Hebrew word · H475
אֶלְיָשִׁיב
'elyashiv
Eliashib
Appears 17 times in 15 verses of the Hebrew Old Testament. ·
What it means
A man of the tribe of Levi living at the time of Exile and Return, first mentioned at Neh.12.10;
son of: Joiakim (H3113);
father of: Joiada (H3111H)
§ Eliashib = "God restores"
1) a priest in David's reign
2) a descendant of David
3) a high priest in Nehemiah's time
4) a temple singer with foreign wife
5) one of the line of Zattu
6) one of the line of Bani
Abridged from Brown, Driver and Briggs, A Hebrew and English Lexicon of the Old Testament (1906), via STEPBible.org (CC BY 4.0).
Where it appears
1 Chronicles · 2
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1 Chronicles 3:24 וְאֶלְיָשִׁ֡יב and Eliashib
The sons of Elioenai: Hodaviah, Eliashib, Pelaiah, Akkub, Johanan, Delaiah, and Anani—seven in all.
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1 Chronicles 24:12 לְאֶלְיָשִׁיב֙ to Eliashib
the eleventh to Eliashib, the twelfth to Jakim,
Ezra · 4
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Ezra 10:6 אֶלְיָשִׁ֑יב Eliashib
Then Ezra withdrew from before the house of God and walked to the chamber of Jehohanan son of Eliashib. And while he stayed there, he ate no food and drank no water, because he was mourning over the unfaithfulness of the exiles.
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Ezra 10:24 אֶלְיָשִׁ֑יב Eliashib
From the singers: Eliashib. From the gatekeepers: Shallum, Telem, and Uri.
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Ezra 10:27 אֶלְיָשִׁיב֙ Eliashib
From the descendants of Zattu: Elioenai, Eliashib, Mattaniah, Jeremoth, Zabad, and Aziza.
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Ezra 10:36 אֶלְיָשִֽׁיב׃ Eliashib
Vaniah, Meremoth, Eliashib,
Nehemiah · 11
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Nehemiah 3:1 אֶלְיָשִׁיב֩ Eliashib
At the Sheep Gate, Eliashib the high priest and his fellow priests began rebuilding. They dedicated it and installed its doors. After building as far as the Tower of the Hundred and the Tower of Hananel, they dedicated the wall.
Here: The name means 'God restores' or 'God brings back'. He is the high priest of the time, grandson of Jeshua, who returned from exile (Nehemiah 12:10).
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Nehemiah 3:20 אֶלְיָשִׁ֔יב Eliashib
Next to him, Baruch son of Zabbai diligently repaired another section, from the angle to the doorway of the house of Eliashib the high priest.
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Nehemiah 3:21 אֶלְיָשִׁ֔יב אֶלְיָשִֽׁיב׃ ס Eliashib
Next to him, Meremoth son of Uriah, the son of Hakkoz, repaired another section, from the doorway of the house of Eliashib to the end of the house.
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Nehemiah 12:10 אֶלְיָשִׁ֔יב וְאֶלְיָשִׁ֖יב Eliashib, and Eliashib
Jeshua was the father of Joiakim, Joiakim was the father of Eliashib, Eliashib was the father of Joiada,
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Nehemiah 12:22 אֶלְיָשִׁ֜יב Eliashib
In the days of Eliashib, Joiada, Johanan, and Jaddua, during the reign of Darius the Persian, the heads of the families of the Levites and priests were recorded.
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Nehemiah 12:23 אֶלְיָשִֽׁיב׃ Eliashib
As for the descendants of Levi, the family heads up to the days of Johanan son of Eliashib were recorded in the Book of the Chronicles.
Here: "God restores." This is the high priest of Nehemiah's own time (Neh 3:1; 13:4, 28).
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Nehemiah 13:4 אֶלְיָשִׁיב֙ Eliashib
Now before this, Eliashib the priest, a relative of Tobiah, had been put in charge of the storerooms of the house of our God
Here: A personal name meaning roughly "God restores" or "God brings back". The high priest of Nehemiah's day had this name (3:1; 12:10; 13:28). Whether this is the same man is debated.
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Nehemiah 13:7 אֶלְיָשִׁיב֙ Eliashib
to return to Jerusalem. Then I discovered the evil that Eliashib had done on behalf of Tobiah by providing him a room in the courts of the house of God.
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Nehemiah 13:28 אֶלְיָשִׁיב֙ Eliashib
Even one of the sons of Jehoiada son of Eliashib the high priest had become a son-in-law to Sanballat the Horonite. Therefore I drove him away from me.
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