Man living at the time of Exile and Return
This is one of the ancestors of Joseph, the husband of Mary, the mother of Jesus.
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This unnamed person is inserted to increase the number of generations in Jesus' genealogy as recorded in Matthew to become the same as the number of generations in Luke. Matthew is known to deliberately miss out some individuals (kings Ahaziah, Joash and Amaziah) so it is likely he also missed out others, in order to create three sets of 14 generations (Mat.1.17).
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1 verse in 1 book · English text: BSB (change it from the menu at the top) · Strong’s G0000
Eliud was the father of Eleazar, Eleazar the father of Matthan, Matthan the father of Jacob,
Names, family links and references: STEPBible TIPNR (Tyndale House Cambridge, CC BY 4.0). Short descriptions were drafted with AI assistance by STEPBible. Family links follow STEPBible’s scholarly decisions where genealogies are ambiguous.