אֶלְיְהוֹעֵינַי
Elioenai
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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 H454 appears — 9 distinct verses across 3 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 5 verses
- 1 Chronicles 3:23 אֶלְיוֹעֵינַ֧י n Proper The sons of Neariah: Elioenai, and Hizkiah, and Azrikam, three.
- 1 Chronicles 3:24 אֶלְיוֹעֵינַ֗י n Proper The sons of Elioenai: Hodaviah, and Eliashib, and Pelaiah, and Akkub, and Johanan, and Delaiah, and Anani, seven.
- 1 Chronicles 4:36 וְ/אֶלְיוֹעֵינַ֡י conj + n Proper and Elioenai, and Jaakobah, and Jeshohaiah, and Asaiah, and Adiel, and Jesimiel, and Benaiah,
- 1 Chronicles 7:8 וְ/אֶלְיוֹעֵינַ֤י conj + n Proper The sons of Becher: Zemirah, and Joash, and Eliezer, and Elioenai, and Omri, and Jeremoth, and Abijah, and Anathoth, and Alemeth. All these were the sons of Becher.
- 1 Chronicles 26:3 אֶלְיְהוֹעֵינַ֖י n Proper Elam the fifth, Jehohanan the sixth, Eliehoenai the seventh.
Ezra 3 verses
- Ezra 8:4 אֶלְיְהֽוֹעֵינַ֖י n Proper Of the sons of Pahath-moab, Eliehoenai the son of Zerahiah; and with him two hundred males.
- Ezra 10:22 אֶלְיוֹעֵינַ֤י n Proper Of the sons of Pashhur: Elioenai, Maaseiah, Ishmael, Nethanel, Jozabad, and Elasah.
- Ezra 10:27 אֶלְיוֹעֵנַ֤י n Proper Of the sons of Zattu: Elioenai, Eliashib, Mattaniah, and Jeremoth, and Zabad, and Aziza.
Nehemiah 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.
At its core, אליהועיני (ʼElyᵉhôwʻêynay) means “Elioenai.” The word gravitates to 1 Chronicles (56%), then Ezra and Nehemiah. It appears 9 verses across 3 books of the Hebrew Bible, among its uncommon vocabulary. Scripture first uses it in 1 Chronicles 3:23. Each statement above links to its evidence; the full detail follows below.
Gloss history
Strong's 1890 vs modern scholarship
About this word
Strong's H454 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 →
- 9
- distinct verses
- The word appears in 9 distinct verses.
- 3 / 39
- OT books
- The word appears in 3 of 39 Old Testament books.
- #2,481
- by frequency
- Top 2500 most frequent Hebrew words (rank 2,481 of 8,640 Hebrew words by occurrence).
View all 9 occurrences in the concordance →
Most concentrated in
- 1 Chronicles 5 verses 56%
- Ezra 3 verses 33%
- Nehemiah 1 verse 11%
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 9 distinct verses.
- Writings (Ketuvim) 9 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).
BDB lists this Strong’s number as 2 distinct words (homographs). Each count above pools all of them and is not split by sense — see the Senses section below. A low-frequency rendering may belong to a different one of those words, not the primary meaning.
- King James Version†: Elioenai 8×
- American Standard Version†: Elioenai 7×, Eliehoenai 2×
- Berean Standard Bible†: Elioenai 7×, Eliehoenai 2×
- unfoldingWord Literal Text†: Elioenai 7×, Eliehoenai 2×
King James Version Public Domain
Renders H454 across 9† tagged occurrences — most commonly:
Plus 1 rendering that appears only once — usually multi-word phrases or single function words the recovered tagging swept in, not distinct renderings.
American Standard Version Public Domain
Renders H454 across 9† tagged occurrences — most commonly:
Berean Standard Bible Public Domain
Renders H454 across 9† tagged occurrences — most commonly:
unfoldingWord Literal Text CC BY-SA 4.0
Renders H454 across 9† 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.
אליהועיני I m. (unto י׳ are mine eyes)
- 1. a Korahite 1 Ch 26:3. e.g. 1 Chronicles 26:3
- 2. a returning exile Ezr 8:4. e.g. Ezra 8:4
אליהועיני II m. (id.)
