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אֵלָה

ʼÊlâh · H425 · Hebrew · proper noun · 16 occurrences

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This name belongs to 5 people

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Meanings

  1. Elah

    A man who was a chief of Edom

    Examples

    Genesis 36:41 chief Oholibamah, chief Elah, chief Pinon,

    1 Chronicles 1:52 chief Oholibamah, chief Elah, chief Pinon,

  2. Elah

    A valley where David killed Goliath

    Examples

    1 Samuel 17:2 Saul and the men of Israel were assembled and camped in the Valley of Elah, and they drew up in battle formation to confront the Philistines.

    1 Samuel 17:19 “For Saul and they and all the men of Israel are in the Valley of Elah, fighting the Philistines.”

    1 Samuel 21:9 Then the priest said, “The sword of Goliath the Philistine, whom you killed in the Valley of Elah, behold, it is wrapped in a cloth behind the ephod; if you would take it for yourself, take it. For there is no other except it here.” And David said, “There is none like it; give it to me.”

  3. Elah

    Elah, a man, the son of Baasha and king of Israel (886/85-885/84)

    Examples

    1 Kings 16:6 And Baasha lay down with his fathers and was buried in Tirzah, and his son Elah became king in his place.

    1 Kings 16:8 In the twenty-sixth year of Asa king of Judah, Elah the son of Baasha became king over Israel at Tirzah, and reigned for two years.

    1 Kings 16:13 for all the sins of Baasha and the sins of his son Elah, which they committed and into which they misled Israel, provoking the LORD God of Israel to anger with their idols.

  4. Elah

    A man, the father of Hoshea, king of Israel

    Examples

    2 Kings 15:30 And Hoshea the son of Elah formed a conspiracy against Pekah the son of Remaliah, and struck him and put him to death, and he became king in his place, in the twentieth year of Jotham the son of Uzziah.

    2 Kings 17:1 In the twelfth year of Ahaz king of Judah, Hoshea the son of Elah became king over Israel in Samaria, and reigned for nine years.

    2 Kings 18:1 Now it came about in the third year of Hoshea, the son of Elah king of Israel, that Hezekiah the son of Ahaz king of Judah became king.

  5. Elah

    Man; son of Caleb; tribe of Judah

    Examples

    1 Chronicles 4:15 The sons of Caleb the son of Jephunneh were Iru, Elah, and Naam; and the son of Elah was Kenaz.

  6. Elah

    A man of the tribe of Benjamin, the son of Uzzi, living after the exile

    Examples

    1 Chronicles 9:8 and Ibneiah the son of Jeroham, and Elah the son of Uzzi, the son of Michri, and Meshullam the son of Shephatiah, the son of Reuel, the son of Ibnijah;

How it’s used In 3 roles

Every occurrence, grouped by the words it is grammatically related to.

the word studied the word it goes with

Named alongside itApposition

6 occurrences in 2 groups

What it doesIt is the subject

2 occurrences in 1 groups

In phrases “… of it”It is the genitive

7 occurrences in 3 groups

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 3 entries
Trees001002007002
This entry carries no independent “Trees” sense of its own; every occurrence of this lexeme is the place or personal name Elah, as in “Saul and the men of Israel were assembled and camped in the Valley of Elah” (1 Samuel 17:2). The domain is bundle-shared with the homographic terebinth/oak noun אֵלָה (ʼêlâh, H424).
Names of People003001007
The word serves as the personal name Elah, borne by a chief of Esau's descendants (Genesis 36:41) and by a king of Israel, the son of Baasha (1 Kings 16:6, 8).
Names of Locations003001010
אֵלָה names the Valley of Elah itself, the site where Saul's army camped to face the Philistines (1 Samuel 17:2).
Brown-Driver-Briggs Hebrew Lexicon H425. Elah II. אֵלָה proper name, masculine (terebinth, compare Gen 49:21 below I. אֵלָה)…
H425. Elah
II. אֵלָה proper name, masculine (terebinth, compare Gen 49:21 below I. אֵלָה)
1 a chief of Edom Gen 36:41 = 1Ch 1:52 (= אֵילַת proper name, of a location ? see Di).
2 son of Baasha; reigned two years in Israel 1Ki 16:6, 1Ki 16:8, 1Ki 16:13, 1Ki 16:14.
3 father of Hoshea who was last king of Isr. 2Ki 15:30; 2Ki 17:1; 2Ki 18:1, 2Ki 18:9.
4 a son of Caleb 1Ch 4:15 (twice in verse).
5 a son of Uzzi 1Ch 9:8.

Brown, Driver and Briggs, A Hebrew and English Lexicon of the Old Testament (1906), public domain

Sources

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