Word Summary
Elamitēs: an Elamite, an inhabitant of Elam
Original Word: ἘλαμίτηςTransliteration: Elamitēs
Phonetic Spelling: (el-am-ee'-tace)
Part of Speech: Noun, Masculine
Short Definition: an Elamite, an inhabitant of Elam
Meaning: Elamites -- an Elamite, an inhabitant of Elam
Strong's Concordance
Elamite.
Of Hebrew origin (Eylam); an Elamite or Persian -- Elamite.
see HEBREW Eylam
Thayer's Greek Lexicon
STRONGS NT 1639: ἘλαμίτηςἘλαμίτης (
T WH Ἐλαμειτης (see under the word
εἰ,
ἰ)),
Ἐλαμιτου,
ὁ,
an Elamite, i. e. an inhabitant of the province of Elymais, a region stretching southward to the Persian Gulf, but the boundaries of which are variously given (cf.
Winers RWB under the word Elam; Vaihinger in
Herzog iii., p. 747ff; Dillmann in
Schenkel ii., p. 91f; Schrader in Rheim, p. 358f; Grimm on 1 Macc. 6:1; (
BB. DD., see under the words,
, )): Acts 2:9. (Isaiah 21:2; in Greek writings Ἐλυμαῖος, and so Judith 1:6.)