A variant spelling of H507, Elpelet also means "God is deliverance." In 1 Chronicles 14:5 it appears in a list of David's sons born in Jerusalem, and in 1 Chronicles 3:6 as another son of David. The name was given multiple times within David's household, suggesting it expressed a repeated, heartfelt testimony of God's saving acts.
That David named multiple sons Elpelet ("God is deliverance") suggests a father who wanted his children marked by the testimony of divine rescue. David's life was a sustained story of God's deliverance — from Goliath, from Saul, from Absalom, from his own failures. His sons were given this name as living monuments to remembered mercies. The practice of naming children after God's attributes and acts is an ancient form of catechesis — passing faith to the next generation through the very act of naming.