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Lexicon :: Strong's H477 - 'ĕlîšāʿ

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אֱלִישָׁע
Transliteration
'ĕlîšāʿ
Pronunciation
el-ee-shaw'
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Part of Speech
proper masculine noun
Root Word (Etymology)
Strong’s Definitions

אֱלִישָׁע ʼĔlîyshâʻ, el-ee-shaw'; contracted for H474.; Elisha, the famous prophet:—Elisha.

KJV Translation Count — Total: 58x

The KJV translates Strong's H477 in the following manner: Elisha (58x).

KJV Translation Count — Total: 58x
The KJV translates Strong's H477 in the following manner: Elisha (58x).

  1. Elisha = "God is salvation"

    1. the great prophet who succeeded Elijah

Strong’s Definitions [?](Strong’s Definitions Legend)
אֱלִישָׁע ʼĔlîyshâʻ, el-ee-shaw'; contracted for H474.; Elisha, the famous prophet:—Elisha.
STRONGS H477: Abbreviations
† אֱלִישָׁע proper name, masculine (God is salvation, compare אֱלִישׁוּעַ, Sabean יתֿעאל DHMZMG 1883, 15) the prophet Elisha, the successor of Elijah 1 Kings 19:16 + 57 times all Kings; Ἐλισα, Ἐλισαιε Greek Version of the LXX; Ἐλισαιος Luke 4:27.
Brown-Driver-Briggs Hebrew and English Lexicon, Unabridged, Electronic Database.
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BLB Scripture Index of Brown-Driver-Briggs

1 Kings

19:16

Luke

4:27

H477

Word / Phrase / Strong's Search

Strong's Number H477 matches the Hebrew אֱלִישָׁע ('ĕlîšāʿ),
which occurs 58 times in 52 verses in the WLC Hebrew.

Page 1 / 2 (1Ki 19:16–2Ki 13:17)

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Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 19:16 - Also, anoint Jehu son of Nimshi king over Israel, and anoint Elisha son of Shaphat from Abel Meholah to succeed you as prophet.

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Unchecked Copy Box 1Ki 19:17

Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 19:17 - Jehu will put to death any who escape the sword of Hazael, and Elisha will put to death any who escape the sword of Jehu.

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Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 19:19 - So Elijah went from there and found Elisha son of Shaphat. He was plowing with twelve yoke of oxen, and he himself was driving the twelfth pair. Elijah went up to him and threw his cloak around him.

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Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 2:1 - When the LORD was about to take Elijah up to heaven in a whirlwind, Elijah and Elisha were on their way from Gilgal.

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Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 2:2 - Elijah said to Elisha, “Stay here; the LORD has sent me to Bethel.” But Elisha said, “As surely as the LORD lives and as you live, I will not leave you.” So they went down to Bethel.

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Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 2:3 - The company of the prophets at Bethel came out to Elisha and asked, “Do you know that the LORD is going to take your master from you today?” “Yes, I know,” Elisha replied, “so be quiet.”

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Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 2:4 - Then Elijah said to him, “Stay here, Elisha; the LORD has sent me to Jericho.” And he replied, “As surely as the LORD lives and as you live, I will not leave you.” So they went to Jericho.

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Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 2:5 - The company of the prophets at Jericho went up to Elisha and asked him, “Do you know that the LORD is going to take your master from you today?” “Yes, I know,” he replied, “so be quiet.”

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Unchecked Copy Box 2Ki 2:9

Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 2:9 - When they had crossed, Elijah said to Elisha, “Tell me, what can I do for you before I am taken from you?” “Let me inherit a double portion of your spirit,” Elisha replied.

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Unchecked Copy Box 2Ki 2:12

Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 2:12 - Elisha saw this and cried out, “My father! My father! The chariots and horsemen of Israel!” And Elisha saw him no more. Then he took hold of his garment and tore it in two.

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Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 2:14 - He took the cloak that had fallen from Elijah and struck the water with it. “Where now is the LORD, the God of Elijah?” he asked. When he struck the water, it divided to the right and to the left, and he crossed over.

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Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 2:15 - The company of the prophets from Jericho, who were watching, said, “The spirit of Elijah is resting on Elisha.” And they went to meet him and bowed to the ground before him.

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Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 2:19 - The people of the city said to Elisha, “Look, our lord, this town is well situated, as you can see, but the water is bad and the land is unproductive.”

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Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 2:22 - And the water has remained pure to this day, according to the word Elisha had spoken.

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Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 3:11 - But Jehoshaphat asked, “Is there no prophet of the LORD here, through whom we may inquire of the LORD?” An officer of the king of Israel answered, “Elisha son of Shaphat is here. He used to pour water on the hands of Elijah.[fn]”

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Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 3:13 - Elisha said to the king of Israel, “Why do you want to involve me? Go to the prophets of your father and the prophets of your mother.” “No,” the king of Israel answered, “because it was the LORD who called us three kings together to deliver us into the hands of Moab.”

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Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 3:14 - Elisha said, “As surely as the LORD Almighty lives, whom I serve, if I did not have respect for the presence of Jehoshaphat king of Judah, I would not pay any attention to you.

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Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 4:1 - The wife of a man from the company of the prophets cried out to Elisha, “Your servant my husband is dead, and you know that he revered the LORD. But now his creditor is coming to take my two boys as his slaves.”

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Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 4:2 - Elisha replied to her, “How can I help you? Tell me, what do you have in your house?” “Your servant has nothing there at all,” she said, “except a small jar of olive oil.”

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Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 4:8 - One day Elisha went to Shunem. And a well-to-do woman was there, who urged him to stay for a meal. So whenever he came by, he stopped there to eat.

