עֵלִי
ʻÊlîy · ay-lee'
Eli, an Israelite highpriest
Lexicon
Derivation: from H5927 (עָלָה); lofty;
Eli, an Israelite highpriest
Definition from Strong's Exhaustive Concordance (1890). Wording is Strong's own, including his etymological notes, which are not separate meanings.
KJV renderings: Eli.
Letters
- עAyin70
Picture: an eye
- Concrete
- eye · spring of water
- Extended
- to see · to know · experience · to watch
- 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
Possible cultural reading (auto-composed)
to see and know › authority, the one who leads › the hand that works
To see and know of authority, the one who leads of the hand that works.
Interpretive, not lexical. The dictionary sense of עֵלִי 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
33 occurrences · 33 OT · 0 NT · 15 distinct forms
KJV renderings of this word, by how often each one is used.
- of eli7 · 21%
- eli4 · 12%
- now eli3 · 9%
- to eli3 · 9%
- unto eli3 · 9%
- therefore eli2 · 6%
- and eli2 · 6%
- then eli2 · 6%
- that eli1 · 3%
- when eli1 · 3%
- me. and eli1 · 3%
- against eli1 · 3%
- of eli's1 · 3%
- lo, eli1 · 3%
- and when eli1 · 3%
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.