Bible Names

Eldad: meaning of the name

Eldad means “favored of God; love of God.”
Hitchcock's Bible Names Dictionary (1869)boy name

Eldad in Hebrew and Greek

אֶלְדָּד H419

ʼEldâd (el-dad') — Eldad, an Israelite

from H410 (אֵל) and H1730 (דּוֹד); God has loved;

Who named Eldad in the Bible

Eldad in Scripture

“Eldad” appears in 2 verses of the King James Version.

  • Numbers 11:26

    But there remained two of the men in the camp, the name of the one was Eldad, and the name of the other Medad: and the spirit rested upon them; and they were of them that were written, but went not out unto the tabernacle: and they prophesied in the camp.

  • Numbers 11:27

    And there ran a young man, and told Moses, and said, Eldad and Medad do prophesy in the camp.