Elisha (given name)

Elisha is a prophet and a wonder-worker. Elisha mentioned in the Hebrew Bible, the Quran, and Baha'i writings.

Elisha

Elisha
Pronunciation	Elisha
Gender	Unisex
Language(s)	Hebrew
Origin
Word/name	Hebrew
Meaning	Salvation of God
Other names
Variant form(s)	Eleisha, Eli, Elisee, Eliseo, Elisher, Eliso, and Lisha
Nickname(s)	Lish, Lisha, Eli, Ellie
Related names	Elishah

Elisha in other languages

• Arabic: إليشا (Iilisha)
• Albanian: Elisha
• Amharic: ኢሊያሃ (īlīyaha)
• Armenian: էլիսա (Elisa)
• Azerbaijani: Elisha
• Bengali: আল-ইয়াসা (Āla-iẏāsā)
• Bulgarian: Елисей (Elïsey)
• Burmese: ။ လိရှဲ-. (lishell)
• Chinese Simplified: 伊丽莎 (Yī lì shā)
• Chinese Traditional: 伊麗莎 (Yī lì shā)
• Croatian: Elisha
• Czech: Elisha
• Danish: Elisha
• Dutch: Elisha
• English: Elisha
• Esperanto: Elisido
• Estonian: Elisha
• Filipino: Elisha
• Finnish: Elisa
• French: Elisha
• German: Elisha
• Greek: ελισα (Elisa)
• Gujarati: એલિશા (Ēliśā)
• Hebrew: אלישה
• Hindi: एलीशा (Eleesha)
• Hungarian: Elisha
• Icelandic: Elisha
• Indonesian: Elisa, Elisha, Ilyasa
• Irish: Elisha
• Italian: Elisha
• Japanese: エリシャ (Erisha)
• Javanese: Elisha
• Kannada: ಎಲಿಷಾ (Eliṣā)
• Kazakh: элиша
• Korean: 엘리사 (Ellisa)
• Kurdish: Elisha
• Lao: Elisha
• Latin: Eliseus
• Latvian: Elisha
• Lithuanian: Elisha
• Macedonian: елисеј (Elisej)
• Malagasy: Elisa
• Malay: Elisha, Ilyasa
• Malayalam: എലിഷ (Eliṣa)
• Marathi: अलीशा (aleesha)
• Mongolian: элиша
• Nepali: एलिशा (Ēliśā)
• Norwegian: Elisha
• Persian: الیزه
• Polish: Elisha
• Portuguese: Eliseu
• Punjabi: ਅਲੀਸ਼ਾ (Alīśā)
• Romanian: Elisha
• Russian: Елисей (Elïsey)
• Serbian: елисха (elisha)
• Slovenian: Elizej
• Spanish: Elíseo
• Sundanese: Elisha
• Swedish: Elisha
• Tajik: элиша
• Tamil: எலிஷா (Eliṣā)
• Telugu: ఎలీషా (Elīṣā)
• Thai: เอลีชา (Xelīchā)
• Turkish: Elisha
• Ukrainian: Єлисей (Yelysey)
• Urdu: الیشا
• Uzbek: Elisha
• Vietnamese: Elisha
• Welsh: Elisha

Other persons with the same given name include:

Actors

• Elisha Cook, Jr. (1903–1995), American actor
• Elisha Cuthbert (born 1982), Canadian actress
• Elisha Henig (born 2004), American actor

Business

• Elisha S. Converse (1820–1904), American businessman
• Elisha Peck (1789–1851), American businessman
• Elisha Wiesel (born 1972), American chief information officer of Goldman Sachs; hedge fund manager of the Niche Plus; son of Elie Wiesel

Inventors

• Elisha Gray (1835–1901), American electrical engineer considered by some to be the true inventor of the telephone
• Elisha Otis (1811–1861), American industrialist, founder of the Otis Elevator Company, and inventor of an elevator safety device

Politicians and lawyers

• Elisha Hunt Allen (1804–1883), American congressman, lawyer and diplomat, and Chief Justice of the Kingdom of Hawaii Supreme Court and diplomat for the Kingdom of Hawaii
• Elisha W. Baily (1821–1904), American politician and physician from Pennsylvania
• Elisha Baxter (1827-1899), tenth Governor of Arkansas
• Elisha Cooke, Sr. (1637–1715), physician, politician, and businessman, elected Speaker of the Massachusetts House of Representatives
• Elisha Cooke, Jr. (1678-1837), physician and politician from the Province of Massachusetts Bay; son of the above
• Elisha Dyer (1811-1890), American politician and 25th Governor of Rhode Island
• Elisha Dyer, Jr. (1839–1906), American politician and 45th Governor of Rhode Island; son of the above
• Elisha P. Ferry (1825–1895), twice Governor of the Washington Territory and the first Governor of the State of Washington
• Elisha Harris (1791-1861), 20th Governor of Rhode Island
• Elisha Lewis (died 1867), American politician
• Elisha Litchfield (1785-1859), American merchant and member of the US House of Representatives from New York
• Elisha Mathewson (1767–1853), US Senator from Rhode Island
• Elisha Payne (1731-1807), American businessman and politician
• Elisha McCallion (born 1982), Irish female Sinn Féin politician
• Elisha Marshall Pease (1812–1883), fifth and thirteenth Governor of Texas
• Elisha Reynolds Potter (1764–1835), Federalist Party US Congressman and Speaker in the Rhode Island State Assembly
• Elisha R. Potter (1811–1882), justice of the Rhode Island Supreme Court and member of the US House of Representatives; son of the above
• Elisha Williams (1694–1755), Congregational minister, legislator, jurist and rector of Yale College

Sports

• Eli Manning (born 1981), American former National Football League quarterback
• Elisha N'Dow (born 1996), English professional footballer
• Elisha Obed (1952–2018), Bahamian light middleweight boxer
• Elisha Scott (1893–1959), Irish association football goalkeeper

Other

• Elisha ben Abuyah (before 70–?), Jewish rabbi and religious authority
• Elisha (Nestorian patriarch), patriarch of the Church of the East from 524 to 537
• Elisha Kent Kane (1820-1857), American explorer and medical officer

See also

• Elishah, a person in the biblical book of Genesis
• Elisa (given name)