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Eleazar (or Elazar), 
(אֶלְעָז
ָר "My Elohim|God has helped",
Standard Hebrew Elʿazar, Tiberian Hebrew
ʾElʿāzār) refers to a number
of persons in the Hebrew Bible and in Jewish
history:

* A son of Aaron, and a Levite cohen|priest. His
wife, a daughter of Putiel, bore him Phinehas.
After the death of Nadab and Abihu, (Lev. 10:12;
Num. 3:4) he was appointed to the charge of the
sanctuary. He fulfilled a number of functions over
the course of the Wilderness wanderings, from
creating the plating to the altar out of the
firepans of Korah's assembly (Numbers, chap. 17)
to performing the ritual of the red heifer
(Numbers, chap. 19).  On Mount Hor he was clothed
with the sacred vestments, which Moses took from
off his father Aaron and put upon him as successor
to his father in the high priest's office, which
he held for more than twenty years. (Num.
20:25-29)  He took part with Moses in numbering
the people, (26:3, 4) and assisted at the
inauguration of Joshua. He assisted in the
distribution of the land after the conquest.
(Josh. 14:1) When he died, "they buried him in a
hill that pertained to Phinehas his son." (Josh.
24:33). The high-priesthood remained in his family
till the time of Eli, into whose family it passed,
till it was restored to the family of Eleazar in
the person of Zadok. (1 Sam. 2:35; comp. 1 Kings
2:27) 

* An inhabitant of Kirjath-jearim who was
"sanctified" to take charge of the ark, while it
remained in the house of his father Abinadab. (1
Sam. 7:1, 2; comp. Num. 3:31; 4:15)

* The son of Dodo the Ahohite, of the tribe of
Benjamin, one of the three most eminent of David's
thirty-seven heroes, (1 Chr. 11:12) who broke
through the Philistine host and brought him water
from the well of Bethlehem.  (2 Sam. 23:9, 16)

* A son of Phinehas associated with the priests in
taking charge of the sacred vessels brought back
to Jerusalem after the Babylonian Exile. (Ezra
8:33) 

* A Levite of the family of Merari. (1 Chr. 23:21,
22) 

* A son of Mattathias and the younger brother of
Judas Maccabeus.  He was killed at the Battle of
Beth-zechariah during the Maccabean revolt. (1
Macc. 6:43-46)

* "Eleazar" was also the name of one of the
leaders of Jewish resistance against the Roman
conquest (see Siege of Jerusalem (70)|Siege of
Jerusalem) in AD 70, as well as the leader of the
Jewish resistance at Masada in AD 73. Whether or
not these two are the same person is unclear.

==See also==
*Lazarus