Elyashib (אֶלְיָשִׁיב) combines El (God) and shub (to return, restore). The meaning is "God will restore" or "God brings back." Most prominently, it is the name of the high priest during Nehemiah's time who oversaw the rebuilding of Jerusalem's walls.
The high priest Elyashib (Nehemiah 3:1) stands at the crucial moment of Israel's post-exilic restoration — his name prophetically appropriate as he led the rebuilding. Yet Nehemiah 13:4–9 reveals his moral failure: he allowed the Ammonite enemy Tobiah to use a temple storeroom. This tension illuminates the need for a greater High Priest — Jesus Christ (Hebrews 7:26) — holy and blameless, whose restoration never compromises. God's ultimate restoration flows through the one High Priest who never failed.