אֱלִיאֵל
Eliel
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Full lexicon entry — Brown-Driver-Briggs (BDB)
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Where this word appears
Grammar key — what these labels mean
Part of speech
- Noun
- A naming word — a person, place, thing, or idea.
Noun type
- Proper
- A name of a specific person, place, or people (e.g. Abraham, Zion, Israel).
Every verse where H447 appears — 10 distinct verses across 2 books. Click any verse to open its interlinear word-by-word view. Verse text shown in the World English Bible for context — . Each verse’s Hebrew form is shown with its reference; the English is not keyword-highlighted, since the data carries no word-level English alignment. Use “Compare translations” on any verse to read it across multiple English versions. This concordance covers the Hebrew Bible; Septuagint (Greek Old Testament) occurrences are not indexed here.
1 Chronicles 9 verses
- 1 Chronicles 5:24 וֶ/אֱלִיאֵ֡ל conj + n Proper These were the heads of their fathers' houses: even Epher, and Ishi, and Eliel, and Azriel, and Jeremiah, and Hodaviah, and Jahdiel, mighty men of valor, famous men, heads of their fathers' houses.
- 1 Chronicles 6:34 אֱלִיאֵ֖ל n Proper the son of Elkanah, the son of Jeroham, the son of Eliel, the son of Toah,
- 1 Chronicles 8:20 וֶ/אֱלִיאֵֽל conj + n Proper and Elienai, and Zillethai, and Eliel,
- 1 Chronicles 8:22 וֶ/אֱלִיאֵֽל conj + n Proper and Ishpan, and Eber, and Eliel,
- 1 Chronicles 11:46 אֱלִיאֵל֙ n Proper Eliel the Mahavite, and Jeribai, and Joshaviah, the sons of Elnaam, and Ithmah the Moabite,
- 1 Chronicles 11:47 אֱלִיאֵ֣ל n Proper Eliel, and Obed, and Jaasiel the Mezobaite.
- 1 Chronicles 12:11 אֱלִיאֵ֖ל n Proper Attai the sixth, Eliel the seventh,
- 1 Chronicles 15:9 אֱלִיאֵ֥ל n Proper of the sons of Hebron, Eliel the chief, and his brothers eighty;
- 1 Chronicles 15:11 וֶ/אֱלִיאֵ֖ל conj + n Proper David called for Zadok and Abiathar the priests, and for the Levites, for Uriel, Asaiah, and Joel, Shemaiah, and Eliel, and Amminadab,
2 Chronicles 1 verse
About this entry
At a glance — auto-summarized from this page’s data, not written by a person. Every figure links to its source below. This summary describes the numbers; it doesn’t interpret them.
אליאל (ʼĔlîyʼêl) is a Hebrew name most often rendered “Eliel.” It clusters heavily in 1 Chronicles, which alone accounts for 90% of its uses. It turns up in 10 verses across 2 books, an uncommon footprint. It first appears in 1 Chronicles 5:24. Dig into 10-verse concordance and the renderings breakdown below.
Gloss history
Strong's 1890 vs modern scholarship
About this word
Strong's H447 catalogs a Hebrew word from the Hebrew Old Testament.
These counts are not copied from any lexicon or concordance. They are computed here, from the morphology-tagged Hebrew Old Testament. What Lemma adds →
- 10
- distinct verses
- The word appears in 10 distinct verses.
- 2 / 39
- OT books
- The word appears in 2 of 39 Old Testament books.
- #2,342
- by frequency
- Top 2500 most frequent Hebrew words (rank 2,342 of 8,640 Hebrew words by occurrence).
View all 10 occurrences in the concordance →
Most concentrated in
- 1 Chronicles 9 verses 90%
- 2 Chronicles 1 verse 10%
By section of the Old Testament
By traditional corpus
Conventional, traditional groupings — biblical authorship is debated, so this is a traditional corpus grouping, not an authorship claim. Each share is this word’s portion of its verses in that division of the Hebrew canon. Each figure is a share of the word’s 10 distinct verses.
