Hebrew proper noun (a person) · H445
אֶלְחָנָן
Elchananel-khaw-nawn'
Elhanan
4 uses in the Hebrew text, one for each word STEP Bible has tagged with this key
Concordance spelling: ʼElchânân
Word page · Part of the concordance, one page for every word of the Hebrew and Greek text. Strong's H445is this word's number in James Strong's 1890 index of the King James Bible.
- 2 of 39Old Testament books
- 3spellings
The definition in full
Strong's key (1890) · H445
Elchanan, an Israelite
The King James renders it: Elkanan.
James Strong, The Exhaustive Concordance of the Bible (1890), public domain. Strong indexed the King James text, and this site quotes his entry as that index.
Summary
Elchanan is rendered "Elhanan". It stands 4 times in the Hebrew text, across two books.
- Two of the uses stand in 2 Samuel, more than in any other book.
- Its first use in canonical order opens the ledger below.2 Samuel 21:19Once again there was a battle with the Philistines at Gob, and Elhanan son of Jair the Bethlehemite killed the brother of Goliath the Gittite, the shaft of whose spear was like a weaver’s beam.
- The Greek text spells it three different ways.
The first use
Once again there was a battle with the Philistines at Gob, and Elhanan son of Jair the Bethlehemite killed the brother of Goliath the Gittite, the shaft of whose spear was like a weaver’s beam.
2 Samuel 21:19אֶלְחָנָן֩
The first use, in the order of the Old Testament's books.
Where the word stands
Two of the word's four uses are in 2 Samuel.
What the word means
Each meaning, and the words it is translated by
How the Greek text is glossed, word by word
- Elhanan4
The words built on the same word-part
Each word below begins with the same letters this one begins with. A shared word-part shows a family. It does not settle what any one of them means, so each word carries its own uses on its own page. Scholars call that shared part the stem.
| Word | Written | Meaning | Uses |
|---|---|---|---|
| אֶלְגָּבִישׁ | elgabish | hail | Uses3 |
All 4, in canonical order
Every use, in order
Every use, grouped by book, with its verse.
3 spellings and their grammar
STEP Bible tags every word of the Hebrew and Greek text with its spelling and its grammar. Both lists below count the rows printed underneath, written out in English, with the code beside each one as it was tagged.
How it is spelled
- אֶלְחָנָ֥ן2
- אֶלְחָנָן֩1
- אֶלְחָנָ֣ן1
The grammar of each form
- proper noun (a name)4HNpm
2 Samuel
two uses
Once again there was a battle with the Philistines at Gob, and Elhanan son of Jair the Bethlehemite killed the brother of Goliath the Gittite, the shaft of whose spear was like a weaver’s beam.
- אֶלְחָנָן֩ʾelchananproper noun (a name)tagged: Elhanan
Now these were members of the Thirty: Asahel the brother of Joab, Elhanan son of Dodo of Bethlehem,
- אֶלְחָנָ֥ןʾelchananproper noun (a name)tagged: Elhanan
1 Chronicles
two uses
Now these were the mighty men: Asahel the brother of Joab, Elhanan son of Dodo of Bethlehem,
- אֶלְחָנָ֥ןʾelchananproper noun (a name)tagged: Elhanan
Once again there was a battle with the Philistines, and Elhanan son of Jair killed Lahmi the brother of Goliath the Gittite, the shaft of whose spear was like a weaver’s beam.
- אֶלְחָנָ֣ןʾelchananproper noun (a name)tagged: Elhanan
The letters
Gematria 139· 789 mispar gadol
Where it leads
How the numbers are counted
Every count on this page comes from STEP Bible's tagged Hebrew and Greek text, the same text the ledger prints. A use is counted once each time the tagging marks a word with this key.
Spellings are counted as the Greek text spells them, with the sentence's own punctuation taken off the word first, so a form that ends a clause is not counted as a second spelling.
The family is read from the lexicon by the stem the two words share, with the accents off, and a person or a place named on the stem is left out.