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Lexicon :: Strong's H5941 - ʿēlî

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עֵלִי
Transliteration
ʿēlî
Pronunciation
ay-lee'
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Part of Speech
proper masculine noun
Root Word (Etymology)
Strong’s Definitions

עֵלִי ʻÊlîy, ay-lee'; from H5927; lofty; Eli, an Israelite highpriest:—Eli.

KJV Translation Count — Total: 33x

The KJV translates Strong's H5941 in the following manner: Eli (33x).

KJV Translation Count — Total: 33x
The KJV translates Strong's H5941 in the following manner: Eli (33x).

  1. Eli = "ascension"

    1. descendant of Aaron through Ithamar and high priest and judge of Israel when Samuel entered service as a child

Strong’s Definitions [?](Strong’s Definitions Legend)
עֵלִי ʻÊlîy, ay-lee'; from H5927; lofty; Eli, an Israelite highpriest:—Eli.
STRONGS H5941: Abbreviations
עֵלִי proper name, masculine Eli, priest at Shiloh 1 Samuel 1:3 (+ 1 Samuel 1:3 Greek Version of the LXX Th Klo HPS), 1 Samuel 1:9; 1 Samuel 1:12 + 28 times 1-4 + 1 Samuel 14:3; 1 Kings 2:27; Ηλει.
Brown-Driver-Briggs Hebrew and English Lexicon, Unabridged, Electronic Database.
Copyright © 2002, 2003, 2006 by Biblesoft, Inc.
All rights reserved. Used by permission. BibleSoft.com

BLB Scripture Index of Brown-Driver-Briggs

1 Samuel

1:3; 1:3; 1:9; 1:12; 14:3

1 Kings

2:27

H5941

Word / Phrase / Strong's Search

Strong's Number H5941 matches the Hebrew עֵלִי (ʿēlî),
which occurs 33 times in 30 verses in the WLC Hebrew.

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Unchecked Copy Box 1Sa 1:3

Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 1:3 - Each year Elkanah would travel to Shiloh to worship and sacrifice to the LORD of Heaven’s Armies at the Tabernacle. The priests of the LORD at that time were the two sons of Eli—Hophni and Phinehas.

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Unchecked Copy Box 1Sa 1:9

Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 1:9 - Once after a sacrificial meal at Shiloh, Hannah got up and went to pray. Eli the priest was sitting at his customary place beside the entrance of the Tabernacle.[fn]

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Unchecked Copy Box 1Sa 1:12

Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 1:12 - As she was praying to the LORD, Eli watched her.

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Unchecked Copy Box 1Sa 1:13

Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 1:13 - Seeing her lips moving but hearing no sound, he thought she had been drinking.

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Unchecked Copy Box 1Sa 1:14

Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 1:14 - “Must you come here drunk?” he demanded. “Throw away your wine!”

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Unchecked Copy Box 1Sa 1:17

Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 1:17 - “In that case,” Eli said, “go in peace! May the God of Israel grant the request you have asked of him.”

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Unchecked Copy Box 1Sa 1:25

Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 1:25 - After sacrificing the bull, they brought the boy to Eli.

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Unchecked Copy Box 1Sa 2:11

Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 2:11 - Then Elkanah returned home to Ramah without Samuel. And the boy served the LORD by assisting Eli the priest.

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Unchecked Copy Box 1Sa 2:12

Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 2:12 - Now the sons of Eli were scoundrels who had no respect for the LORD

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Unchecked Copy Box 1Sa 2:20

Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 2:20 - Before they returned home, Eli would bless Elkanah and his wife and say, “May the LORD give you other children to take the place of this one she gave to the LORD.[fn]”

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Unchecked Copy Box 1Sa 2:22

Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 2:22 - Now Eli was very old, but he was aware of what his sons were doing to the people of Israel. He knew, for instance, that his sons were seducing the young women who assisted at the entrance of the Tabernacle.[fn]

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Unchecked Copy Box 1Sa 2:27

Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 2:27 - One day a man of God came to Eli and gave him this message from the LORD: “I revealed myself[fn] to your ancestors when the people of Israel were slaves in Egypt.