- Writings (Ketuvim) 10 verses · 100%
How translations render this word
Counts come from each version’s own published word-to-Strong’s tagging or interlinear alignment — an approximate guide to how each version renders this word, not a word-level alignment the data otherwise carries. Because each total is that version’s own tagged count, the per-version totals vary from one another and need not match the appearance or distinct-verse counts above. These counts may also differ from a printed concordance because Lemma counts each distinctly tagged rendering and does not collapse phrase taggings into a single head-word total. This is a fixed set of word-tagged versions (KJV, ASV, BSB, ULT) and does not change with the reading translation you choose elsewhere. Each version’s license is shown beside its name below (and on Sources).
- King James Version: Eliel 10×
- American Standard Version: Eliel 10×
- Berean Standard Bible: Eliel 10×
- unfoldingWord Literal Text: Eliel 10×
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American Standard Version Public Domain
Renders H447 across 10 tagged occurrences — most commonly:
Berean Standard Bible Public Domain
Renders H447 across 10 tagged occurrences — most commonly:
unfoldingWord Literal Text CC BY-SA 4.0
Renders H447 across 10 tagged occurrences — most commonly:
Senses in the full BDB
What do BDB’s symbols mean?
BDB uses these scholarly abbreviations:
| Symbol | Meaning |
|---|---|
| 𝔊 | the Septuagint (the ancient Greek translation, LXX) |
| 𝔙 | the Vulgate (the Latin translation) |
| 𝔖 | the Syriac version (the Peshitta) |
| 𝔗 | the Targum (the Aramaic translation) |
| ψ | the Psalms |
| √ | root (the underlying root or stem) |
| ‖ | parallel passage (a synonymous or contrasted parallel) |
| † | the dagger: every passage where the word occurs is cited |
The 6 senses and sub-senses the full Brown-Driver-Briggs lexicon distinguishes for this word, in lexicon order (not ranked by frequency), with BDB’s own verbatim wording and sub-sense lettering. Shown in Hebrew script with BDB’s own scholarly abbreviations. The condensed entry is in the Lexicon Entry tab. See also the Forms in the corpus table below.
- a. two or three of David’s chiefs 1 Ch 11:46, 47; 12:11. e.g. 1 Chronicles 11:46
- b. chief of Manasseh 1 Ch 5:24. e.g. 1 Chronicles 5:24
- c. two chiefs of Benjamin 1 Ch 8:20, 22. e.g. 1 Chronicles 8:20
- d. chief of the Hebronites 1 Ch 15:9, 11. e.g. 1 Chronicles 15:9
- e. a chief Kohathite 1 Ch 6:19 = אֱלִיאָב v 12 cf. אֱלִיהוּ 1 S 1:1. e.g. 1 Chronicles 6:19
- f. a Levite 2 Ch 31:13. e.g. 2 Chronicles 31:13
Senses from the full Brown-Driver-Briggs lexicon (Brown, Driver, Briggs; Oxford 1906 — public domain), digitized via Sefaria, supplemented by the OpenScriptures HebrewLexicon (CC BY 4.0). Full attribution on Sources.
Word origin
n.pr.m. (Ēl is God, or my God is God) only Ch.
— Brown-Driver-Briggs (Oxford 1906, public domain), digitized via Sefaria, supplemented by the OpenScriptures HebrewLexicon (CC BY 4.0). See Sources.
Derived from אל (ʼêl) (H410) — God.
Forms in the corpus
The 8 distinct written forms H447 takes in the Hebrew Bible, most frequent first — each parse links to that state’s occurrences in the concordance. Hebrew forms include their vowel points and cantillation, so a single lemma takes many written forms.
| Form | Parsing | Example | Uses |
|---|---|---|---|
| אֱלִיאֵ֖ל | Noun, Proper | 1 Chronicles 6:34 | 2 |
| וֶ/אֱלִיאֵֽל | Noun, Proper | 1 Chronicles 8:20 | 2 |
| אֱלִיאֵ֣ל | Noun, Proper | 1 Chronicles 11:47 | 1 |
| אֱלִיאֵ֥ל | Noun, Proper | 1 Chronicles 15:9 | 1 |
| אֱלִיאֵל֙ | Noun, Proper | 1 Chronicles 11:46 | 1 |
| וֶ/אֱלִיאֵ֖ל | Noun, Proper | 1 Chronicles 15:11 | 1 |
| וֶ/אֱלִיאֵ֡ל | Noun, Proper | 1 Chronicles 5:24 | 1 |
| וֶ/אֱלִיאֵ֣ל | Noun, Proper | 2 Chronicles 31:13 | 1 |
Same root — word family
Other BDB entries built from the same root as H447, grouped by Strong’s listed origin. These share a root / origin per the lexicon — not necessarily a shared meaning. Each links to that word’s own entry.
