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# אֵלִיָּהוּ

Biblical Hebrew · Strong's H452

**Elijah** — used 71 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

Elijah [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1488/452/#m1)

### Brown–Driver–Briggs 1906

אֵלִיָּה: n.pr.m. Elijah [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1488/452/#m2)

**The whole BDB entry:** 2 K 1:3 + 4 times; אֵלִיָּ֫הוּ 1 K 17:1 + 62 times; n.pr.m. (Yah(u) is God, cf. יוֹאֵל) Elijah, the great prophet of the reign of Ahab 1 K 17:1 + 65 times K; 2 Ch 21:12 Mal 3:23. Benjamite 1 Ch 8:27; a priest of Ezra’s time Ezr 10:21; a son of Elam Ezr 10:26.

Why these entries: BDB: same consonants, part of speech agrees, 7 of its verses cited, 1 words shared with the glosses, lists its Strong's number (14 candidates); OSHB: same consonants, part of speech agrees, 1 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: Elijah (60); of Elijah (8); O Elijah (2).

## In the verses

[1 Chronicles 8:27](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/1CH.8.27/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/1CH.8.27/#tree)

וְיַעֲרֶשְׁיָ֧ה וְאֵלִיָּ֛ה וְזִכְרִ֖י בְּנֵ֥י יְרֹחָֽם׃

*Word for word:* and Jaareshiah and Elijah and Zikri \[were\].the.sons of.Jeroham

*JPS 1917:* and Jaareshiah, and Elijah, and Zichri, were the sons of Jeroham.

[1 Kings 21:17](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/1KI.21.17/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/1KI.21.17/#tree)

וַיְהִי֙ דְּבַר־יְהוָ֔ה אֶל־אֵלִיָּ֥הוּ הַתִּשְׁבִּ֖י לֵאמֹֽר׃

*Word for word:* and it.came the.word of.Yahweh to Elijah the Tishbite (cmp)

*JPS 1917:* And the word of the LORD came to Elijah the Tishbite, saying:

## On Mova

- [Trees and pragmatics of its meanings](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1488/452/): 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).