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# אֱלִישָׁה

Biblical Hebrew · Strong's H473

**Elishah** — 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

Elishah [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1488/473/#m1)

### Brown–Driver–Briggs 1906

אֱלִישָׁה: n.pr.loc. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1488/473/#m2)

**The whole BDB entry:** n.pr.loc. as son of Javan Gn 10:4; 1 Ch 1:7; אִיֵּי א׳ Ez 27:7 (Aeolis Josephus Jer Kn; H. DerenbourgMélanges Graux, 235 f (Eng. trans. Hbr. Oct. 1887, 7); Hellas 𝔗 Jon etc., LenOrig. ii. 2. 34 f; Italy, with Sicily, cf. מְדִינַת אִיטַלְיָא 𝔗 Ezek, Di Gn 10:4; Carthage = Elissa, StaDe Populo Javan, 8 f; E. MeyerGesch. i. § 282; decision difficult; last view very attractive).

Why these entries: BDB: headword, part of speech agrees, 3 of its verses cited, 0 words shared with the glosses, lists its Strong's number (1 candidates); OSHB: headword, part of speech agrees, 0 words shared with the BDB entry, 1 with the glosses (1 candidates)

## Glosses

MACULA's English glosses of the word in the text, with how often each is used: \[were\] Elishah (2); of Elishah (1).

## In the verses

[Genesis 10:4](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/GEN.10.4/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/GEN.10.4/#tree)

וּבְנֵ֥י יָוָ֖ן אֱלִישָׁ֣ה וְתַרְשִׁ֑ישׁ כִּתִּ֖ים וְדֹדָנִֽים׃

*Word for word:* and the.sons of.Javan \[were\].Elishah and Tarshish Kittim and Dodanim

*JPS 1917:* And the sons of Javan: Elishah, and Tarshish, Kittim, and Dodanim.

[1 Chronicles 1:7](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/1CH.1.7/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/1CH.1.7/#tree)

וּבְנֵ֥י יָוָ֖ן אֱלִישָׁ֣ה וְתַרְשִׁ֑ישָׁה כִּתִּ֖ים וְרוֹדָנִֽים׃ס

*Word for word:* and the.sons of.Javan \[were\].Elishah and (to) Tarshish Kittim and Rodanim

*JPS 1917:* And the sons of Javan: Elishah, and Tarshish, Kittim, and Rodanim.

## On Mova

- [This word in the Tanakh dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/tanakh/w/473.html) on Mova free.
- [Trees and pragmatics of its meanings](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1488/473/): 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).