August, Dictionary of the Bible.

From: Good News for Young and Old: Volume 16 (1874)

E lelohe-Israel. — God the God of Israel (Gen. 33:20²⁰And he erected there an altar, and called it El-elohe-Israel. (Genesis 33:20)).

E’lparan.— The oak of Paran (Gen. 14:6⁶And the Horites in their mount Seir, unto El-paran, which is by the wilderness. (Genesis 14:6)).

E’ladah―God adorned, one of the sons of Ephraim (1 Chron. 7:20²⁰And the sons of Ephraim; Shuthelah, and Bered his son, and Tahath his son, and Eladah his son, and Tahath his son, (1 Chronicles 7:20)).

E’lah. ―A common name, one of the dukes mentioned in Genesis 36:41⁴¹Duke Aholibamah, duke Elah, duke Pinon, (Genesis 36:41).

E’lah. ―Father of Shimei (1 Kings 4:18¹⁸Shimei the son of Elah, in Benjamin: (1 Kings 4:18)).

E’lah, king of Israel, succeeded his father Baasha, and was killed in the second year of his reign by Zimri, the captain of half his chariots (1 Kings 16:9, 10⁹And his servant Zimri, captain of half his chariots, conspired against him, as he was in Tirzah, drinking himself drunk in the house of Arza steward of his house in Tirzah. ¹⁰And Zimri went in and smote him, and killed him, in the twenty and seventh year of Asa king of Judah, and reigned in his stead. (1 Kings 16:9‑10)).

E’lam. ―One of Shem’s sons (Gen. 10:22²²The children of Shem; Elam, and Asshur, and Arphaxad, and Lud, and Aram. (Genesis 10:22)).

E’lam. ―A province of the ancient Babylonian empire (Dan. 8:2²And I saw in a vision; and it came to pass, when I saw, that I was at Shushan in the palace, which is in the province of Elam; and I saw in a vision, and I was by the river of Ulai. (Daniel 8:2)).

Elam. — The name of a Levite; a Korhite, who, in the time of David, had a subordinate charge about the house of God (1 Chron. 26:3³Elam the fifth, Jehohanan the sixth, Elioenai the seventh. (1 Chronicles 26:3)).

E’lam. ―A chief man of the tribe of Benjamin (1 Chron. 8:24²⁴And Hananiah, and Elam, and Antothijah, (1 Chronicles 8:24)).

E’lam. ―Some person, otherwise unknown, who gave his name to a large party who accompanied Zerubbabel from Babylon (Ezra 2:7⁷The children of Elam, a thousand two hundred fifty and four. (Ezra 2:7)).

Elam. ―Another person called “the other Elam,” from whom a company of the same number, 1,254, derived their designation (Ezra 2:31³¹The children of the other Elam, a thousand two hundred fifty and four. (Ezra 2:31); Neh. 7:34³⁴The children of the other Elam, a thousand two hundred fifty and four. (Nehemiah 7:34)).

E’lam. ―A priest who took part with Nehemiah at the dedication of the second temple (Neh. 12:40-42⁴⁰So stood the two companies of them that gave thanks in the house of God, and I, and the half of the rulers with me: ⁴¹And the priests; Eliakim, Maaseiah, Miniamin, Michaiah, Elioenai, Zechariah, and Hananiah, with trumpets; ⁴²And Maaseiah, and Shemaiah, and Eleazar, and Uzzi, and Jehohanan, and Malchijah, and Elam, and Ezer. And the singers sang loud, with Jezrahiah their overseer. (Nehemiah 12:40‑42)).

E’lamites. ―Jews from Elam, mentioned in Acts 2:9⁹Parthians, and Medes, and Elamites, and the dwellers in Mesopotamia, and in Judea, and Cappadocia, in Pontus, and Asia, (Acts 2:9).

E’lasah or Eleasah, (God-made). — A man of the tribe of Judah; son of Helez (1 Chron. 2:39³⁹And Azariah begat Helez, and Helez begat Eleasah, (1 Chronicles 2:39)).

E’leasah. ―A man of the family of Saul by the line of Jonathan (1 Chron. 8:37³⁷And Moza begat Binea: Rapha was his son, Eleasah his son, Azel his son: (1 Chronicles 8:37)).

E’leasah. ―One of the family of Pashur, who married a Gentile wife (Ezra 10:22²²And of the sons of Pashur; Elioenai, Maaseiah, Ishmael, Nethaneel, Jozabad, and Elasah. (Ezra 10:22)).

E’lasah. ―A son of Shaphan who, along with another person, carried a letter from Zedekiah, king of Judah, to the king of Babylon, and took charge also of Jeremiah’s letter to the captives of Babylon (Jer. 29:3³By the hand of Elasah the son of Shaphan, and Gemariah the son of Hilkiah, (whom Zedekiah king of Judah sent unto Babylon to Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon) saying, (Jeremiah 29:3)).

