Bible Dictionary: Elephantine

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Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary

(a.) Pertaining to the elephant, or resembling an elephant (commonly, in size); hence, huge; immense; heavy; as, of elephantine proportions; an elephantine step or tread.

International Standard Bible Encyclopedia

ELEPHANTINE

el-e-fan-ti'-ne.

See SEVENEH.

Greek

1661. elephantinos -- of ivory
... of ivory. From elephas (an "elephant"); elephantine, ie (by implication) composed
of ivory -- of ivory. (elephantinon) -- 1 Occurrence. 1660, 1661. ...
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Library

The End of Cambyses.
... Smerdis."Jealousy of Cambyses."The two magi."Cambyses suspicious."He plans an
invasion of Ethiopia."Island of Elephantine."The Icthyophagi ...
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Synod at Ephesus against Nestorius. His Deposition.
... by his pathetic entreaty that the imperial authorities would not be less merciful
than the barbarians, ordered some soldiers to convey him to Elephantine. ...
/.../chapter xxxiv synod at ephesus against.htm

Editor's Preface
... At Elephantine, I found, a short time since, on a granite boulder, an inscription
of Khufuankh"whose sarcophagus of red granite is one of the most beautiful ...
/.../history of egypt chaldaea syria babylonia and assyria v 1/editors preface.htm

History Of Egypt, Chaldaea, Syria, Babylonia, and Assyria, V 5
... reign -- The great building works -- The temples of Nubia: Soleb and his sanctuary
built by Amenothes III, Gebel Barkal, Elephantine -- The beautifying of ...
/.../history of egypt chaldaea syria babylonia and assyria v 5/title page.htm

The Last Days of the Old Eastern World
... Delta, the inhabitants of the marshes"Memphis, its monuments, its population"Travels
in Upper Egypt: the Fayum, Khemmis, Thebes, Elephantine"The apparent ...
/.../chapter iithe last days of.htm

Volume ii. , Part B. The Memphite Empire
... Shaitu and the country of Tiba"Metesuphis I. and the second Papi: progress of the
Egyptian power in Nubia"the lords of Elephantine; Hirkhuf, Papinakhiti ...
/.../volume ii part b the.htm

The Christian View of the Old Testament
... Devotional literature, 17 f., 242 f. Divine element, 26 ff. Doctrinal value, 257
f. Ecclesiastes, 250 f. Elephantine, 141. Eponym lists, 153. Esarhaddon, 140. ...
/.../eiselen/the christian view of the old testament/index 2.htm

It is the Same in the Case of Girls. ...
... the populace in the popular education. There is nothing but plodding,
elaborate, elephantine imitation. And just as in the case ...
/.../chesterton/whats wrong with the world/chapter 41 it is the.htm

Episcopal Conspirators
... It was Maruthas, Bishop of Mesopotamia. He was a man of slouching gait
and elephantine proportions, who wore heavy boots. Cyrinus ...
/.../chapter xlv episcopal conspirators.htm

But, that we May not Pass Without Notice what Celsus Has Said ...
... a part of Egypt, which was watered by the inundation of the Nile, and that those
were Egyptians who dwell to the south of the city of Elephantine, and drink of ...
/.../origen/origen against celsus/chapter xxxiv but that we.htm

Thesaurus

Elephantine
... (a.) Pertaining to the elephant, or resembling an elephant (commonly, in size);
hence, huge; immense; heavy; as, of elephantine proportions; an ...ELEPHANTINE. ...
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Sanballat (10 Occurrences)
... been awakened in Sanballat from the fact that he is mentioned in the papyri I and
II of Sachau (Die aramaischen Papyrusurkunden aus Elephantine, Berlin, 1908 ...
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Dispersion (4 Occurrences)
... papyri were discovered in 1904, and a year or two later, additional papyri were
discovered in a mound which stands on the site of the ancient Elephantine or Yeb ...
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Cambyses
... king under the claim that he was "Barzia, the son of Cyrus and brother of Cambyses."
The name of Cambyses is found in three of the Elephantine papyri recently ...
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Aramaic (12 Occurrences)
... Peculiarities 6. Comparison of Aramaic of Sinjirli with That of Bible 7. Comparison
of Aramaic of Assouan with That of Daniel 8. Elephantine Papyri 9 ...
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Sanctuary (250 Occurrences)
... The Altar of God's House (5) Local Altars in Deuteronomy 4. The Alternative View
(1) Lay Sacrifice (2) Three Pilgrimage Festivals 5. The Elephantine Papyri The ...
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Nehemiah (9 Occurrences)
... It is certain, however, that he was no longer governor in 407 BC; for at that time
according to the Aramaic letter written from Elephantine to the priests of ...
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Number (2370 Occurrences)
... that these or similar signs were known to the Jews, but actual proof was not
forthcoming until the discovery of Jewish papyri at Assuan and Elephantine in 1904 ...
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Papyrus (4 Occurrences)
... 3. Aramaic Papyri: In very recent years (1898, 1904, 1907) several Aramaic papyri
have been found on the Island of Elephantine, just below the First Cataract ...
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Language (112 Occurrences)
... Peculiarities 6. Comparison of Aramaic of Sinjirli with That of Bible 7. Comparison
of Aramaic of Assouan with That of Daniel 8. Elephantine Papyri 9 ...
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Subtopics

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