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# אֵלָה

Biblical Hebrew · Strong's H425

**Elah** — used 13 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

Elah [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1488/425/#m1)

### Brown–Driver–Briggs 1906

אֵלָה²: n.pr.m. n.pr.loc. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1488/425/#m2)

**The whole BDB entry:** n.pr.m. (terebinth, cf. Gn 49:21 sub i. אֵלָה) a chief of Edom Gn 36:41 = 1 Ch 1:52 (= אֵילַת n.pr.loc.? v. Di) son of Baasha; reigned two years in Isr. 1 K 16:6, 8, 13, 14. father of Hoshea who was last king of Isr. 2 K 15:30; 17:1; 18:1, 9. a son of Caleb 1 Ch 4:15(×2). a son of Uzzi 1 Ch 9:8.

Why these entries: BDB: headword, part of speech agrees, 12 of its verses cited, 0 words shared with the glosses, lists its Strong's number (14 candidates); OSHB: headword, part of speech agrees, 0 words shared with the BDB entry, 1 with the glosses (12 candidates)

## Glosses

MACULA's English glosses of the word in the text, with how often each is used: of Elah (7); Elah (6).

## In the verses

[Genesis 36:41](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/GEN.36.41/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/GEN.36.41/#tree)

אַלּ֧וּף אָהֳלִיבָמָ֛ה אַלּ֥וּף אֵלָ֖ה אַלּ֥וּף פִּינֹֽן׃

*Word for word:* chief Oholibamah chief Elah chief Pinon

*JPS 1917:* the chief of Oholibamah, the chief of Elah, the chief of Pinon;

[1 Chronicles 1:52](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/1CH.1.52/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/1CH.1.52/#tree)

אַלּ֧וּף אָהֳלִיבָמָ֛ה אַלּ֥וּף אֵלָ֖ה אַלּ֥וּף פִּינֹֽן׃

*Word for word:* chief Oholibamah chief Elah chief Pinon

*JPS 1917:* the chief of Oholibamah, the chief of Elah, the chief of Pinon;

## On Mova

- [This word in the Tanakh dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/tanakh/w/425.html) on Mova free.
- [Trees and pragmatics of its meanings](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1488/425/): 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).