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Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 4:17 - But the woman became pregnant, and the next year about that same time she gave birth to a son, just as Elisha had told her.

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Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 4:32 - When Elisha reached the house, there was the boy lying dead on his couch.

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Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 4:38 - Elisha returned to Gilgal and there was a famine in that region. While the company of the prophets was meeting with him, he said to his servant, “Put on the large pot and cook some stew for these prophets.”

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Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 5:8 - When Elisha the man of God heard that the king of Israel had torn his robes, he sent him this message: “Why have you torn your robes? Have the man come to me and he will know that there is a prophet in Israel.”

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Unchecked Copy Box 2Ki 5:9

Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 5:9 - So Naaman went with his horses and chariots and stopped at the door of Elisha’s house.

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Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 5:10 - Elisha sent a messenger to say to him, “Go, wash yourself seven times in the Jordan, and your flesh will be restored and you will be cleansed.”

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Unchecked Copy Box 2Ki 5:20

Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 5:20 - Gehazi, the servant of Elisha the man of God, said to himself, “My master was too easy on Naaman, this Aramean, by not accepting from him what he brought. As surely as the LORD lives, I will run after him and get something from him.”

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Unchecked Copy Box 2Ki 5:25

Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 5:25 - When he went in and stood before his master, Elisha asked him, “Where have you been, Gehazi?” “Your servant didn’t go anywhere,” Gehazi answered.

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Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 6:1 - The company of the prophets said to Elisha, “Look, the place where we meet with you is too small for us.

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Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 6:12 - “None of us, my lord the king,” said one of his officers, “but Elisha, the prophet who is in Israel, tells the king of Israel the very words you speak in your bedroom.”

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Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 6:17 - And Elisha prayed, “Open his eyes, LORD, so that he may see.” Then the LORD opened the servant’s eyes, and he looked and saw the hills full of horses and chariots of fire all around Elisha.

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Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 6:18 - As the enemy came down toward him, Elisha prayed to the LORD, “Strike this army with blindness.” So he struck them with blindness, as Elisha had asked.

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Unchecked Copy Box 2Ki 6:19

Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 6:19 - Elisha told them, “This is not the road and this is not the city. Follow me, and I will lead you to the man you are looking for.” And he led them to Samaria.

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Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 6:20 - After they entered the city, Elisha said, “LORD, open the eyes of these men so they can see.” Then the LORD opened their eyes and they looked, and there they were, inside Samaria.

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Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 6:21 - When the king of Israel saw them, he asked Elisha, “Shall I kill them, my father? Shall I kill them?”

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Unchecked Copy Box 2Ki 6:31

Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 6:31 - He said, “May God deal with me, be it ever so severely, if the head of Elisha son of Shaphat remains on his shoulders today!”

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Unchecked Copy Box 2Ki 6:32

Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 6:32 - Now Elisha was sitting in his house, and the elders were sitting with him. The king sent a messenger ahead, but before he arrived, Elisha said to the elders, “Don’t you see how this murderer is sending someone to cut off my head? Look, when the messenger comes, shut the door and hold it shut against him. Is not the sound of his master’s footsteps behind him?”

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Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 7:1 - Elisha replied, “Hear the word of the LORD. This is what the LORD says: About this time tomorrow, a seah[fn] of the finest flour will sell for a shekel[fn] and two seahs[fn] of barley for a shekel at the gate of Samaria.”

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Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 8:1 - Now Elisha had said to the woman whose son he had restored to life, “Go away with your family and stay for a while wherever you can, because the LORD has decreed a famine in the land that will last seven years.”

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Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 8:4 - The king was talking to Gehazi, the servant of the man of God, and had said, “Tell me about all the great things Elisha has done.”

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Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 8:5 - Just as Gehazi was telling the king how Elisha had restored the dead to life, the woman whose son Elisha had brought back to life came to appeal to the king for her house and land. Gehazi said, “This is the woman, my lord the king, and this is her son whom Elisha restored to life.”

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Unchecked Copy Box 2Ki 8:7

Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 8:7 - Elisha went to Damascus, and Ben-Hadad king of Aram was ill. When the king was told, “The man of God has come all the way up here,”

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Unchecked Copy Box 2Ki 8:10

Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 8:10 - Elisha answered, “Go and say to him, ‘You will certainly recover.’ Nevertheless,[fn] the LORD has revealed to me that he will in fact die.”

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Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 8:13 - Hazael said, “How could your servant, a mere dog, accomplish such a feat?” “The LORD has shown me that you will become king of Aram,” answered Elisha.

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Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 8:14 - Then Hazael left Elisha and returned to his master. When Ben-Hadad asked, “What did Elisha say to you?” Hazael replied, “He told me that you would certainly recover.”

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Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 9:1 - The prophet Elisha summoned a man from the company of the prophets and said to him, “Tuck your cloak into your belt, take this flask of olive oil with you and go to Ramoth Gilead.

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Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 13:14 - Now Elisha had been suffering from the illness from which he died. Jehoash king of Israel went down to see him and wept over him. “My father! My father!” he cried. “The chariots and horsemen of Israel!”

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Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 13:15 - Elisha said, “Get a bow and some arrows,” and he did so.

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Unchecked Copy Box 2Ki 13:16

Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 13:16 - “Take the bow in your hands,” he said to the king of Israel. When he had taken it, Elisha put his hands on the king’s hands.

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Unchecked Copy Box 2Ki 13:17

Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 13:17 - “Open the east window,” he said, and he opened it. “Shoot!” Elisha said, and he shot. “The LORD’s arrow of victory, the arrow of victory over Aram!” Elisha declared. “You will completely destroy the Arameans at Aphek.”

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