# H476 אֱלִישָׁמָע

אֱלִישָׁמָע (ʼĔlîyshâmâʻ), Strong’s H476: Elishama, the name of seven Israelites KJV: Elishama.. Occurs 17 times.

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*ʼĔlîyshâmâʻ* — Elishama, the name of seven Israelites

KJV: Elishama.

Built from [אֵל ʼêl](https://besorah.bible/word/H410) (strength) + [שָׁמַע shâmaʻ](https://besorah.bible/word/H8085) (to hear intelligently) — means “God of hearing”

Occurs 17 times.

## Brown–Driver–Briggs
- אֱלִישָׁמָע (God has heard)
- a chief of Ephraim
- b son of David
- c scribe of Jehoiakim
- d one of the royal seed
- e a man of Judah
- f a priest

## Where it occurs
- [Numbers 1:10](https://besorah.bible/tanakh/numbers/1?v=10) — Of the children of Joseph: of Ephraim: Elishama the son of Ammihud; of Manasseh: Gamaliel the son of Pedahzur.
- [Numbers 2:18](https://besorah.bible/tanakh/numbers/2?v=18) — “On the west side shall be the standard of the camp of Ephraim according to their divisions. The prince of the children…
- [Numbers 7:48](https://besorah.bible/tanakh/numbers/7?v=48) — On the seventh day Elishama the son of Ammihud, prince of the children of Ephraim,
- [Numbers 7:53](https://besorah.bible/tanakh/numbers/7?v=53) — and for the sacrifice of peace offerings, two head of cattle, five rams, five male goats, and five male lambs a year…
- [Numbers 10:22](https://besorah.bible/tanakh/numbers/10?v=22) — The standard of the camp of the children of Ephraim set forward according to their armies. Elishama the son of Ammihud…
- [2 Samuel 5:16](https://besorah.bible/tanakh/2-samuel/5?v=16) — Elishama, Eliada, and Eliphelet.
- [2 Kings 25:25](https://besorah.bible/tanakh/2-kings/25?v=25) — But in the seventh month, Ishmael the son of Nethaniah, the son of Elishama, of the royal offspring came, and ten men…
- [Jeremiah 36:12](https://besorah.bible/tanakh/jeremiah/36?v=12) — he went down into the king’s house, into the scribe’s room; and behold, all the princes were sitting there, Elishama…
- [Jeremiah 36:20](https://besorah.bible/tanakh/jeremiah/36?v=20) — They went in to the king into the court, but they had laid up the scroll in the room of Elishama the scribe. Then they…
- [Jeremiah 36:21](https://besorah.bible/tanakh/jeremiah/36?v=21) — So the king sent Jehudi to get the scroll, and he took it out of the room of Elishama the scribe. Jehudi read it in the…