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Strong's #2243: Helias (pronounced hay-lee'-as)

of Hebrew origin (452); Helias (i.e. Elijah), an Israelite:--Elias.




Thayer's Greek Lexicon:

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Hēlias

Elijah = "my God is Jehovah"

1) a prophet born at Thisbe, the unflinching champion of the theocracy in the reigns of the idolatrous kings Ahab and Ahaziah. He was taken up to heaven without dying, whence the Jews expected he would return just before the advent of the Messiah, whom he would prepare the minds of the Israelites to receive.

Part of Speech: noun proper masculine

Relation: of Hebrew origin H452

Citing in TDNT: 2:928, 306




Usage:

This word is used 30 times:

Matthew 11:14: "receive it, this is Elijah, which was for to come."
Matthew 16:14: "the Baptist: some, Elijah; and others, Jeremiah,"
Matthew 17:3: "unto them Moses and Elijah talking with him."
Matthew 17:4: "for Moses, and one for Elijah."
Matthew 17:10: "the scribes that Elijah must first come"
Matthew 17:11: "answered and said unto them, Elijah truly shall first come, and"
Matthew 17:12: "I say unto you, That Elijah is come already, and they knew"
Matthew 27:47: "that, said, This man calleth for Elijah."
Matthew 27:49: "Let be, let us see whether Elijah will come to save him."
Mark 6:15: "said, That it is Elijah. And others said, That"
Mark 8:28: "Baptist: but some say, Elijah; and others, One of the"
Mark 9:4: "And there appeared unto them Elijah with Moses: and they were"
Mark 9:5: "for Moses, and one for Elijah."
Mark 9:11: "the scribes that Elijah must first come?"
Mark 9:12: "answered and told them, Elijah verily cometh first, and restoreth"
Mark 9:13: "I say unto you, That Elijah is indeed come, and they have done"
Mark 15:35: "it, said, Behold, he calleth Elijah."
Mark 15:36: "gave him to drink, saying, Let alone; let us see whether Elijah will come to take him down."
Luke 1:17: "in the spirit and power of Elijah, to turn the hearts of the fathers to"
Luke 4:25: "in the days of Elijah, when the heaven was shut up"
Luke 4:26: "unto none of them was Elijah sent, save unto Sarepta,"
Luke 9:8: "of some, that Elijah had appeared; and of others, that"
Luke 9:19: "Baptist; but some say, Elijah; and others say, that one"
Luke 9:30: "were Moses and Elijah:"
Luke 9:33: "for Moses, and one for Elijah: not knowing what he said."
Luke 9:54: "them, even as Elijah did?"
John 1:21: "then? Art thou Elijah? And he saith, I am not."
John 1:25: "not that Christ, nor Elijah, neither that prophet?"
Romans 11:2: "the Scripture saith of Elijah? how he maketh intercession to God"
James 5:17: " Elijah was a man subject to like passions as we are, and he prayed earnestly"









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