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# אֵילִם

Biblical Hebrew · Strong's H362

**Elim** — used 6 times in the Hebrew Bible. Below: its meanings with their sources, MACULA's glosses, and 2 verses word for word and in JPS 1917.

## Meaning

### OpenScriptures lexical index

Elim [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1488/362/#m1)

### Brown–Driver–Briggs 1906

אֵילִים: n.pr.loc. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1488/362/#m2)

**The whole BDB entry:** always אֵילִם n.pr.loc. (= place of terebinths or other great trees, v. Di Gn 14:6 & Ex 15:27 (12 fountains & 70 palms)) 2nd station of Isr. in desert after passing sea Ex 16:1(×2) Nu 33:9, 10; אֵי֫לִמָה Ex 15:27 Nu 33:9; prob. = Wady Gharandel cf. RobBR i. 100, 105.

Why these entries: BDB: same consonants, part of speech agrees, 4 of its verses cited, 0 words shared with the glosses, lists its Strong's number (12 candidates); OSHB: headword, part of speech agrees, 0 words shared with the BDB entry, 1 with the glosses (8 candidates)

## Glosses

MACULA's English glosses of the word in the text, with how often each is used: Elim (4); to (2).

## In the verses

[Numbers 33:10](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/NUM.33.10/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/NUM.33.10/#tree)

וַיִּסְע֖וּ מֵאֵילִ֑ם וַֽיַּחֲנ֖וּ עַל־יַם־סֽוּף׃

*Word for word:* and they.set.out from Elim and they.encamped at \[the\].sea of.reed\[s\]

*JPS 1917:* And they journeyed from Elim, and pitched by the Red Sea.

[Exodus 15:27](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/EXO.15.27/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/EXO.15.27/#tree)

וַיָּבֹ֣אוּ אֵילִ֔מָה וְשָׁ֗ם שְׁתֵּ֥ים עֶשְׂרֵ֛ה עֵינֹ֥ת מַ֖יִם וְשִׁבְעִ֣ים תְּמָרִ֑ים וַיַּחֲנוּ־שָׁ֖ם עַל־הַמָּֽיִם׃

*Word for word:* and they.came to Elim and.\[were\] there two.plus ten springs of.water and seventy palm.trees and they.encamped there at the water

*JPS 1917:* And they came to Elim, where were twelve springs of water, and three score and ten palm-trees; and they encamped there by the waters.

## On Mova

- [This word in the Tanakh dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/tanakh/w/362.html) on Mova free.
- [Trees and pragmatics of its meanings](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1488/362/): every English meaning parsed by Mova, with its dependency tree and frames.

Sources. The words, their counts, glosses and the word-for-word renderings: MACULA Hebrew (the Westminster Leningrad Codex; Clear Bible, CC BY 4.0). Meanings: the OpenScriptures lexical index (CC BY 4.0), Brown–Driver–Briggs 1906 and Jastrow 1903 (public domain, via Sefaria); Targum Onkelos from Sefaria (public domain). Translation: JPS 1917 (public domain, from eBible.org).