Lexical Definition

‎אֶלְנָתָן‎ ʼElnâthân (el-naw-thawn') Elnathan ^N:N-M-P
from ‎אֵל‎ and ‎נָתַן‎; God (is the) giver

Elnathan.

• § Elnathan = "God has given"
• Elnathan, the name of four Israelites

1) king Jehoiachin's maternal grandfather
2) three chief men in Ezra's time
3) son of Achbor, a military commander under Jehoiakim

Brown-Driver-Briggs

‎אֶלְנָתָן‎ (God has given, compare ‎נְתַנְאֵל‎, & Assyrian Ilu-iddin Dl^{Pr 207, Phoenician} ‎בעליתן‎, ‎יתנבעל‎, Palmyrene ‎עתנתן‎, ‎והבלת‎, Vog^{Pal 30 & p. 31 f}, Nabataean ‎והבאל‎, ‎קסנתן‎ Eut^{Nab 12, 1}, Sabean ‎והבאל‎, ‎אלוהב‎ DHM^{ZMG 1883, 15. 361. 388} CIS^{iv.1,1.2.6, Theodore, Diodate}).
a. the grandfather of Jehoiakim 2Kgs 24:8 compare Jer 26:22; Jer 36:12; Jer 36:25 (?).
b. Levites of the time of Ezra Ezra 8:16 (3 t. in verse).

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