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Unchecked Copy Box 1Sa 3:1

Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 3:1 - Meanwhile, the boy Samuel served the LORD by assisting Eli. Now in those days messages from the LORD were very rare, and visions were quite uncommon.

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Unchecked Copy Box 1Sa 3:2

Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 3:2 - One night Eli, who was almost blind by now, had gone to bed.

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Unchecked Copy Box 1Sa 3:5

Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 3:5 - He got up and ran to Eli. “Here I am. Did you call me?”
“I didn’t call you,” Eli replied. “Go back to bed.” So he did.

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Unchecked Copy Box 1Sa 3:6

Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 3:6 - Then the LORD called out again, “Samuel!”
Again Samuel got up and went to Eli. “Here I am. Did you call me?”
“I didn’t call you, my son,” Eli said. “Go back to bed.”

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Unchecked Copy Box 1Sa 3:8

Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 3:8 - So the LORD called a third time, and once more Samuel got up and went to Eli. “Here I am. Did you call me?”
Then Eli realized it was the LORD who was calling the boy.

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Unchecked Copy Box 1Sa 3:9

Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 3:9 - So he said to Samuel, “Go and lie down again, and if someone calls again, say, ‘Speak, LORD, your servant is listening.’” So Samuel went back to bed.

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Unchecked Copy Box 1Sa 3:12

Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 3:12 - I am going to carry out all my threats against Eli and his family, from beginning to end.

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Unchecked Copy Box 1Sa 3:14

Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 3:14 - So I have vowed that the sins of Eli and his sons will never be forgiven by sacrifices or offerings.”

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Unchecked Copy Box 1Sa 3:15

Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 3:15 - Samuel stayed in bed until morning, then got up and opened the doors of the Tabernacle[fn] as usual. He was afraid to tell Eli what the LORD had said to him.

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Unchecked Copy Box 1Sa 3:16

Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 3:16 - But Eli called out to him, “Samuel, my son.”
“Here I am,” Samuel replied.

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Unchecked Copy Box 1Sa 4:4

Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 4:4 - So they sent men to Shiloh to bring the Ark of the Covenant of the LORD of Heaven’s Armies, who is enthroned between the cherubim. Hophni and Phinehas, the sons of Eli, were also there with the Ark of the Covenant of God.

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Unchecked Copy Box 1Sa 4:11

Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 4:11 - The Ark of God was captured, and Hophni and Phinehas, the two sons of Eli, were killed.

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Unchecked Copy Box 1Sa 4:13

Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 4:13 - Eli was waiting beside the road to hear the news of the battle, for his heart trembled for the safety of the Ark of God. When the messenger arrived and told what had happened, an outcry resounded throughout the town.

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Unchecked Copy Box 1Sa 4:14

Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 4:14 - “What is all the noise about?” Eli asked.
The messenger rushed over to Eli,

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Unchecked Copy Box 1Sa 4:15

Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 4:15 - who was ninety-eight years old and blind.

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Unchecked Copy Box 1Sa 4:16

Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 4:16 - He said to Eli, “I have just come from the battlefield—I was there this very day.”
“What happened, my son?” Eli demanded.

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Unchecked Copy Box 1Sa 14:3

Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 14:3 - Among Saul’s men was Ahijah the priest, who was wearing the ephod, the priestly vest. Ahijah was the son of Ichabod’s brother Ahitub, son of Phinehas, son of Eli, the priest of the LORD who had served at Shiloh.
No one realized that Jonathan had left the Israelite camp.

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Unchecked Copy Box 1Ki 2:27

Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 2:27 - So Solomon deposed Abiathar from his position as priest of the LORD, thereby fulfilling the prophecy the LORD had given at Shiloh concerning the descendants of Eli.
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