Elasah

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The origin of the name Elasah is Hebrew

This is how Elasah is written in Hebrew:

אֶלְעָשָֹה‘El`asah

The biblical meaning of the name Elasah is:

“God has made”

“the doings of God”

 

In The Bible:

Elasah was

(1*.) A priest in the time of Ezra who had married a Gentile wife

(2*.) Son of Shaphan, one of the two men who were sent on a mission by King Zedekiah to Nebuchadnezzar at Babylon

 

 

*Smith’s Bible Dictionary

The name Elasah appears in the (KJV) bible in the following verses:

Ezra 10:22
And of the sons of Pashur; Elioenai, Maaseiah, Ishmael, Nethaneel, Jozabad, and אֶלְעָשָֹה (Elasah).

Jeremiah 29:3
By the hand of אֶלְעָשָֹה (Elasah) the son of Shaphan, and Gemariah the son of Hilkiah, (whom Zedekiah king of Judah sent unto Babylon to Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon) saying,