Bible Names

Eliab: meaning of the name

Eliab means “God is my father; God is the father.”
Hitchcock's Bible Names Dictionary (1869)boy name

Eliab in Hebrew and Greek

אֱלִיאָב H446

ʼĔlîyʼâb (el-ee-awb') — Eliab, the name of six Israelites

from H410 (אֵל) and H1 (אָב); God of (his) father;

People named Eliab in the Bible

Eliab in Scripture

“Eliab” appears in 20 verses of the King James Version; here are the first 8.

  • Numbers 1:9

    Of Zebulun; Eliab the son of Helon.

  • Numbers 2:7

    Then the tribe of Zebulun: and Eliab the son of Helon shall be captain of the children of Zebulun.

  • Numbers 7:24

    On the third day Eliab the son of Helon, prince of the children of Zebulun, did offer:

  • Numbers 7:29

    And for a sacrifice of peace offerings, two oxen, five rams, five he goats, five lambs of the first year: this was the offering of Eliab the son of Helon.

  • Numbers 10:16

    And over the host of the tribe of the children of Zebulun was Eliab the son of Helon.

  • Numbers 16:1

    Now Korah, the son of Izhar, the son of Kohath, the son of Levi, and Dathan and Abiram, the sons of Eliab, and On, the son of Peleth, sons of Reuben, took men:

  • Numbers 16:12

    And Moses sent to call Dathan and Abiram, the sons of Eliab: which said, We will not come up:

  • Numbers 26:8

    And the sons of Pallu; Eliab.