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# עֵילָם

Biblical Hebrew · Strong's H5867

**Elam** — used 15 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/1506/5867/#m1)

### Brown–Driver–Briggs 1906

עֵילָם: n.pr.gent. et terr. Elam [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1506/5867/#m2)

**The whole BDB entry:** n.pr.gent. et terr. Elam, Αιλαμ, Ἐλαμεῖται, well-known country and people NE. of Lower Tigris (Assyrian Elamtu DlPa 320 ff. COT Gn 10:22);—as early invaders of Palestin Gn 14:1, 9, allies of Assyrian Is 22:6; foe of Babylon 21:2; abode of dispersed Israelites 11:11; prophesied against Je 49:34, 35, 36(×2) (Qr, Kt עולם), v 37, 38, 39 Ez 32:24, cf. כָּל־מַלְכֵי ע׳ Je 25:25; called ‘son’ of Shem Gn 10:22 (P) = 1 Ch 1:17; purely local designation ע׳ הַמְּדִינָה Dn 8:2.

Why these entries: BDB: headword, part of speech agrees, 14 of its verses cited, 1 words shared with the glosses, lists its Strong's number (12 candidates); OSHB: headword, part of speech agrees, 1 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: Elam (8); of Elam (6); O Elam (1).

## In the verses

[Isaiah 22:6](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/ISA.22.6/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/ISA.22.6/#tree)

וְעֵילָם֙ נָשָׂ֣א אַשְׁפָּ֔ה בְּרֶ֥כֶב אָדָ֖ם פָּֽרָשִׁ֑ים וְקִ֥יר עֵרָ֖ה מָגֵֽן׃

*Word for word:* and Elam it.took.up a.quiver with chariotry of.a.man horsemen and Kir it.laid.bare a.shield

*JPS 1917:* And Elam bore the quiver, with troops of men, even horsemen; and Kir uncovered the shield.

[Jeremiah 49:39](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/JER.49.39/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/JER.49.39/#tree)

וְהָיָ֣ה ׀ בְּאַחֲרִ֣ית הַיָּמִ֗ים אָשִׁ֛יב אֶת־שְׁב֥וּת עֵילָ֖ם נְאֻם־יְהוָֽה׃ס

*Word for word:* and it.will.be at the.end of the.days I.will.turn.back (et) the.captivity of.Elam the.utterance of.Yahweh

*JPS 1917:* But it shall come to pass in the end of days, that I will bring back the captivity of Elam, saith the LORD.

## On Mova

- [This word in the Tanakh dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/tanakh/w/5867.html) on Mova free.
- [Trees and pragmatics of its meanings](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1506/5867/): 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).