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title: אֶלְקֹשִׁי — Elkoshite · The Tanakh dictionary
description: אֶלְקֹשִׁי (512), a word of Biblical Hebrew, used 1 times: Elkoshite. BDB 1906: adj.gent. Elkoshite. With 1 verse in Hebrew, word for word and JPS 1917.
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# אֶלְקֹשִׁי

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«אֶלְקֹשִׁי» in the Tanakh dictionary: **Elkoshite** — 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:** 512 · **BDB:** אֶלְקֹשִׁי

### Glosses

Elkoshite (1)

### Meaning (OSHB)

Elkoshite [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1488/512/#m1)

### Meaning (BDB 1906)

adj.gent. Elkoshite [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1488/512/#m2)

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**The whole BDB entry:** adj.gent. c. art. Nahum the Elkoshite Na 1:1 (perhaps = from Elkosh, but locality unknown; identified by JerComm. with a village Elcesi in Galilee; cf. also Capernaum (= כְּפַר נַחוּם?) Elkosh near Mosul improbable; on etymol., and site of place, v. DaNahum, etc., 9 ff. GASmTwelve Proph. ii. 79f.).

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

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every English meaning of «אֶלְקֹשִׁי» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1488/512/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.

### In the verses

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[Nahum 1:1](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/NAM.1.1/)

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מַשָּׂ֖א נִֽינְוֵ֑ה סֵ֧פֶר חֲז֛וֹן נַח֖וּם הָאֶלְקֹשִֽׁי׃

*Word for word:* the.oracle of.Nineveh the.document of.the.vision of.Nahum the Elkoshite

*JPS 1917:* THE BURDEN of Nineveh. The book of the vision of Nahum the Elkoshite.

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