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International Standard Bible Encyclopedia

ELKANAH

el-ka'-na ('elqanah, "God has possessed"):

(1) An Ephraimite, the father of Samuel (1 Samuel 1:1-28; 1 Samuel 2:11-20). Of his two wives, Hannah, the childless, was best beloved. At Shiloh she received through Eli the promise of a son. Elkanah, with Hannah, took the young Samuel to Shiloh when he was weaned, and left him with EIi as their offering to Yahweh. They were blessed with three other sons and two daughters.

(2) The second son of Korah (Exodus 6:24), who escaped the fate of Korah, Dathan and Abiram (Numbers 26:11).

(3) One "next to the king" in Jerusalem in the time of Ahaz; slain by one Zichri of Ephraim in war with Pekah (2 Chronicles 28:7).

(4) One of the Korahites among David's "mighty men" (1 Chronicles 12:1, 6).

(5) A Levite, possibly the same as (2) above (1 Chronicles 6:23, 15, 36).

(6) Another Levite of the same line (1 Chronicles 6:26, 35).

(7) Another Levite, ancestor of Berechiah (1 Chronicles 9:16).

(8) Another Levite (if not the same as (4) above), one of the "doorkeepers for the ark" (1 Chronicles 15:23).

F. K. Farr

Strong's Hebrew

6444. Peninnah -- wife of Elkanah
... 6443, 6444. Peninnah. 6445 . wife of Elkanah. Transliteration: Peninnah
Phonetic Spelling: (pen-in-naw') Short Definition: Peninnah. ...
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6689. Tsuph -- ancestor of Elkanah and Samuel
... 6688, 6689. Tsuph. 6690 . ancestor of Elkanah and Samuel. Transliteration:
Tsuph Phonetic Spelling: (tsoof) Short Definition: Zuph. ...
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511. Elqanah -- "God has created," or "God has taken possession ...
... Transliteration: Elqanah Phonetic Spelling: (el-kaw-naw') Short Definition:
Elkanah. Word ... NASB Word Usage Elkanah (21). Elkanah. From ...
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Library

Samuel the Boy Prophet
... THE OLD TESTAMENT SAMUEL THE BOY PROPHET. Elkanah, a Zuphite of the hill country
of Ephraim, lived at Ramah with his two wives, Hannah and Peninnah. ...
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The History of Saul
... This history maketh mention that there was a man named Elkanah which had two wives,
that one was named Hannah, and the name of the second Peninnah. ...
/.../wells/bible stories and religious classics/the history of saul.htm

The Story of David, the Shepherd Boy
... THE STORY OF DAVID, THE SHEPHERD BOY. Living at Ramah, in the mountains
of Ephraim, there was a man whose name was Elkanah. He had ...
/.../marshall/the wonder book of bible stories/the story of david the.htm

Eli and Samuel.
... Elkanah went up to Shiloh yearly to offer sacrifice: and when Samuel was old enough,
Hannah went with her husband and took her little boy with her. ...
/.../anonymous/mother stories from the old testament/eli and samuel.htm

Samuel --The Child of the Temple.
... the temple. When Eli was high priest a man named Elkanah came up from Ramah
to worship, and Hannah his wife went with him. She was ...
/.../lathbury/childs story of the bible/chapter xvii samuelthe child of.htm

The First Kings.
... Samuel, the wonderful child of Elkanah and Hannah, given to them, like Jephthah
and Samson, as a special mark of divine favor, and who early entered the temple ...
/.../headley/half hours in bible lands volume 2/the first kings.htm

The Child Samuel.
... Now, at one time there lived in a little cottage on the hill of Ramah, not far from
what is now Jerusalem, a certain man named Elkanah, whose wife Hannah had a ...
/.../anonymous/children of the old testament/the child samuel.htm

Further Examples from the Old Testament in Favour of Fasting.
... [1054] Thus a God-ward fast is a work of reverential awe: and by its means also
Hannah the wife of Elkanah making suit, barren as she had been beforetime ...
/.../chapter vii further examples from the.htm

Hannah Praying Before the Lord.
... the Tabernacle at Shiloh. One day, Hannah, the wife of a priest named Elkanah,
came to the Tabernacle to worship. She was grieved ...
/.../mother stories from the old testament/hannah praying before the lord.htm

Fragment iv. 1. Take Me, O Samuel, the Heifer Brought to Bethlehem ...
... Footnotes: [1851] From a Discourse on Elkanah and Hannah. In Theodoret, Dial. I.,
bearing the title "Unchangeable" (atreptos); Works, vol. iv. p. 36. ...
/.../the extant works and fragments of hippolytus/fragment iv 1 take me.htm

Hitchcock's Bible Names Dictionary

Elkanah

God the zealous; the zeal of God

Easton's Bible Dictionary

God-created.

