different questions.
Usage
14 occurrences · 14 OT · 0 NT · 13 distinct forms
KJV renderings of this word, by how often each one is used.
- and eliezer6 · 43%
- eliezer2 · 14%
- was eliezer2 · 14%
- of eliezer1 · 7%
- by eliezer1 · 7%
- then eliezer1 · 7%
- i for eliezer1 · 7%
Where it is used, by book.
Inflected forms found in the text.
Counts are computed from the tagged Hebrew and Greek text aligned to the King James Version, not from an estimate.