Eliasaph (Hastings' Dictionary)

1. Son of Deuel, and prince of Gad at the first census (Nu 1" 2» 7- ■" lO P). 2. Son of Lael, and prince of the Gershonites (Nu 3^" P). ELIASHIB [3ir;^N 'God will (or, does) bring back (or, restore).' In LXX the most frequent forms are 'EXenrov^ (B), 'EXuroO^ (K A), 'EXfio(re(/9 (N B), 'EXio(re(;3 (AB)]. — A popular name after the ExUe ; perhaps, in spite of I Ch 24'^ it was not in use in preexUic times. The persons of this name mentioned in OT are — 1. The high priest who was contemporary with Nehemiah. He was son of Joiakim, grandson of Jeshua the son of Jozadak, the contemporary of Zerubbabel (Neh 12'°, Ezr 3>), and father of Joiada (Neh 12" 132»). He assisted in the rebuilding of the walls of Jerus. during Nehemiah's governorship (Neh 3'). He can have had no sympathy \vith the exclusive policy of Ezra and iJehemiali, for both he himself and members of his family allied themselves with the leading foreign opponents of Neheni iah { Neh 2'"). The exact nature of Eliashib's own alliance with Tobiah the Ammonite is not stated (Neh 13), but a son of his son Joiada, during the period of Nehemiah's recall to the Pers. court, married a daughter of Sanballat the Horonite, and was in consequence driven away by Nehemiah on his return (Neh 13^). This, combined with the ex- pulsion of Tobiah from the temple-chamber pro- vided for him by E. (Neh 13"-), must have created, even if it had not existed before, an open schism between E. and Nehemiah. Cf. furtlier below (No. 7), and Kyle's notes on the passages cited above in the Cam. Bible ed. of Ezr-Neh. 2. A singer of the time of Ezra, who had married a foreign wife (Ezr 10"), called in 1 Es 9^ Eliasibus. 3. An Isr. of the family of Zattu (Ezr 10", in 1 Es • Xote on the gmuinenesi of the name. — The name occure but twice in MT ; in one case (2 S IP) all VSS except the Vulg., and In the other the LXX. show a different name. In spite of this a close comparison of the VSS conflrms the correctness of the Maaaoretic tradition of the rare name Eliam, which certainly ocoun in Phcon. (CIS 147, DySx, on a Sardinian inscription) as ag&lnst the commoner names which appear in the VSS. Ammiel (1 Ch 35) may be an actual alternative name of the same man (cf. Jehoiachin and Coniah), or may be the alteration of an offensive, because misunderstood, name (Eliam being regarded as—' God of the peof le ') into a less exceptional form (Ammiel regarded ««=' People Df God ') ; see further, Gray, Stxid. in Beb. Proper Same; p. ib 9^ Eliasimus) ; and 4. another of the family <A Bani (Ezr HI-"), who had married foreign wives. 5. A son of Elioenai and descendant of David. From the position of the name in the genealogy this E. must have lived after the Exile, and possiUy as late as the middle of the 4th cent. (1 Ch S"). 6. According to the Chronicler (1 Ch 24'^), E. was the name of a priestly house in the time of David. But see the references and the literature cited in Ammiel 3. 7. Father of Jehohanan, to whose chamber in the temple Ezra resorted (Ezr 10). But the suggestion (see, e.rj., Ry\e on Ezr 10") that this E. is identical with No. 1 is not improbable. See art. JoiiANAN. G. B. GRAY. ELIASIB (A 'EXit£o-ij3o!, B NafffijSos), 1 Es 9'.— A high priest in the time of Neh. Ezr 10", Eliasuib. ELIASIBUS (A 'EXiaVijSos, B -(Tf/3os, AV Eleazurus, perhaps from the Aldine 'E\ias"'oii0o5, p being read for 0), 1 Es 9^. — One of the 'holy singers,' who put away his strange wife. In Ezr 10-* Eliashib. ELIASIMUS (A'EXirfffi/tos, B -«-ei-, AVElisimus), 1 Es 9-».— In Ezr 10" Eliashib. ELIASIS ('EXioffris), 1 Es 9".— This name and Enasibus may be duplicate forms answering to Eliashib in Ezr 10^ (Speaker's Comm.).