Eliezer
Elieser (Hebrew אֱלִיעֶזֶר, to clarify the pronunciation also Eliëser or Eliéser ) is a Hebrew male given name.
Meaning and variants
The name means 'my God is help'.
Name bearer
Biblical persons:
- Eliezer , son of Moses and Zippora ( Ex 18.4 EU ; 1 Chr 23.15–17 EU )
- Eliezer of Damascus , Abraham's house slave ( Gen 15.2 EU )
- Eliezer , prophet and son of Dodawas from Marescha ( 2 Chr 20.37 EU )
- Eliezer (Levit) , Jewish returnees from Babylon, who had to cast his foreign wife at the behest of Ezra ( Ezra 10.23 EU )
Jewish scholars:
- Eliezer ben Hyrcanus , ancient Jewish scholar
- Eliezer ben Jacob the Elder , Tannait of the 1st century AD
- Eliezer ben Jacob the Younger , Tannait of the 2nd century AD
- Eliezer ben Jose ha-Gelili , son of Jose the Galilean, Tannait the 3rd / 4th. generation
- Eliezer ben Nathan from Mainz (~ 1100–1150), halachist and liturgical poet
First name:
- Eleasar Fleckeles (also Elieser b. David Fleckeles ; 1754–1826), rabbi, preacher and Talmudist
- Eliezer Ben-Jehuda (1858–1922), Russian-Palestinian journalist and dictionary author
- Elieser Kaplan (1891–1952), Zionist labor leader and Israeli politician
- Elieser Steinbarg (1880–1932), Jewish writer
- Elieser Sukenik (1889–1953), Israeli archaeologist
- Eliezer Sussmann (17th century), synagogue painter
- Lesser Ury (1861–1931), German-Jewish painter
Middle name:
- Marcus Élieser Bloch (1723–1799), German naturalist
See also
Commons : Eliezer - collection of images, videos and audio files