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[many El'paal] (Hebrews Elpa'al, àֶìְôִּ ì , in pause àֶìְôָּ ì , God is his wages; Sept. Á᾿ëöáÜë and Å᾿ëöáÜë ), the second named of the two sons of Shaharaim (a descendant of Benjamin residing in the region of Moab) by his wife Hushim, and progenitor of a numerous posterity (1Ch_8:11-12; 1Ch_8:18). B.C. cir. 1618. The Bene-Elpaal appear to have lived in the neighborhood of Lydda (Lod), and on the outposts of the Benjamite hills as far as Ajalon (8:12-18), near the Danite frontier.