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# אֶלְקֹשִׁי

Biblical Hebrew · Strong's H512

**Elkoshite** — used 1 times in the Hebrew Bible. Below: its meanings with their sources, MACULA's glosses, and 1 verse word for word and in JPS 1917.

## Meaning

### OpenScriptures lexical index

Elkoshite [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1488/512/#m1)

### Brown–Driver–Briggs 1906

אֶלְקֹשִׁי: adj.gent. Elkoshite [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1488/512/#m2)

**The whole BDB entry:** adj.gent. c. art. Nahum the Elkoshite Na 1:1 (perhaps = from Elkosh, but locality unknown; identified by JerComm. with a village Elcesi in Galilee; cf. also Capernaum (= כְּפַר נַחוּם?) Elkosh near Mosul improbable; on etymol., and site of place, v. DaNahum, etc., 9 ff. GASmTwelve Proph. ii. 79f.).

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

## In the verses

[Nahum 1:1](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/NAM.1.1/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/NAM.1.1/#tree)

מַשָּׂ֖א נִֽינְוֵ֑ה סֵ֧פֶר חֲז֛וֹן נַח֖וּם הָאֶלְקֹשִֽׁי׃

*Word for word:* the.oracle of.Nineveh the.document of.the.vision of.Nahum the Elkoshite

*JPS 1917:* THE BURDEN of Nineveh. The book of the vision of Nahum the Elkoshite.

## On Mova

- [This word in the Tanakh dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/tanakh/w/512.html) on Mova free.
- [Trees and pragmatics of its meanings](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1488/512/): 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).