Eliezer is the personal name used in a genealogy to identify Jesus as Eliezer’s son.

The attested use is a personal name in a genealogical sequence: Luke 3:29 places Eliezer between Jesus and Matthat as the named father of Jesus and son of Matthat.

1. Personal name in a genealogy · dominant

   In Luke 3:29, the genitive singular masculine form Ἐλιέζερ occurs in the repeated lineage clause linking Jesus, Eliezer, Matthat, and Levi. The APB renders the sequence, “the son of Jesus, the son of Eliezer, the son of Matthat, the son of Levi,” presenting Eliezer as Jesus’s father in that chain.

   Luke 3:29

In the Anselm Project Bible: In Luke 3:29, the APB includes “the son of Eliezer” within a genealogical chain. It confirms the verse’s lineage relation rather than supplying a lexical definition.