Lexical Summary Elishah: a son of Javan, also his desc. and their land Original Word: אֱלִישָׁהTransliteration: Elishah Phonetic Spelling: (el-ee-shaw') Part of Speech: Proper Name Masculine Short Definition: a son of Javan, also his desc. and their land Meaning: Elishah -- a son of Javan, also his descendants and their land Strong's Concordance Elishah Probably of foreign derivation; Elishah, a son of Javan -- Elishah. Brown-Driver-Briggs H473. Elishah אֲלִישָׁה proper name, of a location as son of Javan Genesis 10:4; 1 Chronicles 1:7; א ׳אִיֵּי Ezekiel 27:7 (Aeolis Josephus Jerome Kn; H. DerenbourgMélanges Graux, 235 f (English translation Hebraica. Oct. 1887, 7); Hellas ᵑ7Jon etc., LenOrig. ii. 2. 34 f; Italy, with Sicily, compare ᵑ7 אִיטַלְיָא מְדִינַת Ezek, Di Genesis 10:4; Carthage = Elissa, StaDe Populo Javan, 8 f; EMeyGeschichte 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). |
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