ELIZAPHAN.1. Prince of the Kohathites (Num_3:30, 1Ch_15:8, 2Ch_29:13) = Elzaphan (Exo_6:22, Lev_10:4 P [Note: Priestly Narrative.] ). 2. Zebuluns representative for dividing the land (Num_34:25 P [Note: Priestly Narrative.] ).
Hastings' Dictionary of the Bible
Edited by James Hastings, D.D. Published in 1909
1. Num_3:30; his descendants took a lead in religion under David and Hezekiah (1Ch_15:8; 2Ch_29:13).
2. Prince of Zebulun, appointed by Moses to take part in apportioning Canaan (Num_34:25).
Fausset's Bible Dictionary
By Andrew Robert Fausset, co-Author of Jamieson, Fausset and Brown's 1888.
Eliz'aphan. (whom God protects).
1. A Levite, son of Uzziel, chief of the house of the Kohathites, at the time of the census, in the wilderness of Sinai. Num_3:30. (B.C. 1491).
2. Prince of the tribe of Zebulun. Num_34:25.
Smith's Bible Dictionary
By Dr. William Smith.Published in 1863
el-i-zā?fan, ē̇-liz?a-fan (אליצפן, 'ĕlı̄cāphān; Septuagint Ἐλεισαφάν, Eleisaphán, Ἐλισαφάν, Elisaphán, Ἐλισαφά, Elisaphá, Ἐλισαφάτ, Elisaphát, ?God has protected?; compare צפניה, cephanyāh, Zephaniah, ?Yah has protected,? and the Phoenician, צפנבעל, ?Baal has protected?):
(1) The son of Uzziel, the son of Kohath, and so a prince of the Levitical class of the Kohathites (Num_3:30; 1Ch_15:8; 2Ch_29:13). But in 1Ch_15:8; 2Ch_29:13 his class seems to be co?rdinate with that of the Kohathites. He is called Elzaphan in Exo_6:22; Lev_10:4.
(2) A ?prince? or chief of Zebulun, who represented that tribe in the division of the land (Num_34:25).
International Standard Bible Encyclopedia
PRINTER 1915.
Elizaphan
(Hebrew Elitsaphan', אלִֵיצָפָּן, whom God has protected; Sept. Ε᾿λισαφάυ), the name of two men. 1. Second son of Uzziel, and chief of the Kohathite Levites at the Exode (Numbers in, 30; Exo_6:22). B.C. 1657. He, with his elder brother, was directed by Moses to carry away the corpses of their sacrilegious cousins Nadab and Abihu (Lev_10:4). In these two last-cited passages the name is written contracted into ELZAPHAN SEE ELZAPHAN . His family was known and represented in the days of king David (1Ch_15:8), and took part in the revival of Hezekiah (2Ch_29:13).
2. Son of Parnoch, and phylarch (נָשִׂיא, prince") of the tribe of Zebulon at the Exode, being one of the men appointed to assist Moses in apportioning the land of Canaan.
CYCLOPEDIA OF BIBLICAL, THEOLOGICAL AND ECCLESIASTICAL
press 1895.