Eliahba

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The origin of the name Eliahba is Hebrew

 

This is how Eliahba is written in Hebrew:

אֶלְיַחְבָּא ‘Elyachba’

 

The biblical meaning of the name Eliahba is:

“my God the Father”

“whom God hides”

 

In The Bible:

Eliahba was:

one of the thirty of David’s guard, One of David’s heroes.  (B.C. 1046.)*

 

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

2 Samuel 23:32
אֶלְיַחְבָּא (Eliahba) the Shaalbonite, of the sons of Jashen, Jonathan,

1 Chronicles 11:33
Azmaveth the Baharumite, אֶלְיַחְבָּא (Eliahba) the Shaalbonite,

 

*Smith’s Bible Dictionary
Nave’s Topical Bible.