אֶלְעָזָר
ʼElʻâzâr · el-aw-zawr'
Elazar, the name of seven Israelites
Lexicon
Derivation: from H410 (אֵל) and H5826 (עָזַר); God (is) helper;
Elazar, the name of seven Israelites
Definition from Strong's Exhaustive Concordance (1890). Wording is Strong's own, including his etymological notes, which are not separate meanings.
KJV renderings: Eleazar.
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
- 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 › to see and know › to cut, to sustain › the head, the highest
Strength, the leader of authority, the one who leads that works to see and know that works to cut, to sustain of the head, the highest.
Interpretive, not lexical. The dictionary sense of אֶלְעָזָר 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
72 occurrences · 72 OT · 0 NT · 25 distinct forms
KJV renderings of this word, by how often each one is used.
- and eleazar20 · 28%
- eleazar16 · 22%
- of eleazar14 · 19%
- and unto eleazar3 · 4%
- unto eleazar3 · 4%
- them upon eleazar2 · 3%
- which eleazar2 · 3%
- him was eleazar2 · 3%
- with eleazar1 · 1%
- her unto eleazar1 · 1%
- thou, and eleazar1 · 1%
- it unto eleazar1 · 1%
- and to eleazar1 · 1%
- unto you: eleazar1 · 1%
- therefore eleazar1 · 1%
- for eleazar1 · 1%
- came eleazar1 · 1%
- and with him was eleazar1 · 1%
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.