אֶלְקָנָה
Elkanah
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Full lexicon entry — Brown-Driver-Briggs (BDB)
From Brown-Driver-Briggs (BDB)
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 H511 appears in the Book of 1 Chronicles — 10 distinct verses. 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
- 1 Chronicles 6:23 אֶלְקָנָ֥ה n Proper Elkanah his son, and Ebiasaph his son, and Assir his son,
- 1 Chronicles 6:25 אֶלְקָנָ֔ה n Proper The sons of Elkanah: Amasai, and Ahimoth.
- 1 Chronicles 6:26 אֶלְקָנָ֑ה אֶלְקָנָ֔ה n Proper n Proper As for Elkanah, the sons of Elkanah: Zophai his son, and Nahath his son,
- 1 Chronicles 6:27 אֶלְקָנָ֥ה n Proper Eliab his son, Jeroham his son, Elkanah his son.
- 1 Chronicles 6:34 אֶלְקָנָה֙ n Proper the son of Elkanah, the son of Jeroham, the son of Eliel, the son of Toah,
- 1 Chronicles 6:35 אֶלְקָנָ֔ה n Proper the son of Zuph, the son of Elkanah, the son of Mahath, the son of Amasai,
- 1 Chronicles 6:36 אֶלְקָנָה֙ n Proper the son of Elkanah, the son of Joel, the son of Azariah, the son of Zephaniah,
- 1 Chronicles 9:16 אֶלְקָנָ֔ה n Proper and Obadiah the son of Shemaiah, the son of Galal, the son of Jeduthun, and Berechiah the son of Asa, the son of Elkanah, who lived in the villages of the Netophathites.
- 1 Chronicles 12:6 אֶלְקָנָ֡ה n Proper Elkanah, and Isshiah, and Azarel, and Joezer, and Jashobeam, the Korahites,
- 1 Chronicles 15:23 וְ/אֶלְקָנָ֔ה conj + n Proper Berechiah and Elkanah were doorkeepers for the ark.
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.
The Hebrew name אלקנה centers on the idea of “Elkanah.” 1 Chronicles dominates its distribution — 10 of 20 verses. Spanning 20 verses in 4 books, it ranks among the uncommon words of the Hebrew Bible. Debuting at Exodus 6:24, it then recurs through the corpus. For the data behind this summary, explore 20-verse concordance and the renderings breakdown below.
Gloss history
Strong's 1890 vs modern scholarship
About this word
Strong's H511 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 →
- 20
- distinct verses
- The word appears in 20 distinct verses.
- 4 / 39
- OT books
- The word appears in 4 of 39 Old Testament books.
- #1,462
- by frequency
- Top 2500 most frequent Hebrew words (rank 1,462 of 8,640 Hebrew words by occurrence).
View all 20 occurrences in the concordance →
Most concentrated in
- 1 Chronicles 10 verses 50%
- 1 Samuel 8 verses 40%
- Exodus 1 verse 5%
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 20 distinct verses.
- Writings (Ketuvim) 11 verses · 55%
- Prophets (Nevi'im) 8 verses · 40%
- Torah (Pentateuch) 1 verse · 5%
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: Elkanah 19×
- American Standard Version: Elkanah 19×
- Berean Standard Bible: Elkanah 20×
- unfoldingWord Literal Text: Elkanah 20×
King James Version Public Domain
Renders H511 across 21 tagged occurrences — most commonly:
Plus 2 renderings that appear only once — usually multi-word phrases or single function words the recovered tagging swept in, not distinct renderings.
American Standard Version Public Domain
Renders H511 across 21 tagged occurrences — most commonly:
Plus 2 renderings that appear only once — usually multi-word phrases or single function words the recovered tagging swept in, not distinct renderings.
Berean Standard Bible Public Domain
Renders H511 across 20 tagged occurrences — most commonly:
Not rendered by a distinct English word in 1 further occurrence.
unfoldingWord Literal Text CC BY-SA 4.0
Renders H511 across 21 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.
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 5 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. father of Samuel 1 S 1–2 (8 times) 1 Ch 6:12, 19. e.g. 1 Chronicles 6:12
- b. son of Korah Ex 6:24. e.g. Exodus 6:24
- c. a ruler in Jerusalem in the time of Ahaz 2 Ch 28:7. e.g. 2 Chronicles 28:7
- d. one of David’s warriors 1 Ch 12:6. e.g. 1 Chronicles 12:6
- e. several Levites (α) 1 Ch 6:8, 10, 21 (β) v 11, 20 (γ) 9:16 (δ) 15:23. e.g. 1 Chronicles 6:8
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. (God has created, or taken possession)
— 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 12 distinct written forms H511 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| אֶלְקָנָ֔ה | Noun, Proper | 1 Chronicles 6:25 | 4 |
| אֶלְקָנָה֙ | Noun, Proper | 1 Chronicles 6:34 | 3 |
| אֶלְקָנָ֑ה | Noun, Proper | 1 Chronicles 6:26 | 2 |
| אֶלְקָנָ֖ה | Noun, Proper | 1 Samuel 1:21 | 2 |
| אֶלְקָנָ֣ה | Noun, Proper | 1 Samuel 1:8 | 2 |
| אֶלְקָנָ֥ה | Noun, Proper | 1 Chronicles 6:23 | 2 |
| אֶ֠לְקָנָה | Noun, Proper | 1 Samuel 1:1 | 1 |
| אֶלְקָנָ֛ה | Noun, Proper | 1 Samuel 2:11 | 1 |
| אֶלְקָנָ֡ה | Noun, Proper | 1 Chronicles 12:6 | 1 |
| אֶלְקָנָ֨ה | Noun, Proper | 1 Samuel 1:23 | 1 |
| וְ/אֶלְקָנָ֔ה | Noun, Proper | 1 Chronicles 15:23 | 1 |
| וְ/אֶלְקָנָ֖ה | Noun, Proper | Exodus 6:24 | 1 |
Same root — word family
Other BDB entries built from the same root as H511, 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
- אליאל ʼĔlîyʼêl H447 Eliel
- 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
+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 (Elkanah). 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
God-created. (1.) The second son of Korah (Ex. 6:24), or, according to 1 Chr. 6:22, 23, more correctly his grandson.
(2.) Another Levite of the line of Heman the singer, although he does not seem to have performed any of the usual Levitical offices. He was father of Samuel the prophet (1 Chr. 6:27, 34). He was "an Ephrathite" (1 Sam. 1:1, 4, 8), but lived at Ramah, a man of wealth and high position. He had two wives, Hannah, who was the mother of Samuel, and Peninnah.
Hitchcock's Bible Names Dictionary · Roswell D. Hitchcock, 1869
God the zealous; the zeal of God
Classic public-domain reference works; full attribution on Sources.
Septuagint verse parallels
This word appears in 20 verses that also exist in the Greek Old Testament (Septuagint), out of the 20 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.
