Strong H5867H5867Bעֵילָם

Elam

Transliteration: ‛êylâm ‛ôlâm
Pronunciation: {ay-lawm'} o-lawm'
Morphology: Proper Name (Masculine) of a Person

Definition

A man living at the time of Exile and Return, first mentioned at Ezr.2.7

Meaning of the name

Elam = "eternity"

General definition

Probably from H5956; {hidden} that {is} distant;
{Elam} a son of {Shem} and his {descendants} with their country; also of six Israelites: - Elam.

In the biblical story

Elam

Ancestor of exiles who returned to Jerusalem

Elam was the ancestor of a group of exiles who returned to Jerusalem.

In the Bible

Strong H5867B appears in 7 verses of the KJV.

Translated in the KJV by

elam7

First verses

Ezra 2:7
The children of Elam, a thousand two hundred fifty and four.
Ezra 2:31
The children of the other Elam, a thousand two hundred fifty and four.
Ezra 8:7
And of the sons of Elam; Jeshaiah the son of Athaliah, and with him seventy males.
Ezra 10:2
And Shechaniah the son of Jehiel, one of the sons of Elam, answered and said unto Ezra, We have trespassed against our God, and have taken strange wives of the people of the land: yet now there is hope in Israel concerning this thing.
Ezra 10:26
And of the sons of Elam; Mattaniah, Zechariah, and Jehiel, and Abdi, and Jeremoth, and Eliah.
Nehemiah 7:12
The children of Elam, a thousand two hundred fifty and four.
Nehemiah 7:34
The children of the other Elam, a thousand two hundred fifty and four.

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