Eliezer

This name is different from Eleazar.

Eliezer ( Heb. : "Help / Court of my God "or is a name carried by two characters in the Tanakh , and several sages of the Talmud.

Eliezer of Damascus ( Heb. : , was presented by the master he serves, Abraham , as his adopted son ( Genesis 15:2) ( Chouraqui translation ):

15.2. Abram said: "Adonai!

What will you give me, I myself will be stripped

and management of my house is a son of Damssq: Eliezer! "

According to common opinion, the servant anonymous Hayei Sarah (Genesis 24), who arranged the marriage of Isaac is this Eliezer. Rashi ^{Moshe ben Eliezer}

Eliezer was the second son of Moses and Zipporah , cited in Exodus (18:4): ( translation Chouraqui )

18. 2. Itro, stepfather Moshe takes Sipora, Moshe's wife,

After his dismissal,

3. and two son. Name one, Gershom

yes, he said: "I was a metic in a foreign land. "

4. Name one Eliezer: "Yes, the Elohim of my father to my aid,

it helped me against the sword of Pharaoh. "

Gershom and Eliezer were born when Moses, having fled from Egypt, had found refuge in Midian , and had married Zipporah, daughter of Jethro.

In the Talmud

Several Elders bear the name of Rabbi Eliezer.

• Where accuracy is made, it is Rabbi Eliezer ben Hyrcanus

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