- 1. a descendant of David 1 Ch 3:23, 24. e.g. 1 Chronicles 3:23
- 2. a Simeonite אֶלְיוֹעֵנַי 1 Ch 4:36. e.g. 1 Chronicles 4:36
- 3. a Benjamite (id.) 7:8. e.g. 1 Chronicles 7:8
- 4. priests in time of Ezra (a) Ezr 10:22; (b) 10:27 (אֶלְיוֹעֵנַי); (c) Ne 12:41. e.g. Ezra 10:22
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
I. n.pr.m. (unto י׳ are mine eyes)
I. n.pr.m. (id.)
— 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) (H413).
Jastrow Dictionary
A second Hebrew/Aramaic lexicon for comparison, covering Aramaic and post-biblical (Talmudic, Targumic, Midrashic) usage that the biblical-Hebrew BDB does not. Matched by lemma rather than by Strong’s number, so a lemma may carry more than one Jastrow headword (shown separately below), and the entries cover usage well beyond the Bible.
אֶלְיְהוֹעֵינַי
- (b. h.) pr. n. m. Elioenai, a highpriest. Par. III, 5.
A Dictionary of the Targumim, the Talmud Babli and Yerushalmi, and the Midrashic Literature (Marcus Jastrow; London, Luzac, 1903) — Public Domain. Digitized via Sefaria. Digitized via Sefaria. Full attribution on Sources.
Forms in the corpus
The 9 distinct written forms H454 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| אֶלְיְהֽוֹעֵינַ֖י | Noun, Proper | Ezra 8:4 | 1 |
| אֶלְיְהוֹעֵינַ֖י | Noun, Proper | 1 Chronicles 26:3 | 1 |
| אֶלְיוֹעֵינַ֗י | Noun, Proper | 1 Chronicles 3:24 | 1 |
| אֶלְיוֹעֵינַ֛י | Noun, Proper | Nehemiah 12:41 | 1 |
| אֶלְיוֹעֵינַ֤י | Noun, Proper | Ezra 10:22 | 1 |
| אֶלְיוֹעֵינַ֧י | Noun, Proper | 1 Chronicles 3:23 | 1 |
| אֶלְיוֹעֵנַ֤י | Noun, Proper | Ezra 10:27 | 1 |
| וְ/אֶלְיוֹעֵינַ֡י | Noun, Proper | 1 Chronicles 4:36 | 1 |
| וְ/אֶלְיוֹעֵינַ֤י | Noun, Proper | 1 Chronicles 7:8 | 1 |
Same root — word family
Other BDB entries built from the same root as H454, 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
Proper names from this root
People and places named from this root — a name, not an additional meaning of the word.
Compare all same-root words → 1 of the same-root words is a proper name (a person or place). They share a root, not necessarily a meaning.
Bible dictionary
Public-domain dictionary articles matched to this entry by name (Elioenai). 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
Toward Jehovah are my eyes, the name of several men mentioned in the Old Testament (1 Chr. 7:8; 4:36; Ezra 10:22, 27). Among these was the eldest son of Neariah, son of Shemaiah, of the descendants of Zerubbabel. His family are the latest mentioned in the Old Testament (1 Chr. 3:23, 24).
Smith's Bible Dictionary · William Smith, 1863
(my eyes are toward the Lord).
+ Elsest son of Neariah, the son of Shemaiah. (1 Chronicles 3:23,24) + Head of a family of the Simeonites. (1 Chronicles 4:36) (B.C. after 1451.) + Head of one of the families of the sons of Becher, the son of Benjamin. (1 Chronicles 7:8) + A Korhite Levite, and one of the doorkeepers of the "house of Jehovah." (1 Chronicles 26:3) + A priest in the days of Ezra, one of those who had married foreign wives. (Ezra 10:22) (B.C. 446.) Possibly the same as + An Israelite of the sons of Zattu, who had also married a foreign wife. (Ezra 10:27) (B.C. 458.)
Hitchcock's Bible Names Dictionary · Roswell D. Hitchcock, 1869
toward him are mine eyes; or to him are my fountains
Classic public-domain reference works; full attribution on Sources.
Septuagint verse parallels
This word appears in 8 verses that also exist in the Greek Old Testament (Septuagint), out of the 9 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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This is a verse-level parallel only — the same verses exist in both the Hebrew and Greek Old Testaments. No word-level Hebrew↔Greek correspondence is claimed: the data carries no such alignment, so no Greek word is shown as this Hebrew word’s translation. Coverage is not total — the Septuagint omits the deuterocanon and renumbers the Psalms, so some Hebrew verses have no direct Greek parallel.
