The science of life and of living organisms, including their structure, function, growth, origin, evolution, and distribution. It includes botany and zoology. The life processes or characteristic phenomena of a group or category of living organisms.
For a meaning of the Hebrew name Eli, NOBSE Study Bible Name List takes the ×¢× -part to come from ×¢×× ('ala), meaning to ascend. The ×, NOBSE seems to explain as an adjective-maker but also as a remnant of ××. Hence NOBSE reads  High that is God Is High .
play \bi-Ëli-tÉl-iÅ, -Ëlit-liÅ, bÄ-\. 1  transitive verb. 2  1 : to speak slightingly of : disparage belittles her efforts. 3  2 : to cause (a person or thing) to seem little or less a curiosity so vast that it almost belittled the main matter â Mark Twain.