אֵלָא
ʼÊlâʼ · H414 · Hebrew · proper noun · 1 occurrence
Person
- Elahfather of Shimei1 verse
Meanings
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Ela
A man who was the father of Shimei, an official in the time of King Solomon
Examples1 Kings 4:18 Shimei the son of Ela in Benjamin;
How it’s used In 1 role
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In phrases “… of it”It is the genitive
1 occurrences in 1 groups
- בֵּןson 1
When two words share a role, as in “Paul and Barnabas said”, the verse appears under each, so a section’s counts can add up to more than the number of occurrences.
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Semantic domains 1 entry
- Names of People003001007
- אֵלָא is the personal name of Elah, the father of Shimei listed among Solomon's district officials.
Brown-Driver-Briggs Hebrew Lexicon H414. Ela אֵלָא proper name, masculine father of an officer of Solomon 1Ki 4:18 (= II.…
אֵלָא proper name, masculine father of an officer of Solomon 1Ki 4:18 (= II. אֵלָה terebinth?).
I. אלה (assumed as √ of אֵל, (אֱלוֺהַּ) אֱלֹהִים god, God, but question intricate, & conclusions dubious It is uncertain whether אֵל & אֱלֹהִים are from the same √. Following are the chief theories:
1. a. Thes makes אֵל & אֱלֹהִים distinct, and both really primitive, but associates אֵל in treatment with אֵל strong, Participle of √ אול; strong, according to Thes, being derived from meaning be in front of; (different order in Lex. Man., Rob-Ges);
b. אֵל & אֱלֹהִים distinct; former from אול strong; latter plural of אֱלֹהַּ from √ [אלהּ] = () go to and fro in perplexity or fear, hence אֱלֹהַּ fear & object of fear, reverence, revered one; = אל פחד trepide confugere ad Hos 3:5; אלהים = פחד Gen 31:42 = מוֺרָא Isa 8:13 DeGn 1887, 48 (compare σέβασμα, post-Biblical Hebrewיִרְאָה NHWB; Aramaic דַּחֲלָא CWB); so De following Fl in DeGn ed. 4, 57, compare MV.
2 אֵל & אֱלֹהִים possibly connected; אֵל = leader, lord, from √ אול be in front; so NöMBAk 1880, 760 f; SBAk 1882, 1175 f.
3. a. אֵל & אֱלֹהִים connected, & both from a √ אלה (= אלהּ) to which is assigned meaning strong; so Ew§ 146 d, 178 b (see also Jahrbücher d. bibl. Wiss. x. 11, Bibl. Theol. ii. 330);
b. אֵל from √ אלה strong (not אלהּ), & אֱלֹהִים expanded from אֵל, compare plural אֲמָהוֺת from אמה etc.; so Di on Gen 1:1; he supports meaning strong by reference to phrase יָדִי לְאֵל יֵשׁ Gen 31:29 and elsewhere;
c. similarly, אֵל, being very early & common Shemitic word, formed plural אלהים, from which singular אֱלוֺהַּ was afterwards inferred, NesTheol. Stud. a. Württ., 1882, 243 (criticized by NöSBA 1.c.).
4 אֵל (אֱלֹהִים אֱלוֺהַּ, disregarded) from √ אלה stretch out to, reach after (compare preposition אֱלִי אֵל,, also אָלָה swear), God as the one whom men strive to reach, 'das Ziel aller Menschensehnsucht und alles Menschenstrebens,' LagOr. ii. 3; Gn 1882:173 = M 96. — compare SpurrellHebrew Text of Genesis, App. ii, where all these views are stated somewhat more fully, & briefly criticized; on the use of אֵל & אֱלֹהַּ in Shemitic languages see, exhaustively, NöMBAk, SBAk, 1.c.).
Brown, Driver and Briggs, A Hebrew and English Lexicon of the Old Testament (1906), public domain
Topical studies with this word 1 entry
Meanings adapted from the UBS Dictionary of the Greek New Testament, © United Bible Societies, CC BY-SA 4.0 and the UBS Dictionary of Biblical Hebrew (from the Semantic Dictionary of Biblical Hebrew), © United Bible Societies, CC BY-SA 4.0; MACULA Greek Linguistic Datasets, available at https://github.com/Clear-Bible/macula-greek/, licensed CC BY 4.0; MACULA Hebrew Linguistic Datasets © 2022-2024 by Biblica, Inc., CC BY 4.0. Westminster Leningrad Codex (tanach.us). OpenScriptures Hebrew Bible morphology (hb.openscriptures.org), CC BY 4.0.
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