Dict: smith - ELAM

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ELAM - E>@ - (eternity). This seems to have been originally the name of a man, the son of Shem. kjv@Genesis:10:22; kjv@1Chronicles:1:17) Commonly, however, it is used as the appellation of a country. kjv@Genesis:14:1 kjv@Genesis:14:9 kjv@Isaiah:11:11 kjv@Isaiah:21:2) The Elam of Scripture appears to be the province lying south of Assyria and east of Persia proper, to which Herodotus gives the name of Cissia (iii. 91, kjv@5:49, etc.), and which is termed Susis or Susiana by the geographers. Its capital was Susa. This country was originally people by descendants of Shem. By the time of Abraham a very important power had been built up in the same region. It is plain that at this early time the predominant power in lower Mesopotamia was Elam, which for a while held the place possessed earlier by Babylon, kjv@Genesis:10:10) and later by either Babylon or Assyria. A Korhite Levite in the time of King David. ( kjv@1Chronicles:26:3) (B.C. 1014.) A chief man of the tribe of Benjamin. ( kjv@1Chronicles:8:24) "Children of Elam," to the number of 1254, returned with Zerubbabel from Babylon. kjv@Ezra:2:7; kjv@Nehemiah:7:12) 1Esd. kjv@5:12. (B.C. 536 or before.) Elam occurs amongst the names of the chief of the people who signed the covenant with Nehemiah. kjv@Nehemiah:10:14) In the same lists is a second Elam, whose sons, to the same number as in the former case, returned with Zerubbabel, kjv@Ezra:2:31; kjv@Nehemiah:7:34) and which for the sake of distinction is called "the other Elam." One of the priests who accompanied Nehemiah at the dedication of the new wall of Jerusalem. kjv@Nehemiah:12:42)

ELAMITES - E>@ - This word is found only in kjv@Ezra:4:9) The Elamites were the original inhabitants of the country called Elam; they were descendants of Shem, and perhaps drew their name from an actual man Elam. kjv@Genesis:10:22)