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'Eylam

'Eylam {ay-lawm'} or 'Owlam (Ezra 10:2; Jeremiah 49:36) {o-lawm'}
Hebrew:

Possible Definitions:
Elam = "eternity"
personal noun masculine
1) a Korhite Levite in the time of David
2) a chief man of the tribe of Benjamin
3) ancestor of a family of exiles who returned with Zerubbabel
4) a chief of the people who signed the covenant with Nehemiah
5) another ancestor of another family of exiles who returned with Zerubbabel
6) a priest who assisted at the dedication of the wall of Jerusalem in the time of Nehemiah
7) another head of a family of returning exiles
personal noun location
8) a province east of Babylon and northeast of the lower Tigris

'Eylam {ay-lawm'} or 'Owlam (Ezra 10:2; Jeremiah 49:36) {o-lawm'}

Hebrew:

probably from 5956;

Strong's Number 5867

Theological Wordbook of the Old Testament - omitted