Lexical Summary Elqoshi: a native of Elkosh Original Word: אֶלְקשִׁיTransliteration: Elqoshi Phonetic Spelling: (el-ko-shee') Part of Speech: Adjective Short Definition: a native of Elkosh Meaning: Elkoshite -- a native of Elkosh Strong's Concordance Elkoshite Patrial from a name of uncertain derivation; an Elkoshite or native of Elkosh -- Elkoshite. Brown-Driver-Briggs H512. Elqoshi אֶלְקוֺשִׁי adjective, of a people with article Nahum the Elkoshite Nahum 1:1 (perhaps = from Elkosh, but locality unknown; identified by JerComm. with a village Elcesi in Galilee; compare also Capernaum (= נַחוּם כְּפַר ?); others (improbably) with an Elkosh on east bank of Tigris, near Mosul). **On etymology, and site of place, see DaNahum, etc., 9 ff. GASmTwelve Proph. ii. 79f. |
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