Person New Testament
Eleazar
Eleazar was an ancestor of Jesus, the son of Eliud and father of Matthan. Mentioned once in Scripture, at Matthew 1:15.
Why it matters. Ancestor of Jesus, son of Eliud; father of Matthan
- Primary passages
- Last reviewed
- 2026-08-30 by the FaithGraph team
About Eleazar
Eleazar is mentioned in Mat.1.15 in the genealogy of Jesus Christ. He was the son of Eliud and the father of Matthan. Eleazar is listed as part of the lineage from Abraham to Joseph, the husband of Mary, mother of Jesus.
Description from STEPBible TIPNR (Tyndale House, Cambridge), CC BY 4.0, lightly reformatted. This is background reference material, not Scripture and not a FaithGraph editorial claim.
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Family
Family links from STEPBible TIPNR (CC BY 4.0). Where the dataset marks an identification as uncertain, the mark is kept. Matthew and Luke give different genealogies for Jesus; see the Lineage page, which never merges them.
Appears in Scripture
Named in 1 verse across 1 book. Occurrence data from STEPBible TIPNR (CC BY 4.0); references only, no translation text.
Matthew (1 verse)