Person

Eli

עֵלִי

Ascended; lofty. Priest at Shiloh.

Eli is the priest at Shiloh who raised Samuel. His house was judged for the sins of his sons.

Strong’s

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עֵלִי H5941

ʻÊlîy · ay-lee'

Eli, an Israelite highpriest

from H5927 (עָלָה); lofty;

KJV glosses: Eli.

Brown-Driver-Briggs

Francis Brown, S. R. Driver, and Charles A. Briggs, A Hebrew and English Lexicon of the Old Testament (1906). Public-domain digital text.

עֵלִי H5941

Biblical Hebrew

עֵלִי proper name, masculine Eli, priest at Shiloh 1Sam 1:3 ( + v1Sam 1:3 ᵐ5 Th Klo HPS), v1Sam 1:9 v1Sam 1:12 + 28 t. 1-4 + 1Sam 14:3; 1Kgs 2:27 Ηλει.