Bible Names

Elishama: meaning of the name

Elishama means “God hearing.”
Hitchcock's Bible Names Dictionary (1869)boy name

Elishama in Hebrew and Greek

אֱלִישָׁמָע H476

ʼĔlîyshâmâʻ (el-ee-shaw-maw') — Elishama, the name of seven Israelites

from H410 (אֵל) and H8085 (שָׁמַע); God of hearing;

People named Elishama in the Bible

Elishama in Scripture

“Elishama” appears in 17 verses of the King James Version; here are the first 8.

  • Numbers 1:10

    Of the children of Joseph: of Ephraim; Elishama the son of Ammihud: of Manasseh; Gamaliel the son of Pedahzur.

  • Numbers 2:18

    On the west side shall be the standard of the camp of Ephraim according to their armies: and the captain of the sons of Ephraim shall be Elishama the son of Ammihud.

  • Numbers 7:48

    On the seventh day Elishama the son of Ammihud, prince of the children of Ephraim, offered:

  • Numbers 7:53

    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 Elishama the son of Ammihud.

  • Numbers 10:22

    And the standard of the camp of the children of Ephraim set forward according to their armies: and over his host was Elishama the son of Ammihud.

  • 2 Samuel 5:16

    And Elishama, and Eliada, and Eliphalet.

  • 2 Kings 25:25

    But it came to pass in the seventh month, that Ishmael the son of Nethaniah, the son of Elishama, of the seed royal, came, and ten men with him, and smote Gedaliah, that he died, and the Jews and the Chaldees that were with him at Mizpah.

  • 1 Chronicles 2:41

    And Shallum begat Jekamiah, and Jekamiah begat Elishama.