“In the time of Herod king of Judea there was a priest named Zechariah, who belonged to the priestly division of Abijah, and whose wife Elizabeth was a descendant of Aaron.”
Luke 1:5
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Elizabeth's name: my God is an oath
Elizabeth's Greek name, Elisabet (G1665), is the namesake of Aaron's wife Elisheba (H472) (Exodus 6:23), a name that means my God is an oath. Her husband Zechariah, at their son's naming, praised God for remembering "the oath He swore to our father Abraham" (Luke 1:73).
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