ELKANAH (erica-nab), Hcb. el-kaw God the jealous or God creates), the name of several descendants of Korah mentioned in the Old Testament, for we are expressly told that "the children of Korah died not' in the rebellion of Korah (NUM. XXVi:11).
1. The chief one is the husband of Hannah and father of Samuel. t Sam. i : I ff.; ii:11, 20; Chron. vi :27, 34. The few words that are spoken of him set him in a very favorable light. He was a kind and faithful husband, a pious Hebrew, and a self-sacrificing father. Although he was a Levite, he did not apparently perform any of the usual offices. Judging from the sacrifices he of fered annually, ; Sam. I:4. and from the present he brought to the Lord when Samuel was dedi cated. he was a man of wealth.
2. A descendant of Korah in the line of Ahi moth, otherwise Mahath ( t Chron. vi :26, 35).
3. Another man of the family of the Korhites who joined David while he was at Ziklag (1 Chron. xii :6). From the terms of verse 2 it is doubtful whether this can be the well-known Levitical family of Korhites. Perhaps the same who afterwards was one of the doorkeepers for the ark (xv :23). ( B. C. about 982.)
4. An officer in the household of Ahaz, king of Judah, who was slain by Zichri, the Ephraimite, when Pekah invaded Judah (2 Chron. xxviii :7). (B. C. about 735.) 5. The father of one Asa, and head of a Levit ical family resident in the "villages of the Neto phathites' ( t Citron. ix :16). (B. C. long before 536.) 6. Son of Korah, the son of Izhar, the son of Kohath, the son of Levi, according to Exod. vi: 24, where his brothers are represented as being Assir and Abiasaph. But in 1 Chron. vi :22, 23 (Heh. vii :8) Assir, Elkanah, and Ehiacaph are mentioned in the same order, not as the three sons of Korah, hut as son, grandson, and great-grand son respectively; and this seems to be undoubtedly correct I f co, the passage in Exodus must he understood as merely giving the families of the Korhites existing at the time the passage was penned, which must, in this case, have been long subsequent to Moses.