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