Elymais
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ELYMAIS

el-i-ma'-is (Elumais):

This name, representing the Old Testament Elam (see ELAM), was given to a district of Persia lying South of Media and North of Susiana. In APC 1Macc 6:1 the common reading, which is adopted by the King James Version, refers to Elymais as a rich city in Persia. No other reference, however, to such a city is found except in Josephus (Ant., XII, ix, 1) who simply follows 1 Maccabees. The text should therefore be corrected to read as in the Revised Version (British and American), "in Elymais in Persia there was a city."

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Concerning the Death of Antiochus Epiphane. How Antiochus Eupator ...
... this time it was that king Antiochus, as he was going over the upper countries,
heard that there was a very rich city in Persia, called Elymais; and therein a ...
/.../josephus/the antiquities of the jews/chapter 9 concerning the death.htm

The Syrian Persecution.
... The tribute he had to pay to Rome quite ruined him; and while he was trying to rob
an idol temple at Elymais, the people rose on him and slew him, in the year ...
/.../yonge/the chosen people/lesson xvii the syrian persecution.htm

The First Chaldaean Empire and the Hyksos in Egypt
... The Greek form of the name is Elymais, and some of the classical geographers were
well enough acquainted with the meaning of the word to be able to distinguish ...
/.../chapter ithe first chaldaean empire.htm

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Elymais
...ELYMAIS. ... In APC 1Macc 6:1 the common reading, which is adopted by the King
James Version, refers to Elymais as a rich city in Persia. ...
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Naomi (25 Occurrences)
... But 1 Maccabees 1;, which is more reliable, gives a different account of the death
of Epiphanes after an attempt to rob a rich temple in Elymais. ...
/n/naomi.htm - 17k

Nanaea
... But 1 Maccabees 1;, which is more reliable, gives a different account of the death
of Epiphanes after an attempt to rob a rich temple in Elymais. ...
/n/nanaea.htm - 8k

Epiphanes
... 167-164 BC After this war Antiochus retired to the eastern provinces and died, after
having failed in an attack on the temple of the Sun in Elymais, in Persia. ...
/e/epiphanes.htm - 8k

Elymaeans
Elymaeans. Elu'zai, Elymaeans. Elymais . Int. Standard Bible Encyclopedia ...
el-i-me'-ans. See ELAMITES. Elu'zai, Elymaeans. Elymais . Reference Bible.
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East (228 Occurrences)
... (1.) The orient (mizrah); the rising of the sun. Thus "the east country" is the
country lying to the east of Syria, the Elymais (Zechariah 8:7). ...
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Elymas (2 Occurrences)

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Elamites (2 Occurrences)
... The great capital of the tract, however, was Susa (Shushan), whence its Greek name
of Susiana, interchanging with Elymais, from the Semitic Elam. ...
/e/elamites.htm - 39k

Arsaces
... till the reign of Arsaces VI, whose pre-regnal name was Mithridates, that Parthia
through the conquest of Bactria, Media, Persia, Armenia, Elymais and Babylonia ...
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Elam (24 Occurrences)
... The great capital of the tract, however, was Susa (Shushan), whence its Greek name
of Susiana, interchanging with Elymais, from the Semitic Elam. ...
/e/elam.htm - 48k

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Naomi (25 Occurrences)

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East (228 Occurrences)

Elymas (2 Occurrences)

Elamites (2 Occurrences)

Arsaces

Elam (24 Occurrences)

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