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title: אֵלָא — Elah · The Tanakh dictionary
description: אֵלָא (414), a word of Biblical Hebrew, used 1 times: Elah. BDB 1906: n.pr.m. With 1 verse in Hebrew, word for word and JPS 1917.
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# אֵלָא

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«אֵלָא» in the Tanakh dictionary: **Elah** — how often it is used, MACULA's glosses, its meanings in the printed dictionaries and why they were chosen, and 1 verse in layers.

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**Used:** 1 times · **Key:** 414 · **BDB:** אֵלָא

### Glosses

of.Ela (1)

### Meaning (OSHB)

Elah [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1488/414/#m1)

### Meaning (BDB 1906)

n.pr.m. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1488/414/#m2)

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**The whole BDB entry:** n.pr.m. father of an officer of Solomon 1 K 4:18 (= ii. אֵלָה terebinth?).

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

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every English meaning of «אֵלָא» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1488/414/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.

### In the verses

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[1 Kings 4:18](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/1KI.4.18/)

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שִׁמְעִ֥י בֶן־אֵלָ֖א בְּבִנְיָמִֽן׃ס

*Word for word:* Shimei the.son of.Ela in Benjamin

*JPS 1917:* Shimei the son of Ela, in Benjamin;

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