International Standard Bible Encyclopedia
ELLASARel-a'-sar ('ellacar):
1. The Name and Its Etymology:
The city over which Arioch (Eri-Aku) and other Babylonian kings ruled (Genesis 14:1). The Semitic-Babylonians form of its name is (al) Larsa, "the city Larsa," a form which implies that the Hebrew has interchanged r and s, and transposed the final vowel. Its Sumerian name is given as Ararwa, apparently for Arauruwa, "light-abode," which, in fact, is the meaning of the ideographic group with which it is written. The ruins of this ancient site are now known as Senqara, and lie on the East bank of the Euphrates, about midway between Warka (Erech) and Muqayyar (Ur of the Chaldees). In addition to the name Larsa, it seems also to have been called Aste azaga "the holy (bright, pure) seat" (or throne), and both its names were apparently due to its having been one of the great Babylonian centers of sun-god worship.
2. Its Holy Places:
Like most of the principal cities of Babylonia, it had a great temple-tower, called E-dur-an-ki, "house of the bond of heaven and earth." The temple of the city bore the same name as that at Sippar, i.e. E-babbar, "House of Light," where the sun-god Samas was worshipped. This temple was restored by Ur-Engur, Hammurabi (Amraphel), Burna-burias, Nebuchadrezzar and Nabonidus. Among the tablets found on this site by Loftus was that which gives measures of length and square and cube roots, pointing to the place as one of the great centers of Babylonian learning. Besides the remains of these temples, there are traces of the walls, and the remains of houses of the citizens. The city was at first governed by its own kings, but became a part of the Babylonian empire some time after the reign of Hammurabi.
LITERATURE.
Loftus, Chaldea and Susiana; Delitzsch, Wo lag das Paradies?; Zehnpfund, Babylonien in seinen wichtigsten Ruinenstatten, 53-54.
T. G. Pinches
Strong's Hebrew
495. Ellasar -- a country of unknown location... 494, 495.
Ellasar. 496 . a country of unknown location. Transliteration:
Ellasar Phonetic Spelling: (el-law-sawr') Short Definition:
Ellasar.
... /hebrew/495.htm - 5k 746a. Aryok -- king of Ellasar
... king of Ellasar. Transliteration: Aryok Short Definition: Arioch. Word Origin of
foreign origin Definition king of Ellasar NASB Word Usage Arioch (2). ...
/hebrew/746a.htm - 5k
746. Aryowk -- king of Ellasar
... 745b, 746. Aryowk. 746a . king of Ellasar. Transliteration: Aryowk Phonetic
Spelling: (ar-yoke') Short Definition: Arioch. Arioch ...
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Library
Chapter xiv
... 1. And it came to pass in the days of Amraphel, king of Shinar, and Arioch, king
of Ellasar, Chedorlaomer, king of Elam, and Tidal, king of Goyim. ...
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The History after the Flood.
... [612] And in the land of Shinar, among those called Chaldæans, the first king was
Arioch, and next after him Ellasar, and after him Chedorlaomer, king of Elam ...
/.../theophilus/theophilus to autolycus/chapter xxxi the history after the.htm
"In the Volume of the Book it is Written of Me" (Heb. . .
... Babylon, Persia, Greece, and Rome), so dominions: "And it came to pass in the days
of Amraphel king of Shinar, Arioch king of Ellasar, Chedorlaomer king of Elam ...
//christianbookshelf.org/pink/the antichrist/in the volume of the.htm
The First Chaldaean Empire and the Hyksos in Egypt
... Sodom, Gomorrah, Adamah, Zeboim, and Bela"revolted against him: he immediately convoked
his great vassals, Amraphel of Chaldaea, Arioch of Ellasar,* Tida'lo ...
/.../chapter ithe first chaldaean empire.htm
Appendices
... pure! X. LETTERS OF KHAMMURABI OR AMMURAPI (THE AMRAPHEL OP Genesis 14:1)
TO SIN-IDINNAM, KING OF LARSA (THE ELLASAR OF GENESIS). I ...
