Elephant

International Standard Bible Encyclopedia · James Orr and contributors

el'-e-fant

(Job 40:15 the King James Version margin, the American Revised Version, margin "hippopotamus," the Revised Version (British and American) "ivory"); 1Ki 10:22 the King James Version margin; 2Ch 9:21 the King James Version; /APC 1Macc 3:34; 6:28 ff; 8:6 Possibly in Job it is the extinct mammoth.

See BEHEMOTH; IVORY.

In other dictionaries

Read “Elephant” in the 2 dictionaries

ElephantEaston’s Bible Dictionary & Webster’s 1828 Dictionary

Source of the article

International Standard Bible Encyclopedia — James Orr, general editor and contributors; CrossWire SWORD module ISBE 2.2

Bible Strong digital edition from CrossWire module 2.2; historical scholarship originally published in 1915