Hebrew proper noun (a person) · H5941
עֵלִי
Eliay-lee'
Eli
33 uses in the Hebrew text, one for each word STEP Bible has tagged with this key
Concordance spelling: ʻÊlîy
Word page · Part of the concordance, one page for every word of the Hebrew and Greek text. Strong's H5941is this word's number in James Strong's 1890 index of the King James Bible.
- 2 of 39Old Testament books
- 15spellings
The definition in full
Strong's key (1890) · H5941
Eli, an Israelite highpriest
The King James renders it: Eli.
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
Eli is rendered "Eli". It stands 33 times in the Hebrew text, across two books.
- Thirty-two of the uses stand in 1 Samuel, more than in any other book.
- Its first use in canonical order opens the ledger below.1 Samuel 1:3Year after year Elkanah would go up from his city to worship and sacrifice to the LORD of Hosts at Shiloh, where Eli’s two sons, Hophni and Phinehas, were priests to the LORD.
- The Greek text spells it fifteen different ways.
The first use
Year after year Elkanah would go up from his city to worship and sacrifice to the LORD of Hosts at Shiloh, where Eli’s two sons, Hophni and Phinehas, were priests to the LORD.
1 Samuel 1:3עֵלִ֗י
The first use, in the order of the Old Testament's books.
Where the word stands
Thirty-two of the word's thirty-three uses are in 1 Samuel.
What the word means
Each meaning, and the words it is translated by
How the Greek text is glossed, word by word
- Eli27
- and Eli5
- to Eli1
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.
The words it stands beside
All 33, in canonical order
Every use, in order
Every use, grouped by book, with its verse.
15 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
- עֵלִ֔י5
- עֵלִ֗י4
- וְעֵלִ֖י3
- עֵלִ֖י3
- עֵלִ֑י3
- עֵלִי֙3
- עֵלִ֛י2
- עֵלִ֜י2
- עֵלִֽי׃2
- וְעֵלִ֣י1
- וְעֵלִ֕י1
- לְעֵלִֽי׃1
and 3 more spellings in the ledger below.
The grammar of each form
- proper noun (a name)27HNpm
- conjunction (“and”) + proper noun (a name)5HC/Npm
- preposition + proper noun (a name)1HR/Npm
1 Samuel
thirty-two uses
Year after year Elkanah would go up from his city to worship and sacrifice to the LORD of Hosts at Shiloh, where Eli’s two sons, Hophni and Phinehas, were priests to the LORD.
- עֵלִ֗יʾeliproper noun (a name)tagged: Eli
So after they had finished eating and drinking in Shiloh, Hannah stood up. Now Eli the priest was sitting on a chair by the doorpost of the temple of the LORD.
- וְעֵלִ֣יveeliconjunction (“and”) + proper noun (a name)tagged: and Eli
As Hannah kept on praying before the LORD, Eli watched her mouth.
- וְעֵלִ֖יveeliconjunction (“and”) + proper noun (a name)tagged: and Eli
Hannah was praying in her heart, and though her lips were moving, her voice could not be heard. So Eli thought she was drunk
- עֵלִ֖יʾeliproper noun (a name)tagged: Eli
and said to her, “How long will you be drunk? Put away your wine!”
- עֵלִ֔יʾeliproper noun (a name)tagged: Eli
“Go in peace,” Eli replied, “and may the God of Israel grant the petition you have asked of Him.”
- עֵלִ֛יʾeliproper noun (a name)tagged: Eli
And when they had slaughtered the bull, they brought the boy to Eli.
- עֵלִֽי׃ʾeliproper noun (a name)tagged: Eli
Then Elkanah went home to Ramah, but the boy began ministering to the LORD before Eli the priest.
- עֵלִ֥יʾeliproper noun (a name)tagged: Eli
Now the sons of Eli were wicked men; they had no regard for the LORD
- עֵלִ֖יʾeliproper noun (a name)tagged: Eli
And Eli would bless Elkanah and his wife, saying, “May the LORD give you children by this woman in place of the one she dedicated to the LORD.” Then they would go home.
- עֵלִ֜יʾeliproper noun (a name)tagged: Eli
Now Eli was very old, and he heard about everything his sons were doing to all Israel and how they were sleeping with the women who served at the entrance to the Tent of Meeting.
- וְעֵלִ֖יveeliconjunction (“and”) + proper noun (a name)tagged: and Eli
Then a man of God came to Eli and told him, “This is what the LORD says: ‘Did I not clearly reveal Myself to your father’s house when they were in Egypt under Pharaoh’s house?
