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Eleasah meaning

Eleasah in Biblical Hebrew
אלעשה
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🔼The name Eleasah: Summary

Meaning
God Has Made
Etymology
From (1) the word אל ('el), God, and (2) the verb עשה ('asa), to do or make.
Related names
• Via אל ('el): See the 'browse by form' menu for a long list of 'el-names.
• Via עשה ('asa): Asahel, Asaiah, Ashvath, Asiel, Baaseiah, Esau, Jaasiel, Jaasu

🔼The name Eleasah in the Bible

The name Eleasah (or Elasah, as some translations have it) occurs four times in the Bible:

  • Eleasah is the name of a man from Judah (1 Chronicles 2:39).
  • A Benjaminite (1 Chronicles 8:37).
  • A priest who divorced his foreign wife during the purge of Ezra (Ezra 10:22).
  • A postman who delivered Jeremiah's letter to the exiles in Babylon (Jeremiah 29:3).

🔼Etymology of the name Eleasah

The name Eleasah consists of two elements. The first element is אל (El), either the prominent Canaanite deity whose name became applied to the God of Israel, or the common abbreviation of Elohim, the genus God:

Excerpted from: Abarim Publications' Biblical Dictionary
אל  אלה

In names אל ('el) usually refers to אלהים ('elohim), that is Elohim, or God, also known as אלה ('eloah). In English, the words 'God' and 'god' exclusively refer to the deity but in Hebrew the words אל ('l) and אלה ('lh) are far more common and may express approach and negation, acts of wailing and pointing, and may even mean oak or terebinth.

— See the full Dictionary article —

The second element comes from the verb עשה ('asa), meaning to do, fashion, accomplish:

Excerpted from: Abarim Publications' Biblical Dictionary
עשה

The verb עשה ('asa) means to do, make happen or work with. Noun מעשה (ma'aseh) means deed, act, work, doing, making and so on.

— See the full Dictionary article —

🔼Eleasah meaning

The name Eleasah means God Has Made (NOBSE Study Bible Name List) or Whom God Made (BDB Theological Dictionary) and is the reversal of the name Asahel, Made By God.