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# אֵילַת

Biblical Hebrew

**Elath** — used 3 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

Elath [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1488/lemma_3a_5d0_5b5_5d9_5dc_5b7_5ea/#m1)

### Brown–Driver–Briggs 1906

אֵילַת: n.pr.loc. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1488/lemma_3a_5d0_5b5_5d9_5dc_5b7_5ea/#m2)

**The whole BDB entry:** n.pr.loc. (lofty tree(s coll.?) i.e. palms? cf. Di Gn 14:6) town & harbour, N.E. arm of Red Sea, hence called Ælanitic Gulf (= Gulf of Akaba, from neighbouring fortress) Dt 2:8; 2 K 14:22; 16:6(×2) (perhaps later designat. for fuller איל פארן q.v.) = 𝔊 Αἰλων, Αἰλαθ, Gr. Αἰλανα, etc.; = אֵלָה (? Gn 36:41 v. Di), אֵילוֹת infr.

Why these entries: BDB: headword, part of speech agrees, 0 of its verses cited, 0 words shared with the glosses (4 candidates); OSHB: headword, part of speech agrees, 0 words shared with the BDB entry, 1 with the glosses (5 candidates)

## Glosses

MACULA's English glosses of the word in the text, with how often each is used: Elath (3).

## In the verses

[2 Chronicles 8:17](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/2CH.8.17/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/2CH.8.17/#tree)

אָז֩ הָלַ֨ךְ שְׁלֹמֹ֜ה לְעֶצְיֽוֹנ־גֶּ֧בֶרעֶצְיֽוֹנ־גֶּ֧בֶר וְאֶל־אֵיל֛וֹת עַל־שְׂפַ֥ת הַיָּ֖ם בְּאֶ֥רֶץ אֱדֽוֹם׃

*Word for word:* then he.went Solomon to Ezion Geber and to Elath on the.shore of the.sea in the.land of.Edom

*JPS 1917:* Then went Solomon to Ezion-geber, and to Eloth, on the sea-shore in the land of Edom.

[2 Chronicles 26:2](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/2CH.26.2/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/2CH.26.2/#tree)

ה֚וּא בָּנָ֣ה אֶת־אֵיל֔וֹת וַיְשִׁיבֶ֖הָ לִֽיהוּדָ֑ה אַחֲרֵ֥י שְׁכַֽב־הַמֶּ֖לֶךְ עִם־אֲבֹתָֽיו׃פ

*Word for word:* he he.built (et) Elath and bring back restored.it to Judah after lay.down the king with ancestors his

*JPS 1917:* He built Eloth, and restored it to Judah, after that the king slept with his fathers.

## On Mova

- [This word in the Tanakh dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/tanakh/w/lemma_3a_5d0_5b5_5d9_5dc_5b7_5ea.html) on Mova free.
- [Trees and pragmatics of its meanings](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1488/lemma_3a_5d0_5b5_5d9_5dc_5b7_5ea/): 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).