Lexicon Elqoshi: a native of Elkosh Original Word: אֶלְקֹשִׁיPart of Speech: Adjective Transliteration: Elqoshi Phonetic Spelling: (el-ko-shee') Short Definition: Elkoshite NAS Exhaustive Concordance Word Originof uncertain derivation Definitiona native of Elkosh NASB TranslationElkoshite (1).
Brown-Driver-Briggs אֶלְקוֺשִׁי adjective, of a people with article Nahum the Elkoshite Nahum 1:1 (perhaps = from Elkosh, but locality unknown; identified by Jer Comm. with a village Elcesi in Galilee; compare also Capernaum (= כְּפַר נַחוּם ?); others (improbably) with an Elkosh on east bank of Tigris, near Mosul). **On etymology, and site of place, see Da Nahum, etc., 9 ff. GASm Twelve Proph. ii. 79f. Strong's Elkoshite Patrial from a name of uncertain derivation; an Elkoshite or native of Elkosh -- Elkoshite. |
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