Bible Names

Elealeh: meaning of the name

Elealeh means “burnt-offering of God.”
Hitchcock's Bible Names Dictionary (1869)

Elealeh in Hebrew and Greek

אֶלְעָלֵא H500

ʼElʻâlêʼ (el-aw-lay') — Elale or Elaleh, a place east of the Jordan

or (more properly) אֶלְעָלֵה; from H410 (אֵל) and H5927 (עָלָה); God (is) going up;

Places named Elealeh

Elealeh in Scripture

“Elealeh” appears in 5 verses of the King James Version.

  • Numbers 32:3

    Ataroth, and Dibon, and Jazer, and Nimrah, and Heshbon, and Elealeh, and Shebam, and Nebo, and Beon,

  • Numbers 32:37

    And the children of Reuben built Heshbon, and Elealeh, and Kirjathaim,

  • Isaiah 15:4

    And Heshbon shall cry, and Elealeh: their voice shall be heard even unto Jahaz: therefore the armed soldiers of Moab shall cry out; his life shall be grievous unto him.

  • Isaiah 16:9

    Therefore I will bewail with the weeping of Jazer the vine of Sibmah: I will water thee with my tears, O Heshbon, and Elealeh: for the shouting for thy summer fruits and for thy harvest is fallen.

  • Jeremiah 48:34

    From the cry of Heshbon even unto Elealeh, and even unto Jahaz, have they uttered their voice, from Zoar even unto Horonaim, as an heifer of three years old: for the waters also of Nimrim shall be desolate.