Eleazar
Eleazar
ĕlēā´zər [key], in the Bible.
1 Son of Aaron.
2 Keeper of the Ark of the Covenant.
3 Mighty man of David.
4 Man in the genealogy in the first chapter of the Gospel of St. Matthew.
5 One of the chief martyrs in the Maccabean period. An old man, he refused to eat swine's flesh.
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