Strong H475H475Oאֶלְיָשִׁיב
Eliashib
One of the 9 senses of Strong H475
- Transliteration
- 'elyâshîyb
- Pronunciation
- el-yaw-sheeb'
- Morphology
- Proper Name (Masculine) of a Person
Definition
A man living at the time of Exile and Return, first mentioned at Neh.13.4
Meaning of the name
Eliashib = "God restores"
General definition
In the biblical story
Eliashib
Priest who prepared a room for Tobiah in the temple
Eliashib, a priest, had ties to Tobiah the Ammonite and prepared a room for him in the temple courts.
In the Bible
Strong H475O appears in 2 verses of the KJV.
Translated in the KJV by
- eliashib2
First verses
- Nehemiah 13:4And before this, Eliashib the priest, having the oversight of the chamber of the house of our God, was allied unto Tobiah:
- Nehemiah 13:7And I came to Jerusalem, and understood of the evil that Eliashib did for Tobiah, in preparing him a chamber in the courts of the house of God.