- עֵלִ֑יʾeliproper noun (a name)tagged: Eli
And the boy Samuel ministered to the LORD before Eli. Now in those days the word of the LORD was rare and visions were scarce.
- עֵלִ֑יʾeliproper noun (a name)tagged: Eli
And at that time Eli, whose eyesight had grown so dim that he could not see, was lying in his room.
- וְעֵלִ֖יveeliconjunction (“and”) + proper noun (a name)tagged: and Eli
He ran to Eli and said, “Here I am, for you have called me.” “I did not call,” Eli replied. “Go back and lie down.” So he went and lay down.
- עֵלִ֗יʾeliproper noun (a name)tagged: Eli
Once again the LORD called, “Samuel!” So Samuel got up, went to Eli, and said, “Here I am, for you have called me.” “My son, I did not call,” Eli replied. “Go back and lie down.”
- עֵלִ֔יʾeliproper noun (a name)tagged: Eli
Once again, for the third time, the LORD called to Samuel. He got up, went to Eli, and said, “Here I am, for you have called me.” Then Eli realized that it was the LORD who was calling the boy.
- עֵלִ֔יʾeliproper noun (a name)tagged: Eli
- עֵלִ֔יʾeliproper noun (a name)tagged: Eli
“Go and lie down,” he said to Samuel, “and if He calls you, say, ‘Speak, LORD, for Your servant is listening.’” So Samuel went and lay down in his place.
- עֵלִ֣יʾeliproper noun (a name)tagged: Eli
On that day I will carry out against Eli everything I have spoken about his family, from beginning to end.
- עֵלִ֔יʾeliproper noun (a name)tagged: Eli
Therefore I have sworn to the house of Eli, ‘The iniquity of Eli’s house shall never be atoned for by sacrifice or offering.’”
- עֵלִ֑יʾeliproper noun (a name)tagged: Eli
- עֵלִ֛יʾeliproper noun (a name)tagged: Eli
Samuel lay down until the morning; then he opened the doors of the house of the LORD. He was afraid to tell Eli the vision,
- עֵלִֽי׃ʾeliproper noun (a name)tagged: Eli
but Eli called to him and said, “Samuel, my son.” “Here I am,” answered Samuel.
- עֵלִי֙ʾeliproper noun (a name)tagged: Eli
So the people sent men to Shiloh, and they brought back the ark of the covenant of the LORD of Hosts, who sits enthroned between the cherubim. And the two sons of Eli, Hophni and Phinehas, were there with the ark of the covenant of God.
- עֵלִ֗יʾeliproper noun (a name)tagged: Eli
The ark of God was captured, and Eli’s two sons, Hophni and Phinehas, died.
- עֵלִי֙ʾeliproper noun (a name)tagged: Eli
When he arrived, there was Eli, sitting on his chair beside the road and watching, because his heart trembled for the ark of God. When the man entered the city to give a report, the whole city cried out.
- עֵ֠לִיʾeliproper noun (a name)tagged: Eli
Eli heard the outcry and asked, “Why this commotion?” So the man hurried over and reported to Eli.
- עֵלִי֙ʾeliproper noun (a name)tagged: Eli
- לְעֵלִֽי׃leelipreposition + proper noun (a name)tagged: to Eli
Now Eli was ninety-eight years old, and his gaze was fixed because he could not see.
- וְעֵלִ֕יveeliconjunction (“and”) + proper noun (a name)tagged: and Eli
“I have just come from the battle,” the man said to Eli. “I fled from there today.” “What happened, my son?” Eli asked.
- עֵלִ֗יʾeliproper noun (a name)tagged: Eli
including Ahijah, who was wearing an ephod. He was the son of Ichabod’s brother Ahitub son of Phinehas, the son of Eli the priest of the LORD in Shiloh. But the troops did not know that Jonathan had left.
- עֵלִ֜יʾeliproper noun (a name)tagged: Eli
1 Kings
one use
So Solomon banished Abiathar from the priesthood of the LORD and thus fulfilled the word that the LORD had spoken at Shiloh against the house of Eli.
- עֵלִ֖יʾeliproper noun (a name)tagged: Eli
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 words it stands beside are the nouns, verbs and adjectives immediately before or after it, counted in every verse where the word stands. The article, the conjunctions and the prepositions are left out, because they stand beside every word.