Eldad

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From Easton's 1897 Bible Dictionary [easton]:

  Eldad
     whom God has loved, one of the seventy elders whom Moses
     appointed (Num. 11:26, 27) to administer justice among the
     people. He, with Medad, prophesied in the camp instead of going
     with the rest to the tabernacle, as Moses had commanded. This
     incident was announced to Moses by Joshua, who thought their


     conduct in this respect irregular. Moses replied, "Enviest thou
     for my sake? would God that all the Lord's people were prophets"
     (Num. 11:24-30; comp. Mark 9:38; Luke 9:49).
     

From Hitchcock's Bible Names Dictionary (late 1800's) [hitchcock]:

  Eldad, favored of God; love of God