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Elioenai

What Bible dictionaries say about “Elioenai”, one article after the other.

Easton’s Bible Dictionary & Webster’s 1828 Dictionary

Elioenai - (Easton's Bible Dictionary)

Toward Jehovah are my eyes, the name of several men mentioned in the Old Testament (1 Chr. 7:8; 4:36; Ezra 10:22, 27). Among these was the eldest son of Neariah, son of Shemaiah, of the descendants of Zerubbabel. His family are the latest mentioned in the Old Testament (1 Chr. 3:23, 24).

Matthew George Easton, Easton’s Bible Dictionary; Noah Webster, American Dictionary of the English Language (1828)

The article in Easton + Webster 1828

International Standard Bible Encyclopedia (ISBE 1915)

e-li-o-e'-na-i.

See ELIEHOENAI.

International Standard Bible Encyclopedia — James Orr, general editor and contributors; CrossWire SWORD module ISBE 2.2

The article in ISBE 1915

Smith’s Bible Dictionary

(my eyes are toward the Lord).
  1. Elsest son of Neariah, the son of Shemaiah. (1 Chronicles 3:23,24)
  2. Head of a family of the Simeonites. (1 Chronicles 4:36) (B.C. after 1451.)
  3. Head of one of the families of the sons of Becher, the son of Benjamin. (1 Chronicles 7:8)
  4. A Korhite Levite, and one of the doorkeepers of the "house of Jehovah." (1 Chronicles 26:3)
  5. A priest in the days of Ezra, one of those who had married foreign wives. (Ezra 10:22) (B.C. 446.) Possibly the same as
  6. An Israelite of the sons of Zattu, who had also married a foreign wife. (Ezra 10:27) (B.C. 458.)

William Smith; revised by F. N. Peloubet and M. A. Peloubet; CrossWire SWORD module Smith 1.3

The article in Smith