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Meaning, origin and etymology of the name Eliezer


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Eliezer Eliezer

The name Eliezer is one of the most popular names in the Bible, especially when we also count all the instances of the almost identical name Eleazer (Eleazar).
No less than eleven Eliezers are recorded; two of which are quite famous. First there is Abraham's trusted, foreign born servant who eventually retrieved Rebekah for Isaac. The other better known Eliezer is one of two sons of Moses with Zipporah (his brother is named Gershom - Ex 18:4).

Other Eliezers are: a chief Reubenite (1 Chr 27:16), a grandson of Benjamin (1 Chr 7:8), a trumpet player in the time of David, associated with the service of the Ark of the Covenant (1 Chr 15:24), a prophet who prophesies against king Jehoshaphat's merchant fleet (2 Chr 20:37), a member of a delegation that Ezra sends out to acquire a temple directorate (Ezr 8:16), three Eliezers who divorced their foreign wives (Ezr 10:18, 23 & 31), and an ancestor of Jesus (Luke 3:29).

The name Eliezer is a compound of two elements. The first part is the word el (El 93), the common abbreviation of Elohim. The second part comes from the verb azar (azar 1598) meaning help, support. This verb is quite common and used in all expected ways. Most notable is its usage in describing the function of Eve to Adam, 'It is not good for the man to be alone, I will make him a helper suitable for him' (Gen 2:18).

Some other names that contain the verb azar are: Ezer, Ezra, and Ezri.

The meaning of the name Eliezer is God Of Help (Jones and NOBSE) or God Is Help (BDB).





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