Lexicon Elishah: a son of Javan, also his desc. and their land Original Word: אֱלִישָׁהPart of Speech: Proper Name Masculine Transliteration: Elishah Phonetic Spelling: (el-ee-shaw') Short Definition: Elishah NAS Exhaustive Concordance Word Originof foreign origin Definitiona son of Javan, also his desc. and their land NASB TranslationElishah (3).
Brown-Driver-Briggs אֲלִישָׁה proper name, of a location as son of Javan Genesis 10:4; 1 Chronicles 1:7; ׳אִיֵּי א Ezekiel 27:7 ( Aeolis Josephus Jerome Kn; H. Derenbourg Mélanges Graux, 235 f (English translation Hebraica. Oct. 1887, 7); Hellas ᵑ7Jon etc., Len Orig. ii. 2. 34 f; Italy, with Sicily, compare מְדִינַת אִיטַלְיָא ᵑ7 Ezek, Di Genesis 10:4; Carthage = Elissa, Sta De Populo Javan, 8 f; EMey Geschichte 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).
Strong's Elishah Probably of foreign derivation; Elishah, a son of Javan -- Elishah. |
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