Elioenai

Elioenai (meaning toward Jehovah are my eyes or to him are my fountains) is the name of several individuals in the Old Testament, primarily in post-exilic genealogies and records. Among them: (1) a son of Neariah in the Davidic genealogy of the post-exilic period (1 Chronicles 3:23–24), representing a continuation of the royal line after the exile; (2) a head of a Simeonite family (1 Chronicles 4:36); (3) a son of Becher of Benjamin (1 Chronicles 7:8); (4) a Levite gatekeeper, son of Meshelemiah (1 Chronicles 26:3); (5) a priest who had married a foreign woman in the time of Ezra (Ezra 10:22); (6) a Levite who had done the same (Ezra 10:27); and (7) a priest at the dedication of Jerusalem's wall under Nehemiah (Nehemiah 12:41). The name's expression of dependence and longing toward God made it a favored name in the post-exilic community.