Biblical Hebrew

hebrew #473 - אֱלִישָׁה Elishah (a son of Javan)

Original Word:	אֱלִישָׁה
Transliteration:	Elishah
Definition:	a son of Javan, also his desc. and their land
Part of Speech:	Proper Name Masculine
Phonetic Spelling:	(el-ee-shaw')
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Strong's Exhaustive Concordance

Elishah

Probably of foreign derivation; Elishah, a son of Javan -- Elishah.

Englishman's Concordance

Elishah=“God of the coming (one)”
1) descendant of Noah, son of Javan; perhaps ancestor of the Aeolians
Part of Speech: noun proper masculine
A Related Word by BDB/Strong’s Number: probably of foreign derivation

Brown-Driver-Briggs

אֲלִישָׁהproper name, of a location as son of JavanGenesis 10:4; 1 Chronicles 1:7; ׳אִיֵּי אEzekiel 27:7 (Aeolis Josephus Jerome Kn; H. Derenbourg^{Mélanges Graux, 235 f (English translation Hebraica. Oct. 1887, 7)}; Hellasᵑ7^Jon etc., Len^{Orig. ii. 2. 34 f}; Italy, with Sicily, compare מְדִינַת אִיטַלְיָאᵑ7 Ezek, Di Genesis 10:4; Carthage=Elissa, Sta^{De Populo Javan, 8 f}; EMey^{Geschichte i. § 282}; decision difficult; last view very attractive).

I. [אלל] (to be weak or insufficient, assumed in Thes as root of אֱלִיל (as also of אַל): compare Arabic to fail in a thing).

Englishman's Concordance (References)

Strong's Hebrew: 473. אֱלִישָׁה (Elishah) — 3 Occurrences

Genesis 10:4
HEB:וּבְנֵ֥י יָוָ֖ן אֱלִישָׁ֣ה וְתַרְשִׁ֑ישׁ כִּתִּ֖ים
NAS: of Javan [were] Elishah and Tarshish,
KJV: of Javan; Elishah, and Tarshish,
INT: the sons of Javan Elishah and Tarshish Kittim

1 Chronicles 1:7
HEB:וּבְנֵ֥י יָוָ֖ן אֱלִישָׁ֣ה וְתַרְשִׁ֑ישָׁה כִּתִּ֖ים
NAS: of Javan [were] Elishah, Tarshish,
KJV: of Javan; Elishah, and Tarshish,
INT: the sons of Javan Elishah Tarshish Kittim

Ezekiel 27:7
HEB:וְאַרְגָּמָ֛ן מֵאִיֵּ֥י אֱלִישָׁ֖ה הָיָ֥ה מְכַסֵּֽךְ׃
NAS: from the coastlands of Elishah.
KJV: from the isles of Elishah was that which covered
INT: and purple the coastlands of Elishah became your awning

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