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the Week of Proper 4 / Ordinary 9

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Bible Lexicons

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Strong's #494 - אֶלְנָתָן

Transliteration

ʼElnâthân

Phonetics

el-naw-thawn'

Root Word (Etymology)

from (H410) and (H5414)

Parts of Speech

proper masculine noun

TWOT

None

Definition

Brown-Driver-Briggs
Strong

Brown-Driver-Briggs'

Elnathan = “God has given”

1) king Jehoiachin’s maternal grandfather

2) three chief men in Ezra’s time

3) son of Achbor, a military commander under Jehoiakim

Frequency Lists

Book
Word

Verse Results

KJV (7)

2 Kings 1

Ezra 3

Jeremiah 3

NAS (7)

2 Kings 1

Ezra 3

Jeremiah 3

HCS (7)

2 Kings 1

Ezra 3

Jeremiah 3

BSB (7)

2 Kings 1

Ezra 3

Jeremiah 3

ESV (8)

2 Kings 2

Ezra 3

Jeremiah 3

WEB (7)

2 Kings 1

Ezra 3

Jeremiah 3

Brown-Driver-Briggs Expanded Definition

אֶלְנָתָן ( God has given, compare נְתַנְאֵל, & Assyrian Ilu-iddin Dl^{Proverbs 207, Phoenician} בעליתן, יתנבעל, Palmyrene עתנתן, והבלת, Vog^{Pal 30 & p. 31 f}, Nabataean והבאל, קסנתן Eut^{Nab 12,1}, Sabean והבאל, אלוהב DHM^{ZMG 1883,15. 361. 388} CIS^{iv.1,1.2.6, Theodore, Diodate}).

a. the grandfather of Jehoiakim 2 Kings 24:8; compare Jeremiah 26:22; Jeremiah 36:12,25 (?).

b. Levites of the time of Ezra Ezra 8:16 (3t. in verse).

Gesenius' Hebrew and Chaldee Definition

אֶלְנָתָן (“whom God gave,” compare יוֹנָתָן, as if Theodorus, Adeodatus), [Elnathan], pr.n.m.

(1) the grandfather of king Jehoiachin, 2 Kings 24:8, perhaps the same who is mentioned Jeremiah 26:22, 36:12, 25 Jeremiah 36:25.

(2) three Levites in the time of Ezra, Ezra 8:16.

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List of Word Forms

אֶלְנָתָ֖ן אֶלְנָתָ֧ן אֶלְנָתָ֨ן אלנתן וְאֶלְנָתָ֨ן וּלְאֶלְנָתָ֖ן וּלְאֶלְנָתָ֧ן וּלְאֶלְנָתָ֨ן ואלנתן ולאלנתן ’el·nā·ṯān ’elnāṯān elnaTan ū·lə·’el·nā·ṯān ūlə’elnāṯān uleelnaTan veelnaTan wə’elnāṯān wə·’el·nā·ṯān