Dict: smith - ELLASAR

smith:

ELLASAR - E>@ - (oak), the city of Arioch, kjv@Genesis:14:1) seems to be the Hebrew representative of the old Chaldean town called in the native dialect Larsa or Larancha . Larsa was a town of lower Babylonia or Chaldea, situated nearly halfway between Ur (Mugheir) and Erech (Warka), on the left bank of the Euphrates. It is now Senkereh.