Eliashib
the name means God will restore Strong's Lexicon
Eliashib, a priest, had ties to Tobiah the Ammonite and prepared a room for him in the temple courts.
From Easton's Bible Dictionary
Whom God will restore. (1.) A priest, head of one of the courses of the priests of the time of David (1 Chr. 24:12).
Easton's Illustrated Bible Dictionary, 1897 — public domain, quoted in full and unedited.
First named at Nehemiah 13:4.
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Verses that name Eliashib
- Nehemiah 13:4 Now before this, Eliashib the priest, a relative of Tobiah, had been put in charge of the storerooms of the house of our God
- Nehemiah 13:7 to return to Jerusalem. Then I discovered the evil that Eliashib had done on behalf of Tobiah by providing him a room in the courts of the house of God.