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Person New Testament

Eliezer

Eliezer was an ancestor of Jesus Christ. Mentioned once in Scripture, at Luke 3:29.

Why it matters. An ancestor of Jesus Christ.

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

About Eliezer

Eliezer is mentioned in the genealogy of Jesus Christ in the Gospel of Luke (Luk.3.29). He was an ancestor of Jesus, listed in the lineage from David to Joseph, the husband of Mary. The genealogy in Luke traces Jesus' ancestry through his mother Mary.

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
Jorim
Children
Joshua

Appears in Scripture

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

Record type: Person. FaithGraph explanations on this page are editorial and are not Scripture.