Ehud: meaning of the name

Ehud in Hebrew and Greek

People named Ehud in the Bible

• Ehud, son of Gera

  8 verses · first mentioned in Judges 3:15 · Tribe of Benjamin

• Ehud, son of Bilhan

  1 verse · first mentioned in 1 Chronicles 7:10 · Tribe of Benjamin

Ehud in Scripture

“Ehud” appears in 9 verses of the King James Version; here are the first 8.

• Judges 3:15

  But when the children of Israel cried unto the Lord, the Lord raised them up a deliverer, Ehud the son of Gera, a Benjamite, a man lefthanded: and by him the children of Israel sent a present unto Eglon the king of Moab.

• Judges 3:16

  But Ehud made him a dagger which had two edges, of a cubit length; and he did gird it under his raiment upon his right thigh.

• Judges 3:20

  And Ehud came unto him; and he was sitting in a summer parlour, which he had for himself alone. And Ehud said, I have a message from God unto thee. And he arose out of his seat.

• Judges 3:21

  And Ehud put forth his left hand, and took the dagger from his right thigh, and thrust it into his belly:

• Judges 3:23

  Then Ehud went forth through the porch, and shut the doors of the parlour upon him, and locked them.

• Judges 3:26

  And Ehud escaped while they tarried, and passed beyond the quarries, and escaped unto Seirath.

• Judges 4:1

  And the children of Israel again did evil in the sight of the Lord, when Ehud was dead.

• 1 Chronicles 7:10

  The sons also of Jediael; Bilhan: and the sons of Bilhan; Jeush, and Benjamin, and Ehud, and Chenaanah, and Zethan, and Tharshish, and Ahishahar.