Elisabeth — Bible person

God her oath, the mother of John the Baptist (Luke 1:5). She was a descendant of Aaron. She and her husband Zacharias (q.v.) “were both righteous before God” (Luke 1:5, 13). Mary’s visit to Elisabeth is described in 1:39-63.

People and places

Selected passages

Show passage in OET: LUK 1:5-7

OET-RV LUK 1:5

5 It started with the priest Zekaryah (Zechariah; Grk. Zakarias) and his wife Elisheva (Elizabeth; Grk. Elisabet) at the time when Herodes (Herod) was the king of Yehudah (Judea). (Zekaryah was in the priestly division of Aviyah, and Elisheva was also a descendant of Aharon (Aaron).)

OET-RV LUK 1:6

6 God considered them both good and blameless as they followed his instructions and obeyed his rules.

OET-RV LUK 1:7

7 Elisheva had never been able to have a child, so there was just the two of them as they were now getting older.

OET-LV LUK 1:5

5 It _became in the days of _Haʸrōdaʸs king of_ the _Youdaia, a_ certain _priest by_the_name Zaⱪarias of division of _Abia/(ʼAⱱīāh), and wife to _him of the daughters of_Aʼarōn/(ʼAhₐron), and the name of _her, Elisabet.

OET-LV LUK 1:6

6 And they _were both righteous before the god, blameless in pursuing all the commands and just _acts of _the master.

OET-LV LUK 1:7

7 And was to _them no child, as _much _as the Elisabet was barren, and both were having _advanced in the days of _them.

Show passage in OET: LUK 1:39-45

OET-RV LUK 1:39

39 Several days later, Maria (Mary; Heb. Miryam; Grk. Maria /Mariam) determined that she’d go to the town in the hills of Yehudah (Judea)

OET-RV LUK 1:40

40 where Zekaryah (Grk. Zakarias) and Elisheva (Elizabeth; Grk. Elisabet) lived. She entered the house and greeted Elisheva,

OET-RV LUK 1:41

41 and as soon as Elisheva heard the greeting, her baby in her womb kicked, and she was filled with the holy spirit

OET-RV LUK 1:42

42 and she called out loudly, “Out of all women, you have been blessed and the baby in your womb has been blessed.

OET-RV LUK 1:43

43 How could this happen to me—that the mother of my master would come and visit me!

OET-RV LUK 1:44

44 You see, as soon as I heard your greeting, the baby in my womb kicked with excitement,

OET-RV LUK 1:45

45 and the woman who believed that everything Yahweh told her will happen, she will be blessed.”

OET-LV LUK 1:39

39 And Maria having _risen _up in the these days, was _gone into the mountainous with earnestness, to a_city of _Youda/(Yəhūdāh),

OET-LV LUK 1:40

40 and she _came _in into the house of _Zaⱪarias, and greeted the Elisabet.

OET-LV LUK 1:41

41 And it _became, as the Elisabet heard the greeting of_ the _Maria, the baby kicked in the womb of _her, and the Elisabet was _filled with_the_ holy _spirit,

OET-LV LUK 1:42

42 and she _cried _out with_a_ loud _voice and said:
You having _been _blessed among women, and the fruit of _the womb of _you having _been _blessed.

OET-LV LUK 1:43

43 And from _where this to _me, that the mother of _the master of _me may _come to me?

OET-LV LUK 1:44

44 For/Because see, as the voice of _the greeting of _you became into the ears of _me, the baby in the womb of _me kicked in.
exultation.

OET-LV LUK 1:45

45 And blessed is the woman having _believed that there _will _be a_completion to _the things having _been _spoken to _her from the_master.

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Recorded scripture occurrences (8)

References recorded in the source data; this is not an exhaustive list of mentions.