Elam in Smiths Bible Dictionary
(eternity).
1. This seems to have been originally the name of a
man, the son of Shem. Ge 10:22; 1Ch 1:17 Commonly, however,
it is used as the appellation of a country. Ge 14:1,9; Isa
11:11; 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, Ge 10:10 and later by either
Babylon or Assyria.
2. A Korhite Levite in the time of King David. 1Ch
26:3 (B.C. 1014.)
3. A chief man of the tribe of Benjamin. 1Ch 8:24
4. "Children of Elam," to the number of 1254,
returned with Zerubbabel from Babylon. Ezr 2:7; Ne 7:12
1Esd. 5:12. (B.C. 536 or before.) Elam occurs
amongst the names of the chief of the people who signed the
covenant with Nehemiah. Ne 10:14
5. In the same lists is a second Elam, whose sons,
to the same number as in the former case, returned with
Zerubbabel, Ezr 2:31; Ne 7:34 and which for the sake of
distinction is called "the other Elam."
6. One of the priests who accompanied Nehemiah at
the dedication of the new wall of Jerusalem. Ne 12:42
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