(1.) The second son of Korah (Exodus 6:24), or, according to 1 Chronicles 6:22, 23, more correctly his grandson.

(2.) Another Levite of the line of Heman the singer, although he does not seem to have performed any of the usual Levitical offices. He was father of Samuel the prophet (1 Chronicles 6:27, 34). He was "an Ephrathite" (1 Samuel 1:1, 4, 8), but lived at Ramah, a man of wealth and high position. He had two wives, Hannah, who was the mother of Samuel, and Peninnah.

Thesaurus

Elkanah (20 Occurrences)
...ELKANAH. ...Elkanah, with Hannah, took the young Samuel to Shiloh when he was
weaned, and left him with EIi as their offering to Yahweh. ...
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Elka'nah (20 Occurrences)
Elka'nah. Elkanah, Elka'nah. Elkiah . ... Exodus 6:24 And the sons of Korah: Assir,
and Elkanah, and Abiasaph; these are the families of the Korahites. (See RSV ...
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Zuph (3 Occurrences)
... Easton's Bible Dictionary Honeycomb, a Kohathite Levite, ancestor of Elkanah and
Samuel (1 Samuel 1:1); called also Zophai (1 Chronicles 6:26). Zuph, Land of. ...
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Jeroham (11 Occurrences)
... (1.) Father of Elkanah, and grandfather of the prophet Samuel (1 Samuel 1:1). ... 1
Chronicles 6:27 Eliab his son, Jeroham his son, Elkanah his son. ...
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Amasai (5 Occurrences)
... Burdensome. (1.) A Levite, son of Elkanah, of the ancestry of Samuel (1 Chronicles
6:25, 35). ... 1 Chronicles 6:25 The sons of Elkanah: Amasai, and Ahimoth. ...
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Hannah (13 Occurrences)
... Favour, grace, one of the wives of Elkanah the Levite, and the mother of Samuel
(1 Samuel 1; 2). Her home was at Ramathaim-zophim, whence she was wont every ...
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Jero'ham (10 Occurrences)
... 1 Samuel 1:1 Now there was a certain man of Ramathaim-zophim, of the hill-country
of Ephraim, and his name was Elkanah, the son of Jeroham, the son of Elihu ...
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Korahites (7 Occurrences)
... ra-its (qorchi), (beno qorach; in the King James Version appears also as Korhite,
Kohathite, Kore): This phrase is used to denote Assir and Elkanah and Abiasaph ...
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Ramah (38 Occurrences)
... the South. (4) Aramathaim: The home of Elkanah and Hannah, and the birthplace
of Samuel (1 Samuel 1:19; 1 Samuel 2:11, etc.). In ...
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Zophai (1 Occurrence)
... Zophai (1 Occurrence). 1 Chronicles 6:26 As for Elkanah, the sons of Elkanah: Zophai
his son, and Nahath his son, (WEB KJV JPS ASV BBE DBY WBS YLT NAS RSV NIV). ...
/z/zophai.htm - 7k

Bible Concordance

Elkanah (20 Occurrences)

Exodus 6:24 The sons of Korah: Assir, and Elkanah, and Abiasaph; these are the families of the Korahites.
(WEB KJV JPS ASV BBE DBY WBS YLT NAS NIV)

1 Samuel 1:1 Now there was a certain man of Ramathaim Zophim, of the hill country of Ephraim, and his name was Elkanah, the son of Jeroham, the son of Elihu, the son of Tohu, the son of Zuph, an Ephraimite:
(WEB KJV JPS ASV BBE DBY WBS YLT NAS NIV)

1 Samuel 1:4 When the day came that Elkanah sacrificed, he gave to Peninnah his wife, and to all her sons and her daughters, portions:
(WEB KJV JPS ASV BBE DBY WBS YLT NAS NIV)

