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Elienai

Elienai was a Benjamite, a descendant of Shimei. Mentioned once in Scripture, at 1 Chronicles 8:20.

Why it matters. A Benjamite descendant of Shimei.

Primary passages
Last reviewed
2026-08-30 by the FaithGraph team

About Elienai

Elienai was a Benjamite mentioned in the genealogy of Shimei (1Ch.8.20). He was one of the descendants of Benjamin, the youngest son of Israel (or 'Jacob'). The genealogy in 1Chronicles 8 lists the heads of families and clans in the tribe of Benjamin.

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.

Parents
Shimei

Appears in Scripture

Named in 1 verse across 1 book. Occurrence data from STEPBible TIPNR (CC BY 4.0); references only, no translation text.

  • 1 Chronicles (1 verse)

    8:20

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