Bible Person
Meaning: God is my praise · Male · 2 cross references
Eliud is a post-exilic ancestor in Matthew's genealogy of Jesus. He belongs to the quiet chain of names through which the gospel traces continuity from Israel's past to the Messiah. First appears in Matt 1:14.1
AI summary: Eliud matters because the cross references place him within Matthew's compressed but theologically charged genealogy. Though no narrative episode is attached to him, his inclusion shows that the messianic story is built through many otherwise obscure generations held together by providence. Taken together, the material presents Eliud as a necessary genealogical link in the line leading to Christ.1
Central Figure
Eliud
Meaning: God is my praise
Children
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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.