Lexical Summary Elishama: "God has heard", the name of several Israelites Original Word: אֱלִישָׁמָעTransliteration: Elishama Phonetic Spelling: (el-ee-shaw-maw') Part of Speech: Proper Name Masculine Short Definition: "God has heard", the name of several Israelites Meaning: Elishama -- "God has heard", the name of several Israelites Strong's Concordance Elishama From 'el and shama'; God of hearing; Elishama, the name of seven Israelites -- Elishama. see HEBREW 'el see HEBREW shama' Brown-Driver-Briggs H476. Elishama אֱלִישָׁמָע (God has heard, compare יִשְׁמָעֵאל, & Sabean יסמעאל אלסמע, Hal187, 193) a. chief of Ephraim Numbers 1:10; 2:18; 7:48, 53; 10:22; 1 Chronicles 7:26. b. son of David 2 Samuel 5:16; 1 Chronicles 3:6, 8; 14:7. c. scribe of Jehoiakim Jeremiah 36:12, 20, 21. d. one of the royal seed 2 Kings 25:25; Jeremiah 41:1. e. a man of Judah 1 Chronicles 2:41. feminine a priest2 Chronicles 17:8. |