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Meaning and etymology of the name Eldad
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Eldad 
There's only one person named Eldad in the Bible. When Moses complains that the government of the people is too much to handle for one man, God instructs Moses to assign seventy men to serve as his adjutants. Only sixty-eight of the seventy show up at the Tent of the Meeting, but when God pours out His Spirit, the two who stayed in the camp and didn't come to the Tabernacle, start prophesying anyway. One of these men is Eldad. The other is Medad.
The name Eldad consists of two elements. The first part is  (El), the common abbreviation of Elohim.
The second part of the name Eldad comes from the unused root  (yadad), which probably means to love, as becomes clear from this roots three extant derivatives:
The verb yadad is probably closely related to the root  (dwd), also meaning to love; the root of the name David.
For a meaning of the name Eldad, BDB Theological Dictionary and NOBS Study Bible Name List both read God Has Loved. Jones' Dictionary of Old Testament Proper Names proposes Whom God Loves.
Other names that make use of the roots ydd or dwd are
Bildad,
Dodo,
Dodai,
Dodavahu,
Eldad,
Elidad,
Iddo,
Jaddai,
Jedidah,
Jedidiah
and Medad.
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