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Strong's #512 - אֶלְקשִׁי

Transliteration

ʼElqôshîy

Phonetics

el-ko-shee'

Root Word (Etymology)

patrial from a name of uncertain derivation

Parts of Speech

Adjective

TWOT

None

Definition

Brown-Driver-Briggs
Strong

Brown-Driver-Briggs'

Elkoshite = “God the ensnarer”

1) a native and/or descendant of Elkosh (location unknown)

Frequency Lists

Book
Word

Verse Results

KJV (1)

Nahum 1

NAS (1)

Nahum 1

HCS (1)

Nahum 1

BSB (1)

Nahum 1

ESV (1)

Nahum 1

WEB (1)

Nahum 1

Brown-Driver-Briggs Expanded Definition

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}.

Gesenius' Hebrew and Chaldee Definition

אֶלְקשִׁי gent. noun, Elkoshite, used of Nahum the prophet, Nahum 1:1. [“LXX. and Vulg. without o, Ἐλκεσαῖος, Elcesaius.”] Jerome (on the passage) mentions Elkosh as a village of Galilee, called Helkesei (or Elcesi), “sibique a circumducente monstratum.” Pseudepiphanius contends that Elcesi was a village of Judea, see Relandi Palæst. p. 627. However this may be, it would seem to have been a town of Palestine, not Assyria, although even now the Orientals make القوش [el-kûsh] near Mosul, the native place of the prophet. [“Both are very doubtful,” see Thes.]

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List of Word Forms

הָאֶלְקֹשִֽׁי׃ האלקשי׃ hā’elqōšî hā·’el·qō·šî haelkoShi