ELZABAD

(El·zaʹbad) [God has bestowed].

1. One of the swift and courageous mighty men of the tribe of Gad who joined themselves to David in the wilderness while he was still under restriction because of King Saul. The least of these Gadites is described as equal to a hundred and the greatest to a thousand.—1 Chron. 12:1, 8, 12, 14.

2. A Levite of the family of Korahites; a son of Shemaiah and a grandson of Obed-edom. A capable man, Elzabad served in the division of the gatekeepers in King David’s day.—1 Chron. 26:1, 4, 7, 12, 15, 19.