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ē̇-lı̄´a-shib (×ליש×יב, 'elyaÌ„shı̄bh, “God restoresâ€):
(1) A descendant of David ().
(2) Head of the eleventh course of priests ().
(3) The high priest in the time of Nehemiah. He, with his brethren the priests, helped in the rebuilding of the wall (). But later he was “allied unto Tobiah†the Ammonite () and allowed that enemy of Nehemiah the use of a great chamber in the temple (); and one of his grandsons, a son of Joiada, married a daughter of Sanballat the Horonite and was for this expelled from the community by Nehemiah (). See SANBALLAT.
(4, 5, 6) three Israelites, one a “singer,†who had married foreign wives (, , ).
(7) Father of Jehohanan (); probably identical with (3) above. Called Eliasib in 1 Esdras 9:1.