Elihu
Hebrew
"Jehovah is God"Share
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Updated Fri Apr 19 2024
Elihu Origin and Meaning
The name Elihu is a boy's name of Hebrew origin meaning "Jehovah is God".
Rarely used in the last two centuries, but might be worth dusting off and holding up to the light.
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Famous People Named Elihu
- Elihua young man in the Book of Job
- Elihuof the tribe of Manasseh, follower of David (1 Chr. 12:20)
- Elihuson of Shemaiah, Levite porter (1 Chr. 26:7)
- Elihu Benjamin Washburne25th US Secretary of State
- Elihu RootUS Senator and 38th US Secretary of State
- Elihu YaleGovernor of the British East India Company; Welsh namesake of Yale University
- Elihu ThomsonEnglish,American engineer and inventor
- Elihu BurrittAmerican diplomat and philanthropist
- Elihu VedderAmerican symbolist painter
- Elihu LauterpachtBritish academic and lawyer
- Elihu Mason HarrisAmerican politician from California
Elihu in Pop Culture
- Elihu Smailsjudge in film "Caddyshack"
- Elihu Willssoncharacter in Dashiell Hammett's "Red Harvest"
- Elihu Yalethe Atlanta Police Chief in Tom Wolfe's "A Man in Full"
- Elihu "Sam" Nivenscharacter in Robert A. Heinlein's The Puppet Masters
- Elihu Whipplecharacter in the H. P. Lovecraft short story "The Shunned House"
- Elihu Hoopesamnesiac character in Joyce Carol Oates' The Man Without a Shadow