Lexical Definition

‎אֵילוֹת‎ ʼÊylôwth (ay-loth') Elath ^N:N--L
or אֵילַת ʼÊylath (ay-lath') ; from ‎אַיִל‎; trees or a grove (i.e. palms)

Elath, Eloth.

• § Elath or Eloth = "grove of lofty trees"
• Eloth or Elath, a place on the Red Sea

1) a port on the north-east arm of the Red Sea

Brown-Driver-Briggs

‎אֵילַת‎ proper name, of a location (lofty tree (s collective?) i.e. palms? compare Di Gen 14:6) town & harbour, northeast arm of Red Sea, hence called lanitic Gulf (= Gulf of Akaba, from neighbouring fortress) Deut 2:8; 2Kgs 14:22; 2Kgs 16:6 (twice in verse) (perhaps later designation for fuller ‎איל פארן‎ q. v.) = ᵐ5 Αἰλων, Αἰλαθ Greek Αἰλανα etc.; = ‎אֵלָה‎ (? Gen 36:41 see Di), ‎אֵילוֺת‎ below

‎אֵילוֺת‎ proper name, of a location id. (grove of lofty trees (palms?)) 1Kgs 9:26; 2Kgs 16:6; 2Chr 8:17; 2Chr 26:2 (compare ‎אֵיל פָּאוָן‎, ‎אֵילַת‎).

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