Lexical Definition

‎אֱלִיעֶזֶר‎ ʼĔlîyʻezer (el-ee-eh'-zer) Eliezer ^N:N-M-P
from ‎אֵל‎ and ‎עֵזֶר‎; God of help

Eliezer.

• § Eliezer = "God is help"
• Eliezer, the name of a Damascene and of ten Israelites

1) Abraham's Damascene servant
2) a son of Moses
3) a Benjamite
4) a priest who helped move the ark
5) a Reubenite
6) a prophet who spoke to Jehoshaphat
7) a Levite chief
8) son of Harim
9) priest with foreign wife

See Greek: Ἐλιέζερ

Extended Information

• A man living at the time of Exile and Return, only mentioned at Ezr.10.23

Brown-Driver-Briggs

‎אֱלִיעֶ֫זֶר‎ (‎עֶֿ֑זרֶ‎ Gen 15:2 +) proper name, masculine (God is help, compare Exod 18:4 see also ‎אֶלְעָזָר‎ below, ‎עֲזַרְאֵל‎, Phoenician ‎אשמנעזר‎, ‎בעלעזר‎, ‎עזרבעל‎)
a. Abraham's steward (‎אֱלִיעֶ֑זֶר‎), a Damascene Gen 15:2.
b. a son of Moses Exod 18:4; 1Chr 23:15; 1Chr 23:17 (twice in verse).
c. Benjamite 1Chr 7:8.
d. several priests 1Chr 15:24; 1Chr 26:25; Ezek 10:18.
e. Reubenite 1Chr 27:16. feminine prophet in time of Jehoshaphat 2Chr 20:37.
g. Levite chief Ezek 8:16; Ezek 10:23.
h. son of Harim Ezra 10:31.

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Profile

Male • Returned divorcee • A Levite who married a foreign woman.

Man living at the time of Exile and Return

Eliezer was a Levite who married a foreign woman during the exile (Ezr.10.23).

• A man living at the time of Exile and Return, only mentioned at Ezr.10.23;
• only referred to as Eliezer אֱלִיעֶזֶר.

Eliezer is mentioned as one of the Levites who had married foreign women during the Babylonian exile (Ezr.10.23). After the return to Jerusalem, Ezra discovered that many of the Israelites, including Levites, had intermarried with the neighboring peoples. This was a violation of God's command not to intermarry with the pagan nations. Eliezer was among those who had taken foreign wives, but he agreed to put away his wife as part of the covenant renewal led by Ezra. The Bible does not provide any further details about Eliezer's life or role as a Levite.

All entries for Eliezer: אֱלִיעֶזֶר