Derives from
Shares the same root
Proper names from this root
People and places named from this root — a name, not an additional meaning of the word.
- אל אלהי ישראל ʼÊl ʼĕlôhêy Yisrâʼêl H415 Elelohe-israel
- אל ביתאל ʼÊl Bêyth-ʼÊl H416 El-beth-el
- אלדד ʼEldâd H419 Eldad
- אלדעה ʼEldâʻâh H420 Eldaah
- אלוה ʼĕlôwahh H433 God
- אלזבד ʼElzâbâd H443 Elzabad
- אלחנן ʼElchânân H445 Elhanan
- אליאב ʼĔlîyʼâb H446 Eliab
- אליאתה ʼĔlîyʼâthâh H448 Eliathah
- אלידע ʼElyâdâʻ H450 Eliada
- אליה ʼÊlîyâh H452 Elijah
- אליהו ʼĔlîyhûw H453 Elihu
- אליחבא ʼElyachbâʼ H455 Eliahba
- אליחרף ʼĔlîychôreph H456 Elihoreph
- אלימלך ʼĔlîymelek H458 Elimelech
- אליסף ʼElyâçâph H460 Eliasaph
- אליעזר ʼĔlîyʻezer H461 Eliezer
- אליעם ʼĔlîyʻâm H463 Eliam
- אליפז ʼĔlîyphaz H464 Eliphaz
- אליפל ʼĔlîyphâl H465 Eliphal
- אליפלהו ʼĔlîyphᵉlêhûw H466 Elipheleh
- אליפלט ʼĔlîypheleṭ H467 Eliphelet
- אליצור ʼĔlîytsûwr H468 Elizur
- אליצפן ʼĔlîytsâphân H469 Elizaphan
+24 more proper names from this root (not shown).
Compare all same-root words → Showing 4 of 51 — not the complete family. 49 of the same-root words are proper names (people or places). They share a root, not necessarily a meaning.
Bible dictionary
Public-domain dictionary articles matched to this entry by name (Eliel). A biblical name can be shared by more than one person or place, so an article may treat several.
Easton's Bible Dictionary · M. G. Easton, 1897
To whom God is might. (1.) A chief of Manasseh, on the east of Jordan (1 Chr. 5:24).
(2.) A Gadite who joined David in the hold at Ziklag (1 Chr. 12:11).
(3.) One of the overseers of the offerings in the reign of Hezekiah (2 Chr. 31:13).
Smith's Bible Dictionary · William Smith, 1863
(to whom God is strength).
+ One of the heads of the tribe of Manasseh on the east of Jordan. (1 Chronicles 5:24) + A forefather of Samuel the prophet. (1 Chronicles 6:34) + A chief man in the tribe of Benjamin. (1 Chronicles 8:20) + Also a Benjamite chief. (1 Chronicles 8:22) + One of the heroes of David's guard. (1 Chronicles 11:46) + Another of the same guard. (1 Chronicles 11:47) + One of the Gadite heroes who came across Jordan to David when he was in the wilderness of Judah hiding from Saul. (1 Chronicles 12:11) + A Kohathite Levite at the time of transportation of the ark from the house of Obed-edom to Jerusalem. (1 Chronicles 15:9,11) (B.C. 1043.) + A Levite in the time of Hezekiah; one of the overseers of the offerings made in the temple. (2 Chronicles 31:13) (B.C. 726.)
Hitchcock's Bible Names Dictionary · Roswell D. Hitchcock, 1869
God, my God
Classic public-domain reference works; full attribution on Sources.
Septuagint verse parallels
This word appears in 10 verses that also exist in the Greek Old Testament (Septuagint), out of the 10 Hebrew verses it occurs in. You can read those verses in Greek by switching the Old Testament edition to the Septuagint.
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