- Elath
- geographical name — see Aqaba
New Collegiate Dictionary. 2001.
Elath
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ELATH — (in modern Israel, Eilat; Heb. אֵילַת, אֵילֹת, אֵיוֹת), ancient harbor town in Transjordan at the northern end of the Red Sea near ezion geber . Elath is first mentioned in the account of the Israelites wanderings in the desert during the Exodus… … Encyclopedia of Judaism
Elath — (Hebrew: hebrew|אֵילַת; Tiberian: unicode|ʼÊlạṯ; Standard: unicode|Elat) is an ancient city in the Hebrew Bible on the northern tip of the Gulf of Aqaba. It was in the same vicinity as Eloth and Eziongeber. *Historically, the city of Aqaba,… … Wikipedia
Elath — Elath, einheimischer Name von Älana (s. d.) … Meyers Großes Konversations-Lexikon
Elath — Elath, s. Elana … Kleines Konversations-Lexikon
ELATH — urbs regni Edom, in littore maris rubri sita, unde et ex Aegypto in Indiam, et inde in Aegyptum, navigatur, quam transiêrunt filii Israel, de Hesiongeber. Deut. c. 2. v. 8. Lat. cerva, sive fortitudo, aut ilex, vel quercus … Hofmann J. Lexicon universale
Elath — Aqaba ʿAqaba Al ʿAqaba, العقبة Forteresse d Aqaba. Administration … Wikipédia en Français
ELATH (Epstein), ELIAHU — (1903–1990), Israeli diplomat and Arabist. Born in Snovsk, Russia, Elath was active in the Zionist movement in Russia before settling in Palestine in 1924. He worked as a laborer in a number of settlements for a few years, meanwhile making a… … Encyclopedia of Judaism
Elath — /ay laht /, n. Eilat. * * * … Universalium
Elath — Grove; trees, (Deut. 2:8), also in plural form Eloth (1 Kings 9:26, etc.); called by the Greeks and Romans Elana; a city of Idumea, on the east, i.e., the Elanitic, gulf, or the Gulf of Akabah, of the Red Sea. It is first mentioned in Deut.… … Easton's Bible Dictionary
Elath — E•lath [[t]eɪˈlɑt[/t]] n. geg Elat … From formal English to slang
