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# עֵילָם

Biblical Hebrew

**Elam** — 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

Elam [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1506/lemma_3a_5e2_5b5_5d9_5dc_5b8_5dd/#m1)

### Brown–Driver–Briggs 1906

עֵילָם²: n.pr.m. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1506/lemma_3a_5e2_5b5_5d9_5dc_5b8_5dd/#m2)

**The whole BDB entry:** n.pr.m. Ηλαμ, Αιλαμ: heads of families of returned exiles: Ezr 2:7 = Ne 7:12. Ezr 2:31 = Ne 7:34. Ezr 8:7; 10:2 (Qr; Kt עולם), v 26. a chief of people Ne 10:15. name in Benjamin 1 Ch 8:24. Levite name 1 Ch 26:3. a priest Ne 12:42.

Why these entries: BDB: headword, part of speech agrees, 10 of its verses cited, 0 words shared with the glosses (12 candidates); OSHB: headword, part of speech agrees, 0 words shared with the BDB entry, 1 with the glosses (7 candidates)

## Glosses

MACULA's English glosses of the word in the text, with how often each is used: of Elam (7); Elam (3); \[were\] Elam (2).

## In the verses

[1 Chronicles 8:24](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/1CH.8.24/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/1CH.8.24/#tree)

וַחֲנַנְיָ֥ה וְעֵילָ֖ם וְעַנְתֹתִיָּֽה׃

*Word for word:* and Hananiah and Elam and Anthothijah

*JPS 1917:* and Hananiah, and Elam, and Anthothiah;

[Ezra 2:7](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/EZR.2.7/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/EZR.2.7/#tree)

בְּנֵ֣י עֵילָ֔ם אֶ֕לֶף מָאתַ֖יִם חֲמִשִּׁ֥ים וְאַרְבָּעָֽה׃ס

*Word for word:* the.descendants of.Elam one.thousand two.hundred fifty and four

*JPS 1917:* The children of Elam, a thousand two hundred fifty and four.

## On Mova

- [This word in the Tanakh dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/tanakh/w/lemma_3a_5e2_5b5_5d9_5dc_5b8_5dd.html) on Mova free.
- [Trees and pragmatics of its meanings](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1506/lemma_3a_5e2_5b5_5d9_5dc_5b8_5dd/): 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).