'Eliashib' definitions:
Definition of 'eliashib'
From: Easton
- Eliashib whom God will restore.
- A priest, head of one of the courses of the priests of the time of David (1 Chr. 24:12).
- A high priest in the time of Ezra and Nehemiah (Neh. 12:22, 23). He rebuilt the eastern city wall (3:1), his own mansion being in that quarter, on the ridge Ophel (3:20, 21). His indulgence of Tobiah the Ammonite provoked the indignation of Nehemiah (13:4, 7).
Definition of 'eliashib'
From: Hitchcock
- Eliashib, the God of conversion