Bible Person
Meaning: God hearing · Male · 3 cross references
This Elishama entry refers to the royal secretary or chamber figure in Jeremiah 36, not the Ephraimite prince already separately overridden. He belongs to the scribal and courtly setting in which Jeremiah's scroll is read and contested. First appears in Jer 36:12.1
AI summary: This Elishama matters because the cross references place him within the bureaucratic environment surrounding the reading and handling of Jeremiah's scroll. His chamber and proximity to the officials help frame the political stakes of prophetic writing in Jehoiakim's day. Taken together, the material presents this Elishama as a court figure whose setting becomes part of Jeremiah's confrontation with royal power.1
Central Figure
Elishama
Meaning: God hearing
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Alistair de Blacquiere-Clarkson, “ai-BIBLE Bible Names JSON Factsheet Aggregating Material from Smith’s Bible Dictionary & Hitcocks’s New and Complete Analysis of the Bible.” ai-BIBLE electronic edition, version 1.0.
M.G.Easton, Illustrated Bible Dictionary, ai-BIBLE electronic edition, version 1.0.
Robert Rouse, “Theographic Bible Information,” Theographic-Bible-Metadata, 2020, https://github.com/robertrouse/theographic-bible-metadata.