Second Temple Era · Tribe of Yehudah

Who Was Eleazar? — Genealogical link — seventh of the 'silent generation' named only in Matthew 1:15

אֶלְעָזָר
“God has helped”
Quick Facts
Hebrew Name
אֶלְעָזָר (Elazar)
Meaning
God has helped
Tribe
Yehudah
Era
Second Temple Era
Approx. Dates
Hellenistic period, 3rd century BCE (no independent dates recorded)
Father
Eliud
Role
Genealogical link — seventh of the 'silent generation' named only in Matthew 1:15
Appears In
Matthew 1:15
Source Confidence
Primary

The Story of Eleazar

Named only once in scripture, as the link between Eliud and Mattan: 'Eliud begat Elazar; and Elazar begat Mattan' (Matthew 1:15)

“'Eliud begat Elazar; and Elazar begat Mattan' (Matthew 1:15) — a name ('God has helped') shared with Aharon's priestly son, borne here by a man otherwise unknown”

Traditional note: See the general note on the 'silent generation' (Matthew 1:13–15) in 'aviud'. Disambiguation: this dataset's id is 'elazar-ben-eliud' rather than the unqualified 'elazar', because 'Elazar' ('God has helped') is also the name of Aharon's son and successor as high priest (Exodus 6:23, Numbers 20:28, Joshua 24:33), planned for this dataset's Levitical-line section per familytree.md's production_order step 3 and Part 3 section 2 (priestly succession). The two are different individuals from different tribes (this Elazar is of Yehudah, by genealogy; Aharon's son is Levitical) living over a millennium apart, who happen to share a common name — the same disambiguation pattern already used for 'tzadok-ben-azor' and 'menashe-melech-yehudah'.

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