hebrew #512 - אֶלְקשִׁי Elqoshi (a native of Elkosh)
Strong's Exhaustive Concordance Elkoshite Patrial from a name of uncertain derivation; an Elkoshite or native of Elkosh -- Elkoshite. Englishman's Concordance Elkoshite=“God the ensnarer” 1) a native and/or descendant of Elkosh (location unknown) Part of Speech: adjective A Related Word by BDB/Strong’s Number: patrial from a name of uncertain derivation Brown-Driver-Briggsאֶלְקוֺשִׁיadjective, of a people with article Nahum the Elkoshite Nahum 1:1 (perhaps=from Elkosh, but locality unknown; identified by JerComm. with a village Elcesi in Galilee; compare also Capernaum (=כְּפַר נַחוּם ?); others (improbably) with an Elkosh on east bank of Tigris, near Mosul). **On etymology, and site of place, see DaNahum, etc., 9 ff. GASmTwelve Proph. ii. 79f. Englishman's Concordance (References) |