Elnathan

El-nay´thuhn; Heb., “God has given”

1 A Judean royal official who was sent to Egypt to fetch the prophet Uriah (Jer 26:22) and later protested the king’s burning of Jeremiah’s scroll (Jer 36:25); he may also have been the same as 2. 2 The father of Nehushta, whose son Jehoiachin became king of Judah (2Kgs 24:8). 3 Several leading figures in the time of Ezra (Ezra 8:16).