| Biblical Name | Meaning or History | Gender |
Eden
עֵדֶן | Pleasure. |   |
Ehud
אֵהוּד | Ehud, son of Gera, was one of the judges of Israel, who killed Eglon, the king of Moab. | |
Elah (Ela)
אֵלָה | A girl’s name (in the Bible: a boy’s name). Pistachia tree. | |
Elam (Eilam)
עֵילָם | Aram is the name of a country in the Mesopotamia region. | |
Eldad
אֶלְדָּד | The name of a person of the time when the Israelites wandered in the desert. | |
Elead (Elad, El’ad)
אֶלְעָד | The name may be composed of the words אל (el, God) and עד (ad, “eternity”). | |
Eleazar (Elazar, El'azar)
אֶלְעָזָר | The meaning of the name "Elazar" is "God (אֵל, el) helped (עָזַר, azar)". | |
Elhanan (Elchanan)
אֶלְחָנָן | Two of King David's heros are called Elhanan. | |
Eli (2)
עֵלִי | Eli is the name of a high priest in Shiloh. | |
Eliab (Eliav, Eli'av)
אֱלִיאָב | The name is composed of the words אלי (eli, "my God") and אב (av, "father"). | |
Eliada (Elyada)
אֶלְיָדָע | The meaning of the name is "God (אֵל) knew (יָדַע)". | |
Eliel (Eli'el)
אֱלִיאֵל | The name is composed of the words אלי (eli, "my God") and אל (el, "God"). | |
Eliezer (Eli’ezer)
אֵלִיעֶזֶר | The name is composed of the words אלי (eli, "my God") and עזר (ezer, "help"). | |
Elijah (Eliyahu)
אֵלִיָּהוּ | The name is composed of the word אלי (eli, “my God”) and the letters יהו (the name of God). | |
Elimelech
אֱלִימֶלֶךְ | The name is composed of the words אלי (eli, "my God") and מלך (melech, "king"). | |
Elisha
אֱלִישָׁע | Elisha the son of Shaphat was one of the prophets of Israel. | |
Elisheba (Elisheva)
אֱלִישֶׁבַע | The name is composed of אלי (eli, “my God”) and שבע (sheva, “seven” – a number that may express the notion of “many”). Another explanation for שבע may relate it to the verb להישבע (lehishava, “to take an oath”). | |
Elizur (Elitzur, Elitsur)
אֱלִיצוּר | The meaning of the name is "my God (אלי, eli) is a rock (צוּר, Tzur)". | |
Elkanah (Elkana)
אֶלְקָנָה | The meaning of the name is "God (אֵל) bought (קָנָה)". | |
Elnathan (Elnatan)
אֶלְנָתָן | The meaning of the name is "God (אֵל) gave (נָתַן)". | |
Elon (Eylon, Eilon)
אֵילוֹן | Elon was a city in the land of Dan: "And Elon and Thimnathah and Ekron" (Jushua 19, 43). Today, Eilon is the name of a kibbutz in Glilee. | |
Enan (Einan)
עֵינָן | Having big eyes; curious. | |
Enoch (Chanoch)
חֲנוֹךְ | There are few people in the Bible called Enoch. The first of them is Cain's son. | |
Ephraim (Efrayim, Efra’im)
אֶפְרַיִם | According to the explanation in the Bible, the name אפרים (Ephraim) is derived of the verb להפרות (lehafrot, “fertilize”, “inseminate”). | |
Ephrath (Efrat)
אֶפְרָת | Ephrath is the other name of Beth-Lehem: "And Rachel died and was buried in the way to Ephrath, which is Beth-Lehem." Genesis 35, 19 | |
Eran
עֵרָן | Eran is the name of a man of the tribe of Ephraim. | |
Eshcol (Eshkol)
אֶשְׁכּוֹל | bunch, cluster (of grapes, etc.). Eshcol is also a name of a brook near Hebron: "And they came unto the brook of Eshcol and cut down from thence a branch with one cluster of grapes, and they bare it between two upon a staff" (Numbers 13, 23). | |
Esther (Ester)
אֶסְתֵּר | Queen Esther was King Ahasuerus’s wife. | |
Ethan (Eitan, Eytan)
אֵיתָן | Strong, steadfast, firm. The adjective "איתן" (eitan) refers to a stream whose water flows all year round. | |
Eve (Chava, Hava)
חַוָּה | The root of the name is ח' י' ה', denoting “life”. According to the bible, Eve was thus named for being “the mother of all living”, i.e. of all mankind. | |
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