| E'lam. (eternity). This seems to have been originally, the name of a man, the son of Shem. Genesis 10:22; 1 Chronicles 1:17. Commonly, however, it is used as the appellation of a country. Genesis 14:1; Gen 14:9; Isaiah 11:11; Isa 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, v. 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, Genesis 10:10, and later by either Babylon or Assyria. Smith's Bible Dictionary or |
Occurences In Authorized Version
14 Verse(s)
Isaiah 11:11, Isa 21:2, Isa 22:6,
Jeremiah 25:25, Jer 49:34, Jer 49:35, Jer 49:36, Jer 49:37, Jer 49:38, Jer 49:39,