Eliezer (Hastings' Dictionary)

See Eleazar. 1. Abraham's chief servant, a Damascene (Gn 15^ AV, RVm). (The construction here is diiiioult, but the words can hardly be rendered as a double proper name as RV, ' Damniesek Eliezer.' What- ever the exact construction, the words, unless there is a corruption in the text, must be intended to suggest that E. was in some way connected with Damascus. See Delitzsch, New Com. on Gen. ii. 4). This same E. is prob. the servant referred to in Gn 24. 2.

A son of Moses by Zipporah ; so named to commemorate the deliverance of Moses from Pharaoh (Ex 18*, 1 Ch 23"- "). 3. The son of Becher a Benjamite (1 Ch 7'). 4. The son of Zichri, captain of the tribe of Reuben in David's reign (1 Ch 27"). 5. The son of Dodavahu of Mareshah, who prophesied the destruction of the fleet of sliii)s which Jehoshaphat built in co- operation with Ahaziah (2 Ch 20"). 6. An E.

ia ELIUOKEI'H ELIJAH G87 mentioned among the 'chief men' whom Ezra sent from Almva to Casiphia to find Lerites and Nethiniiii willing to join the expedition to Jeru- salem (Ezr 8""-). 7. 8. 9. A priest, a Levite, and a son of Harim, who ha<l married 'stranjie women,' i.e. wives of non-Israclitish descent, in the time of Ezra (Ezr 10'»- ^- "). 10. One of the priests appointed to blow with the tnimpets before the arfc of God when David brought it from the house of Obed-edom to Jerus. (1 Ch 15").

11. A Levite mentioned in 1 Ch 26^. 12. An E. is mentioned in the genealogy of our Lord given by St. Luke {S'^). W. C. Allen. ELIHOREPH (Tin'^K, possibly ' God of autumn,' or •of ripe age' ; cf. Job 29* RV. 'EXid0 B, 'Ei'apf<^ A, 'EXidp Luc). — One of Solomon's scribes (1 K 4').