ELIAM

e-li'-am ('eli'-am, "people's God"?):

(1) Father of Bathsheba (2 Samuel 11:3); in 1 Chronicles 3:5 called Ammiel.

(2) One of David's "thirty," son of Ahithophel the Gilonite (2 Samuel 23:34).

From the International Standard Bible Encyclopedia
Edited by James Orr, published in 1939 by Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing Co.