Lockyer's All the Men of the Bible – Elihoenai, Elioenai
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Elihoenai, Elioenai

Elihoenai, Elioenai [Ĕlĭho ē'na ī, Ēlĭ o ē'na ī]—to jehovah are mine eyes.

  1. A son of Neariah of the family of David (1 Chron. 3:23, 24).
  2. The head of a family of Simeon (1 Chron. 4:36).
  3. The head of one of the families of the sons of Becher, son of Benjamin (1 Chron. 7:8).
  4. A son of Pashur, a priest who put away his foreign wife (Ezra 10:22). Perhaps the same person as the one mentioned in Nehemiah 12:41.
  5. A son of Zattu who married a foreign wife (Ezra 10:27).
  6. A priest, perhaps the same person as No. 4 (Neh. 12:41).
  7. The seventh son of Meshelemiah, the son of Kore (1 Chron. 26:3). Also given as Elihoenai.
  8. A descendant of Pahath Moab who returned with Ezra in Artaxerxes'time (Ezra 8:4).