The name Elisha combines eli (my God) and yasha (to save), meaning "My God is salvation." He was the prophetic successor of Elijah and one of the greatest miracle-workers in the Old Testament, performing twice as many miracles as his mentor.
Elisha's ministry (1 Kings 19 – 2 Kings 13) is a sustained proclamation that Yahweh is the God who saves. He multiplied oil for a widow, raised the Shunammite's son from death, healed Naaman's leprosy, and fed one hundred men with twenty loaves — anticipations of Jesus' ministry that caused the early church to see in Elisha a typological preview of Christ. His name is nearly identical to the Greek Iesous (Jesus), and the New Testament Jesus cited Elisha's healing of Naaman to teach that God's salvation reaches beyond Israel (Luke 4:27).