Strong's Number 5867

The Linked Word Project
Transliteration:
`Eylam {ay-lawm'} or `Owlam (Ezr 10:2; Jer 49:36) {o-lawm'}
Word Origin:
probably from 5956
Part of Speech:
Usage in the KJV:
Elam 28

Total: 28
Definition:
Elam = "eternity" n pr m
  1. a Korhite Levite in the time of David
  2. a chief man of the tribe of Benjamin
  3. ancestor of a family of exiles who returned with Zerubbabel
  4. a chief of the people who signed the covenant with Nehemiah
  5. another ancestor of another family of exiles who returned with Zerubbabel
  6. a priest who assisted at the dedication of the wall of Jerusalem in the time of Nehemiah
  7. another head of a family of returning exiles n pr loc
  8. a province east of Babylon and northeast of the lower Tigris
TDNT - Theological Dictionary of the New Testament
TWOT - Theological Word Book of the Old Testament