1. Elkanah (proper name) — The proper noun Elkanah (אֶלְקָנָה), meaning 'God has acquired/created', referring to several individuals in the Hebrew Bible, most prominently the father of Samuel (1 Sam 1-2) and various Levites in Chronicles. All 21 occurrences across languages render this consistently as a personal name: eng 'Elkanah/Elqanah', spa 'Elcaná/Elcana', hin 'एलकाना/एल्कानाह', arb 'أَلْقَانَة/أَلقانَة', kor '엘가나', swa 'Elkana'. The two clusters differ only in the presence of the conjunctive waw prefix (וְ), a grammatical particle that does not alter the referent or semantic content. 21×
AR["أَلقانَة","أَلْقَانَة","أَلْقَانَةَ","وَأَلْقَانَةُ"]·ben["ইলকানা","ইল্কানা","ইল্কানাকে","ইল্কানার","ইল্কানার","ও-ইলকানা"]·DE["Elkana","und-Elkanah"]·EN["Elkanah","Elqanah","and-Elkanah"]·FR["Elkana","[אלקנה]","et-Elkanah"]·heb["אלקנה","ו-אלקנה"]·HI["एलकाना","एलकानाह","एल्कानाह-को","और-एलकाना"]·ID["Elkana","dan-Elkana"]·IT["Elcana","Elkana","e-Elkanah"]·jav["Elkana","lan-Elkana","Èlkana","Élkana"]·KO["그리고-엘가나","엘가나","엘가나-의","엘가나를"]·PT["'Elqanah","Elkanah","Elqanah","e-'Elqanah"]·RU["Елкана","Елкану","Элкана","Элкану","Элканы","Элькана","Эльканы","и-Элькана"]·ES["Elcana","Elcaná","y-Elkanah"]·SW["Elkana","na-Elkana"]·TR["Elkana","Elkana'nın","Elkana'yı","ve-Elkana"]·urd["القانہ","القانہ-نے","القانہ-کا","القانہ-کے","الکانہ","اور-القانہ","اِلقانہ"]
Exod 6:24, 1 Sam 1:1, 1 Sam 1:4, 1 Sam 1:8, 1 Sam 1:19, 1 Sam 1:21, 1 Sam 1:23, 1 Sam 2:11, 1 Sam 2:20, 1 Chr 6:23, 1 Chr 6:25, 1 Chr 6:26 (+9 more)
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BDB / Lexicon Reference
אֶלְקָנָה n.pr.m. (God has created, or taken possession) a. father of Samuel 1 S 1–2 (8 times) 1 Ch 6:12, 19. b. son of Korah Ex 6:24. c. a ruler in Jerusalem in the time of Ahaz 2 Ch 28:7. d. one of David’s warriors 1 Ch 12:6. e. several Levites (α) 1 Ch 6:8, 10, 21 (β) v 11, 20 (γ) 9:16 (δ) 15:23.