Bible Names

Eliezer: meaning of the name

Eliezer means “help, or court, of my God.”
Hitchcock's Bible Names Dictionary (1869)boy name

Eliezer in Hebrew and Greek

אֱלִיעֶזֶר H461

ʼĔlîyʻezer (el-ee-eh'-zer) — Eliezer, the name of a Damascene and of ten Israelites

from H410 (אֵל) and H5828 (עֵזֶר); God of help;

Ἐλιέζερ G1663

Eliézer — Eliezer, an Israelite

of Hebrew origin (H0461);

People named Eliezer in the Bible

Eliezer in Scripture

“Eliezer” appears in 14 verses of the King James Version; here are the first 8.

  • Genesis 15:2

    And Abram said, Lord God, what wilt thou give me, seeing I go childless, and the steward of my house is this Eliezer of Damascus?

  • Exodus 18:4

    And the name of the other was Eliezer; for the God of my father, said he, was mine help, and delivered me from the sword of Pharaoh:

  • 1 Chronicles 7:8

    And the sons of Becher; Zemira, and Joash, and Eliezer, and Elioenai, and Omri, and Jerimoth, and Abiah, and Anathoth, and Alameth. All these are the sons of Becher.

  • 1 Chronicles 15:24

    And Shebaniah, and Jehoshaphat, and Nethaneel, and Amasai, and Zechariah, and Benaiah, and Eliezer, the priests, did blow with the trumpets before the ark of God: and Obed–edom and Jehiah were doorkeepers for the ark.

  • 1 Chronicles 23:15

    The sons of Moses were, Gershom, and Eliezer.

  • 1 Chronicles 23:17

    And the sons of Eliezer were, Rehabiah the chief. And Eliezer had none other sons; but the sons of Rehabiah were very many.

  • 1 Chronicles 26:25

    And his brethren by Eliezer; Rehabiah his son, and Jeshaiah his son, and Joram his son, and Zichri his son, and Shelomith his son.

  • 1 Chronicles 27:16

    Furthermore over the tribes of Israel: the ruler of the Reubenites was Eliezer the son of Zichri: of the Simeonites, Shephatiah the son of Maachah: