Elasah

El’asah. (whom God made).

1. A priest, in the time of Ezra, who had married a Gentile wife. Ezr 10:22. (B.C. 458).

2. Son of Shaphan, one of the two men who were sent on a mission, by King Zedekiah to Nebuchadnezzar at Babylon. Jer 29:3. (B.C. 594).

1. Ezr 10:22.

2. Son of Shaphan, one of the two sent by king Zedekiah to Nebuchadnezzar at Babylon (by whose permission alone be reigned) after the first deportation. He took charge of Jeremiah’s letter to the captives (Jer 29:3).

[some Ela’sah] (Hebrews Elasah’, עֶלְעָשָׁה, whom God made; Vulg. Elasa), the name of four men (variously Anglicized in the A.V.). SEE ELEASA.

1. (Sept. Ε᾿λεασά.) The son of Helez, and father of Sisamai; one of the descendants of Judah, of the family of Hezron (1Ch 2:39, A.V. "Eleasah"). B.C. post 1046.

2. (Sept. Ε᾿λεασά v.r. Ε᾿λασά, A.V. "Eleasah.") A son of Rapha or Repharah, and father of Azel; descendant of king Saul through Jonathan and Meribbaal or Mephibosheth (1Ch 8:37; 1Ch 9:43). B.C. considerably ante 588.

3. (Sept. Ε᾿λεασάρ v.r. Ε᾿λεασάν, A.V. "Elasah.") The son of Shaphan; one of the two men who were sent on a mission by king Zedekiah to Nebuchadnezzar at Babylon after the first deportation from Jerusalem, and who at the same time took charge of the letter of Jeremiah the prophet to the captives in Babylon (Jer 29:3). B.C. 594.

4. (Sept. ᾿Ηλασά, A.V. "Elasah.") One of the Bene-Pashur, a priest, who renounced the Gentile wife whom he had married after the return from Babylon (Ezr 10:22). B.C. 458.

[Ela’sah]

1. Priest who had married a strange wife. Ezr 10:22.

2. Ambassador whom Zedekiah sent to Nebuchadnezzar. Jer 29:3. In the Hebrew this name is the same as ELEASAH.

ELASAH (‘God hath made’).—1. One of those who had married a foreign wife (Ezr 10:22). 2. The son of Shaphau, who, along with Gemariah the son of Hilkiah, carried a message from king Zedekiah to Babylon (Jer 29:3).

el´a-sa (אלעשׂה, ’el‛āsāh, “God has made”):

(1) An Israelite who had married a foreign wife (Ezr 10:22).

(2) A son of Shaphan, by whom, with Gemariah, King Zedekiah sent a message to Babylon (Jer 29:3). See ELEASAH.