1 Samuel 1:8 Elkanah her husband said to her, "Hannah, why do you weep? Why don't you eat? Why is your heart grieved? Am I not better to you than ten sons?"
(WEB KJV JPS ASV BBE DBY WBS YLT NAS NIV)

1 Samuel 1:19 They rose up in the morning early, and worshiped before Yahweh, and returned, and came to their house to Ramah: and Elkanah knew Hannah his wife; and Yahweh remembered her.
(WEB KJV JPS ASV BBE DBY WBS YLT NAS NIV)

1 Samuel 1:21 The man Elkanah, and all his house, went up to offer to Yahweh the yearly sacrifice, and his vow.
(WEB KJV JPS ASV BBE DBY WBS YLT NAS NIV)

1 Samuel 1:23 Elkanah her husband said to her, "Do what seems good to you. Wait until you have weaned him; only may Yahweh establish his word." So the woman waited and nursed her son, until she weaned him.
(WEB KJV JPS ASV BBE DBY WBS YLT NAS NIV)

1 Samuel 2:11 Elkanah went to Ramah to his house. The child did minister to Yahweh before Eli the priest.
(WEB KJV JPS ASV BBE DBY WBS YLT NAS NIV)

1 Samuel 2:20 Eli blessed Elkanah and his wife, and said, "Yahweh give you seed of this woman for the petition which was asked of Yahweh." They went to their own home.
(WEB KJV JPS ASV BBE DBY WBS YLT NAS NIV)

1 Chronicles 6:23 Elkanah his son, and Ebiasaph his son, and Assir his son,
(WEB KJV JPS ASV BBE DBY WBS YLT NAS NIV)

1 Chronicles 6:25 The sons of Elkanah: Amasai, and Ahimoth.
(WEB KJV JPS ASV BBE DBY WBS YLT NAS NIV)

1 Chronicles 6:26 As for Elkanah, the sons of Elkanah: Zophai his son, and Nahath his son,
(WEB KJV JPS ASV BBE DBY WBS YLT NAS NIV)

1 Chronicles 6:27 Eliab his son, Jeroham his son, Elkanah his son.
(WEB KJV JPS ASV BBE DBY WBS YLT NAS NIV)

1 Chronicles 6:34 the son of Elkanah, the son of Jeroham, the son of Eliel, the son of Toah,
(WEB KJV JPS ASV BBE DBY WBS YLT NAS NIV)

1 Chronicles 6:35 the son of Zuph, the son of Elkanah, the son of Mahath, the son of Amasai,
(WEB KJV JPS ASV BBE DBY WBS YLT NAS NIV)

1 Chronicles 6:36 the son of Elkanah, the son of Joel, the son of Azariah, the son of Zephaniah,
(WEB KJV JPS ASV BBE DBY WBS YLT NAS NIV)

1 Chronicles 9:16 and Obadiah the son of Shemaiah, the son of Galal, the son of Jeduthun, and Berechiah the son of Asa, the son of Elkanah, who lived in the villages of the Netophathites.
(WEB KJV JPS ASV BBE DBY WBS YLT NAS NIV)

1 Chronicles 12:6 Elkanah, and Isshiah, and Azarel, and Joezer, and Jashobeam, the Korahites,
(WEB KJV JPS ASV BBE DBY WBS YLT NAS NIV)

1 Chronicles 15:23 Berechiah and Elkanah were doorkeepers for the ark.
(WEB KJV JPS ASV BBE DBY WBS YLT NAS NIV)

2 Chronicles 28:7 Zichri, a mighty man of Ephraim, killed Maaseiah the king's son, and Azrikam the ruler of the house, and Elkanah who was next to the king.
(WEB KJV JPS ASV BBE DBY WBS YLT NAS NIV)

Subtopics

Elkanah

Elkanah or Elkonah

Elkanah: A Doorkeeper for the Ark, Perhaps Identical With Number Six Above

Elkanah: A Levite

Elkanah: A Levite Who Joined David at Ziklag

Elkanah: A Prince of Ahaz

Elkanah: Father of Samuel; a Descendant of the Preceding

Elkanah: Grandson of Korah

Elkanah: Possibly Identical With Number Three Above

Related Terms

Elka'nah (20 Occurrences)