Elkanah (Hastings' Dictionary)

The second son of Korah, brother to Assir and Abi- asaph, one of the clans of the Korahites (Ex 6*). We are told that ' the children of Korah died not ' in the overthrow of Korah, Dathan, and Abiram (Nu 26"). 2. The son of Jeroliam, the son of Eliliu, the son of Tohu, the son of Zuph, an Ephraimite of Ramathaim-zophim, of the hill country of Ephraim, the husband of Hannah, his favourite wife, and Peninnah.

Hannah felt her childlessness very much, especially as Peninnah mocked her for it ; but E. endeavoured to comfort her. At length, after several yearly visits to the temple at Shiloh, Hannah was promised a son. Tliis son was called Samuel, and Hannah and her husband offered him to the Lord when he was but an infant, and left him with Eli on tlieir return to Ramah (1 S 1'- 2"). 3. The son of Assir, the son of Korah (1 Ch 6^), apparently identical with (1), and an ancestor of (2). 4.

The father of Zuph or Zophai (1 Ch 6^-"). 5. An ancestor of Berechiah, the son of Asa, ' that dwelt in the villages of the Netopha- thites' (I Ch 9"). 6. One of David's mighty men, a Korahite (1 Ch 12"). 7. One of the two door- keepers for the ark (1 Ch 15^), perhaps identical with (6). 8. ' That was next to the king,' slain in the reign of Ahaz with ' Maaseiah tlie king's son, and Azrikam the ruler of the house,' by Zicliri, ' a mighty man of Ephraim' (2 Ch 28'). H. A. Redpath.