Bible Names

Elhanan: meaning of the name

Elhanan means “grace, or gift, or mercy of God.”
Hitchcock's Bible Names Dictionary (1869)boy name

People named Elhanan in the Bible

Elhanan in Scripture

“Elhanan” appears in 4 verses of the King James Version.

  • 2 Samuel 21:19

    And there was again a battle in Gob with the Philistines, where Elhanan the son of Jaare–oregim, a Beth–lehemite, slew the brother of Goliath the Gittite, the staff of whose spear was like a weaver’s beam.

  • 2 Samuel 23:24

    Asahel the brother of Joab was one of the thirty; Elhanan the son of Dodo of Beth–lehem,

  • 1 Chronicles 11:26

    Also the valiant men of the armies were, Asahel the brother of Joab, Elhanan the son of Dodo of Beth–lehem,

  • 1 Chronicles 20:5

    And there was war again with the Philistines; and Elhanan the son of Jair slew Lahmi the brother of Goliath the Gittite, whose spear staff was like a weaver’s beam.