Eleazar

2 definitions found

From Easton's 1897 Bible Dictionary [easton]:

  Eleazar
     God has helped. (1.) The third son of Aaron (Ex. 6:23). His
     wife, a daughter of Putiel, bore him Phinehas (Ex. 6:25). After
     the death of Nadab and Abihu (Lev. 10:12; Num. 3:4) he was
     appointed to the charge of the sanctuary (Num. 3:32). On Mount
     Hor he was clothed with the sacred vestments, which Moses took


     from off his brother Aaron and put upon him as successor to his
     father in the high priest's office, which he held for more than
     twenty years (Num. 20:25-29). He took part with Moses in
     numbering the people (26:3, 4), and assisted at the inauguration
     of Joshua. He assisted in the distribution of the land after the
     conquest (Josh. 14:1). The high-priesthood remained in his
     family till the time of Eli, into whose family it passed, till
     it was restored to the family of Eleazar in the person of Zadok
     (1 Sam. 2:35; comp. 1 Kings 2:27). "And Eleazar the son of Aaron
     died; and they buried him in a hill that pertained to Phinehas
     his son" (Josh. 24:33). The word here rendered "hill" is Gibeah,
     the name of several towns in Palestine which were generally on
     or near a hill. The words may be more suitably rendered, "They
     buried him in Gibeah of Phinehas", i.e., in the city of
     Phinehas, which has been identified, in accordance with Jewish
     and Samaritan traditions, with Kefr Ghuweirah='Awertah, about 7
     miles north of Shiloh, and a few miles south-east of Nablus.
     "His tomb is still shown there, overshadowed by venerable
     terebinths." Others, however, have identified it with the
     village of Gaba or Gebena of Eusebius, the modern Khurbet Jibia,
     5 miles north of Guphna towards Nablus.
     
       (2.) An inhabitant of Kirjath-jearim who was "sanctified" to
     take charge of the ark, although not allowed to touch it, while
     it remained in the house of his father Abinadab (1 Sam. 7:1, 2;
     comp. Num. 3:31; 4:15).
     
       (3.) The son of Dodo the Ahohite, of the tribe of Benjamin,
     one of the three most eminent of David's thirty-seven heroes (1
     Chr. 11:12) who broke through the Philistine host and brought
     him water from the well of Bethlehem (2 Sam. 23:9, 16).
     
       (4.) A son of Phinehas associated with the priests in taking
     charge of the sacred vessels brought back to Jerusalem after the
     Exile (Ezra 8:33).
     
       (5.) A Levite of the family of Merari (1 Chr. 23:21, 22).
     

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

  Eleazar, help of God, court of God