Strong's #5867: `Eylam (pronounced ay-lawm')
or mOwlam (Ezra 10:2; Jeremiah 49:36) {o-lawm'}; probably from 5956; hidden, i.e. distant; Elam, a son of Shem and his descendants, with their country; also of six Israelites:--Elam.
Brown-Driver-Briggs Hebrew Lexicon:
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‛êylâm / ‛ôlâm
Elam = "eternity"
1) a Korhite Levite in the time of David (noun proper masculine)
2) a chief man of the tribe of Benjamin (noun proper masculine)
3) ancestor of a family of exiles who returned with Zerubbabel (noun proper masculine)
4) a chief of the people who signed the covenant with Nehemiah (noun proper masculine)
5) another ancestor of another family of exiles who returned with Zerubbabel (noun proper masculine)
6) a priest who assisted at the dedication of the wall of Jerusalem in the time of Nehemiah (noun proper masculine)
7) another head of a family of returning exiles (noun proper masculine)
8) a province east of Babylon and northeast of the lower Tigris (noun proper locative)
Part of Speech: see above in Definition
Usage:
This word is used 28 times:
Genesis 10:22: "The children of Shem; Elam, and Asshur, and Arphaxad, and Lud, and Aram."
Genesis 14:1: "of Ellasar, Chedorlaomer king of Elam, and Tidal king of nations;"
Genesis 14:9: "With Chedorlaomer the king of Elam, and with Tidal king of nations, and Amraphel"
1 Chronicles 1:17: "The sons of Shem; Elam, and Asshur, and Arphaxad, and Lud, and Aram, and Uz,"
1 Chronicles 8:24: "And Hananiah, and Elam, and Antothijah,"
1 Chronicles 26:3: " Elam the fifth, Jehohanan the sixth, Elioenai the seventh."
Ezra 2:7: "The children of Elam, a thousand two hundred fifty and four."
Ezra 2:31: "The children of the other Elam, a thousand two hundred fifty and four."
Ezra 8:7: "And of the sons of Elam; Jeshaiah the son of Athaliah, and with him seventy"
Ezra 10:2: "the son of Jehiel, one of the sons of Elam, answered and said unto Ezra,"
Ezra 10:26: "And of the sons of Elam; Mattaniah, Zechariah, and Jehiel, and Abdi, and Jeremoth,"
Nehemiah 7:12: "The children of Elam, a thousand two hundred fifty and four."
Nehemiah 7:34: "The children of the other Elam, a thousand two hundred fifty and four."
Nehemiah 10:14: "of the people; Parosh, Pahath-moab, Elam, Zatthu, Bani,"
Nehemiah 12:42: "and Uzzi, and Jehohanan, and Malchijah, and Elam, and Ezer. And the singers sang loud, with Jezrahiah"
Isaiah 11:11: "from Assyria, and from Egypt, and from Pathros, and from Cush,"
Isaiah 21:2: "and the spoiler spoileth. Go up, O Elam: besiege, O Media; all the sighing"
Isaiah 22:6: " And Elam bore the quiver with chariots of men and horsemen, and Kir uncovered"
Jeremiah 25:25: "of Zimri, and all the kings of Elam, and all the kings of the Medes,"
Jeremiah 49:34: "Jeremiah the prophet against Elam in the beginning of the reign of Zedekiah king"
Jeremiah 49:35: "I will break the bow of Elam, the chief of their might."
Jeremiah 49:36: "And upon Elam will I bring the four winds from the four quarters"
Jeremiah 49:36: "no nation whither the outcasts of Elam shall not come."
Jeremiah 49:37: "For I will cause Elam to be dismayed before their enemies, and before them that seek their life:"
Jeremiah 49:38: "And I will set my throne in Elam, and will destroy from thence the king and the princes,"
Jeremiah 49:39: "that I will bring again the captivity of Elam, saith the LORD."
Ezekiel 32:24: "There is Elam and all her multitude round about her grave, all of them slain,"
Daniel 8:2: "in the palace, which is in the province of Elam; and I saw in a vision, and I was"