E’lath or Eloth. ―Oaks, or terebinths (1 Kings 9:26²⁶And king Solomon made a navy of ships in Ezion-geber, which is beside Eloth, on the shore of the Red sea, in the land of Edom. (1 Kings 9:26)). Nothing special is mentioned of Elath till the days of Solomon; then we read, “Solomon made a navy of ships in Ezion-geber, which is bide Eloth, on the shore of the Red Sea, in the land of Edom.” Again we read, “Then went Solomon to Ezion-geber, and to Eloth, at the seaside, in the land of Edom.”

E’lath. ―2:8; 2 Kings 14:22; 16:6²²He built Elath, and restored it to Judah, after that the king slept with his fathers. (2 Kings 14:22)
⁶At that time Rezin king of Syria recovered Elath to Syria, and drave the Jews from Elath: and the Syrians came to Elath, and dwelt there unto this day. (2 Kings 16:6).

E’ldad (loved of God). — One of the seventy elders who had been appointed under Moses to assist in the administration of justice among the people. He is mentioned along with Medad, another elder, as having, on a particular occasion, prophesied in the camp, while Moses and the rest of the elders were assembled at the tabernacle. Joshua, the son of Nun, entreated Moses to forbid them, but Moses answered and said, “Enviest thou for my sake? Would God that all the Lord’s people were prophets, and that the Lord’s spirit was upon them” (Num. 11:28, 29²⁸And Joshua the son of Nun, the servant of Moses, one of his young men, answered and said, My lord Moses, forbid them. ²⁹And Moses said unto him, Enviest thou for my sake? would God that all the Lord's people were prophets, and that the Lord would put his spirit upon them! (Numbers 11:28‑29)).

E’lead. ―Son of Ephraim (1 Chron. 7:21²¹And Zabad his son, and Shuthelah his son, and Ezer, and Elead, whom the men of Gath that were born in that land slew, because they came down to take away their cattle. (1 Chronicles 7:21)).

E’ldaah, (God has called). — Son of Midian (Gen. 25:4⁴And the sons of Midian; Ephah, and Epher, and Hanoch, and Abida, and Eldaah. All these were the children of Keturah. (Genesis 25:4)).

Elders of Egypt (Gen. 1:7⁷And God made the firmament, and divided the waters which were under the firmament from the waters which were above the firmament: and it was so. (Genesis 1:7)).— Elders of the twelve tribes (Ex. 19:7⁷And Moses came and called for the elders of the people, and laid before their faces all these words which the Lord commanded him. (Exodus 19:7); Num. 11:16-24¹⁶And the Lord said unto Moses, Gather unto me seventy men of the elders of Israel, whom thou knowest to be the elders of the people, and officers over them; and bring them unto the tabernacle of the congregation, that they may stand there with thee. ¹⁷And I will come down and talk with thee there: and I will take of the spirit which is upon thee, and will put it upon them; and they shall bear the burden of the people with thee, that thou bear it not thyself alone. ¹⁸And say thou unto the people, Sanctify yourselves against to morrow, and ye shall eat flesh: for ye have wept in the ears of the Lord, saying, Who shall give us flesh to eat? for it was well with us in Egypt: therefore the Lord will give you flesh, and ye shall eat. ¹⁹Ye shall not eat one day, nor two days, nor five days, neither ten days, nor twenty days; ²⁰But even a whole month, until it come out at your nostrils, and it be loathsome unto you: because that ye have despised the Lord which is among you, and have wept before him, saying, Why came we forth out of Egypt? ²¹And Moses said, The people, among whom I am, are six hundred thousand footmen; and thou hast said, I will give them flesh, that they may eat a whole month. ²²Shall the flocks and the herds be slain for them, to suffice them? or shall all the fish of the sea be gathered together for them, to suffice them? ²³And the Lord said unto Moses, Is the Lord's hand waxed short? thou shalt see now whether my word shall come to pass unto thee or not. ²⁴And Moses went out, and told the people the words of the Lord, and gathered the seventy men of the elders of the people, and set them round about the tabernacle. (Numbers 11:16‑24)).

Elder.―Peter says, “The elders which are among you I exhort, who am also an elder, and a witness of the sufferings of Christ, and also a partaker of the glory that shall be revealed: feed the flock of God which is among you, taking the oversight thereof, not by constraint, but willingly; not for filthy lucre, but of a ready mind; neither as being lords over God’s heritage, but being examples to the flock.” Paul sent from Miletus to Ephesus, and called for the elders of the Church, and said, “Take heed therefore unto yourselves, and to all the flock, over the which the Holy Ghost hath made you overseers, to feed the Church of God, which He hath purchased with His own blood” (Acts 20:28: from this Scripture it appears that in Ephesus there were several elders in the Church; 1 Peter 5:1¹The elders which are among you I exhort, who am also an elder, and a witness of the sufferings of Christ, and also a partaker of the glory that shall be revealed: (1 Peter 5:1); 1 Tim. 5:17¹⁷Let the elders that rule well be counted worthy of double honor, especially they who labor in the word and doctrine. (1 Timothy 5:17)).