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Strong's #425 - אֵלָה
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- Elah = "An oak"
- an Edomite chief
- a king of Israel for two years, son of Baasha
- the father of king Hoshea of Israel
- a son of Caleb
- son of Uzzi
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1 a chief of Edom Genesis 36:41 = 1 Chronicles 1:52 (= אֵילַת proper name, of a location ? see Di).
2 son of Baasha; reigned two years in Israel 1 Kings 16:6,8,13,14.
3 father of Hoshea who was last king of Isr. 2 Kings 15:30; 2 Kings 17:1; 2 Kings 18:1,9.
4 a son of Caleb 1 Chronicles 4:15 (twice in verse).
5 a son of Uzzi 1 Chronicles 9:8.
אֵלָה f. i.q. אֵיל No. 2 (from the root אוּל), a strong hardy tree, specially the terebinth (Pistacia Terebinthus, Linn.), a tree common in Palestine, long-lived, and on that account often used in designating places (Genesis 35:4; Judges 6:11, 19 Judges 6:19). According to Pliny (xvi. 12), an evergreen; but this is contradicted by modern botanists. The ancient versions sometimes render it terebinth, sometimes oak (see the further remarks in Thes. page 50, 1); and the word appears, in a wider sense, to be used of any large tree, like the Gr. δρῦς. [The modern name of the terebinth is بطم butm, Robinson, iii. 15.]
