Eliezer

Eliezer (Hebrew אֱלִיעֶזֶר, to clarify the pronunciation also Eliezer Eliezer or ) is a Hebrew male first name.

Meaning and variants

The name means My God is help ".

• German transmission of romance is God Help
• Variants: Eliezer, Eleazar, Eleazar, Lesser

Bearers of the name

Biblical people:

• Eliezer, son of Moses and Zipporah the (Ex 18.4; 1 Ch 23,15.17 )
• Eliezer of Damascus, Abraham's house slave (Gen 15:2)
• Eliezer, Prophet and son Dodavah from Mareshah ( 2 Chr 20,37 )
• Eliezer ( Levite ), Jewish returnees from Babylon, which violated his foreign wife at the behest of Ezra had (Ezra 10:23)

Jewish scholars:

• Eliezer ben Hyrcanus, a Jewish scholar of antiquity
• 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 3 / 4 generation
• Eliezer ben Nathan of Mainz (~ 1100-1150 ), Halachist and liturgical poet

First name:

• Eleazar Fleckeles (also Eliezer b David Fleckeles; . 1754-1826 ), rabbi, preacher, and Talmudist
• Eliezer Ben- Yehuda (1858-1922), Russian- Palestinian journalist and dictionary author
• Eliezer Kaplan (1891-1952), Zionist workers' leader and Israeli politician
• Eliezer stone Barg (1880-1932), Jewish writer
• Eliezer Sukenik (1889-1953), Israeli archaeologist
• Eliezer Sussmann (17 century), painter synagogue
• Lesser Ury (1861-1931), German - Jewish painter

Second name:

• Marcus Eliezer Bloch (1723-1799), German naturalist