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title: אֵילִם — Elim · The Tanakh dictionary
description: אֵילִם (362), a word of Biblical Hebrew, used 6 times: Elim. BDB 1906: n.pr.loc. With 2 verses in Hebrew, word for word and JPS 1917.
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# אֵילִם

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«אֵילִם» in the Tanakh dictionary: **Elim** — how often it is used, MACULA's glosses, its meanings in the printed dictionaries and why they were chosen, and 2 verses in layers.

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**Used:** 6 times · **Key:** 362 · **BDB:** אֵילִים

### Glosses

Elim (4); to (2)

### Meaning (OSHB)

Elim [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1488/362/#m1)

### Meaning (BDB 1906)

n.pr.loc. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1488/362/#m2)

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**The whole BDB entry:** always אֵילִם n.pr.loc. (= place of terebinths or other great trees, v. Di Gn 14:6 \& Ex 15:27 (12 fountains \& 70 palms)) 2nd station of Isr. in desert after passing sea Ex 16:1(×2) Nu 33:9, 10; אֵי֫לִמָה Ex 15:27 Nu 33:9; prob. = Wady Gharandel cf. RobBR i. 100, 105.

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Why these entries: BDB: same consonants, part of speech agrees, 4 of its verses cited, 0 words shared with the glosses, lists its Strong's number (12 candidates); OSHB: headword, part of speech agrees, 0 words shared with the BDB entry, 1 with the glosses (8 candidates)

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every English meaning of «אֵילִם» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1488/362/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.

### In the verses

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[Numbers 33:10](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/NUM.33.10/)

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וַיִּסְע֖וּ מֵאֵילִ֑ם וַֽיַּחֲנ֖וּ עַל־יַם־סֽוּף׃

*Word for word:* and they.set.out from Elim and they.encamped at \[the\].sea of.reed\[s\]

*JPS 1917:* And they journeyed from Elim, and pitched by the Red Sea.

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[Exodus 15:27](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/EXO.15.27/)

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וַיָּבֹ֣אוּ אֵילִ֔מָה וְשָׁ֗ם שְׁתֵּ֥ים עֶשְׂרֵ֛ה עֵינֹ֥ת מַ֖יִם וְשִׁבְעִ֣ים תְּמָרִ֑ים וַיַּחֲנוּ־שָׁ֖ם עַל־הַמָּֽיִם׃

*Word for word:* and they.came to Elim and.\[were\] there two.plus ten springs of.water and seventy palm.trees and they.encamped there at the water

*JPS 1917:* And they came to Elim, where were twelve springs of water, and three score and ten palm-trees; and they encamped there by the waters.

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