Strongs Number: H5867
- Hebrew Word
- עֵילָם
- Transliteration
- ʻÊylâm
- Phonetic
- ay-lawm'
- Part of Speech
- Strongs Definition
-
{hidden} that {is} distant; {Elam} a son of {Shem} and his {descendants} with their country; also of six Israelites
- BDB Definition
-
Elam = "eternity" n pr m
1. a Korhite Levite in the time of David
2. a chief man of the tribe of Benjamin
3. ancestor of a family of exiles who returned with Zerubbabel
4. a chief of the people who signed the covenant with Nehemiah
5. another ancestor of another family of exiles who returned with Zerubbabel
6. a priest who assisted at the dedication of the wall of Jerusalem in the time of Nehemiah
7. another head of a family of returning exiles n pr loc
8. a province east of Babylon and northeast of the lower Tigris
- Origin
- Probably from H5956
- Bible Usage
- Elam.