Eliphelet

Hastings' Dictionary of the Bible

Eliphelet . 1. One of David’s sons ( 2Sa 5:16 ,   1 Chronicles 14:7 (AV [Note: Authorized Version.] Eliphalet ),   1 Chronicles 3:6;   1 Chronicles 3:8 = Elpelet of   1 Chronicles 14:5 ). The double occurrence of the name in Chronicles, as if David had had two sons named Eliphelet, is probably due to a scribal error. 2. One of David’s mighty men (  2 Samuel 23:34 = Eliphal of   1 Chronicles 11:35 ). 3. A descendant of Jonathan (  1 Chronicles 8:39 ). 4. One of the sons of Adonikam who returned from exile (  Ezra 8:13 = Eliphalat of 1Es 8:39 ). 5. A son of Hashum who had married a foreign wife (  Ezra 10:33 = Eliphalat of 1Es 9:33 ).

Smith's Bible Dictionary

Eliph'elet. (The God Of Deliverance).

1. The name of a son of David, one of the children born to him, after his establishment in Jerusalem.  1 Chronicles 3:6. (B.C. After 1044).

2. Another son of David, belonging also to the Jerusalem family, and apparently the last of his sons.  1 Chronicles 3:8.

3. One of the thirty warriors of David's guard.  2 Samuel 23:34.

4. Son of Eshek, a descendant of King Saul, through Jonathan.  1 Chronicles 8:39. (B.C. Before 536).

5. One of the leaders of the Bene-Adonikam, (that is, sons of Adonikam), who returned from Babylon with Ezra.  Ezra 8:13. (B.C. 459).

6. A man of the Bene-Hushum, (that is, sons of Hushum), in the time of Ezra who had married a foreign wife.  Ezra 10:33. (B.C. 458).

Easton's Bible Dictionary

A descendant of king Saul through Jonathan ( 1 Chronicles 8:39 ).

Copyright Statement These dictionary topics are from M.G. Easton M.A., DD Illustrated Bible Dictionary, Third Edition, published by Thomas Nelson, 1897. Public Domain.

Bibliography Information Easton, Matthew George. Entry for 'Eliphelet'. Easton's Bible Dictionary. https://www.studylight.org/dictionaries/eng/ebd/e/eliphelet.html. 1897.

Holman Bible Dictionary

 2 Samuel 5:16 1 Chronicles 3:8  1 Chronicles 14:7 1 Chronicles 14:5 1 Chronicles 8:39 3 Ezra 8:13 4 Ezra 10:33 5 2 Samuel 23:34

Fausset's Bible Dictionary

(See Eliphalet .)

1.  2 Samuel 23:34.

2.  1 Chronicles 8:39.

3.  1 Chronicles 8:13.

4.  1 Chronicles 10:33.

Morrish Bible Dictionary

See ELIPHALET.

Cyclopedia of Biblical, Theological and Ecclesiastical Literature

(Hebrew Eliphe'let, אלֵיפֶּלֶט , in pause Elipha'Let, אלִֵיפָּלִט , God is his deliverance); the name of several men.

1. (Sept. Ε᾿Λιφαλάτ v.r. Ἀλιφαλέθ and Ἀλιφαλετ , Vulg. Elipheleth.) One of David's distinguished warriors, styled "the son of Ahasbai, the son of the Maachathite" ( 2 Samuel 23:34); but, by some error and abbreviation, ELIPHAT (See Eliphat) (q.v.), the son of Ur, [and] Hepher, the Mecherathite," in the parallel passage ( 1 Chronicles 11:35-36.)

2. (Sept. Ε᾿Λιφαλέτ v.r. Ε᾿Λιφαλέθ , Vulg. Eliphaleth.) The third of the nine sons of David, born at Jerusalem, exclusive of those by Bathsheba ( 1 Chronicles 3:6;  1 Chronicles 14:5, in which latter passage the name is written Elpalet). B.C. post 1044.

3. (Sept. Ε᾿Λιφαλέτ v.r. Ε᾿Λιφαλά , Vulg. Eliphelet.) The ninth of the same ( 1 Chronicles 3:8;  1 Chronicles 14:7;  2 Samuel 5:16, in which two latter passages the name is Anglicized "Eliphalet"). It is believed that there were not two sons of this name, but that, like Nogah, one is merely a transcriber's repetition. The two are certainly omitted in Samuel, but, on the other hand, they are inserted in two separate lists in Chronicles, and in both cases the number of sons is summed up at the close of the list. Josephus mentions but one Eliphale ( Ε᾿Λιφαλέ ), as the last of David's eleven sons, and states that the last two were born of concubines (Ant. 7:3, 3). (See David).

4. (Sept. Ε᾿Λιφαλέτ , Vulg. Eliphalet.) The third of the three sons of Eshek, of the posterity of Benjamin, and a descendant of king Saul through Jonathan ( 1 Chronicles 8:39). B.C. ante 536.

5. (Sept. Ε᾿Λιφαλάθ v.r. Ε᾿Λιφαλάτ , Vulg. Eliphelet.) One of the sons of Adonikam, who returned from Babylon with his two brothers and 60 males ( Ezra 8:13). B.C. 459.

6. (Sept. Ε᾿Λιφαλέτ ,Vulg. Elipheleth.) An Israelite of the lineage of Hashum, who divorced his Gentile wife after the exile ( Ezra 10:33). B.C. 458.