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Hitchcock's Bible Names Dictionary
Ellasarrevolting from God
Smith's Bible Dictionary
Ellasar(oak), the city of Arioch, (Genesis 14:1) seems to be the Hebrew representative of the old Chaldean town called in the native dialect Larsa or Larancha . Larsa was a town of lower Babylonia or Chaldea, situated nearly halfway between Ur (Mugheir) and Erech (Warka), on the left bank of the Euphrates. It is now Senkereh.
ATS Bible Dictionary
EllasarGenesis 14:1,9, perhaps the same country as Thelassar, 2 Kings 19:12; Isaiah 37:12. The Arabic version calls it Armenia.
Easton's Bible Dictionary
The oak or heap of Assyria, a territory in Asia of which Arioch was king (
Genesis 14:1, 9). It is supposed that the old Chaldean town of Larsa was the metropolis of this kingdom, situated nearly half-way between Ur (now Mugheir) and Erech, on the left bank of the Euphrates. This town is represented by the mounds of Senkereh, a little to the east of Erech.
Thesaurus
Ellasar (2 Occurrences)... of Erech. Int. Standard Bible Encyclopedia.
ELLASAR. el-a
... 53-54. TG Pinches.
Multi-Version Concordance
Ellasar (2 Occurrences). Genesis 14
.../e/ellasar.htm - 9kArioch (6 Occurrences)
... Easton's Bible Dictionary Lion-like, venerable. (1.) A king of Ellasar who was
confederate with Chedorlamer (Genesis 14:1, 9). The tablets recently discovered ...
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Amraphel (2 Occurrences)
... where he is mentioned as the king of Shinar (Babylonia), who fought against the
cities of the plain, in alliance with Arioch king of Ellasar, Chedorlaomer king ...
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Tidal (2 Occurrences)
... in Genesis 14:1, 9 in the account of the expedition of Chedorlaomer of Elam, with
his allies, Amraphel of Shinar (Babylonia), Arioch of Ellasar, and Tidal, who ...
/t/tidal.htm - 11k
Chedorlaomer (5 Occurrences)
... was under the suzerainty of the Elamites, and was divided into two kingdoms, that
of Babylon (the Biblical Shinar) and that of Larsa (the Biblical Ellasar). ...
/c/chedorlaomer.htm - 16k
Goiim (3 Occurrences)
... Genesis 14:1 It happened in the days of Amraphel, king of Shinar, Arioch, king of
Ellasar, Chedorlaomer, king of Elam, and Tidal, king of Goiim, (WEB JPS ASV ...
/g/goiim.htm - 7k
Goyim (7 Occurrences)
... Genesis 14:1 And it cometh to pass in the days of Amraphel king of Shinar, Arioch
king of Ellasar, Chedorlaomer king of Elam, and Tidal king of Goyim, (YLT). ...
/g/goyim.htm - 8k
Goi'im (3 Occurrences)
... Genesis 14:1 And it came to pass in the days of Amraphel king of Shinar, Arioch
king of Ellasar, Chedorlaomer king of Elam, and Tidal king of Goiim, (See RSV). ...
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Ella'sar (2 Occurrences)
... Genesis 14:1 And it came to pass in the days of Amraphel king of Shinar, Arioch
king of Ellasar, Chedorlaomer king of Elam, and Tidal king of Goiim, (See RSV). ...
/e/ella'sar.htm - 6k
Ched-or-lao'mer (5 Occurrences)
... Genesis 14:1 And it came to pass in the days of Amraphel king of Shinar, Arioch
king of Ellasar, Chedorlaomer king of Elam, and Tidal king of Goiim, (See RSV). ...
/c/ched-or-lao'mer.htm - 7k
Bible Concordance
Ellasar (2 Occurrences)Genesis 14:1 It happened in the days of Amraphel, king of Shinar, Arioch, king of Ellasar, Chedorlaomer, king of Elam, and Tidal, king of Goiim,
(WEB KJV JPS ASV BBE WBS YLT NAS NIV)
Genesis 14:9 against Chedorlaomer king of Elam, and Tidal king of Goiim, and Amraphel king of Shinar, and Arioch king of Ellasar; four kings against the five.
(WEB KJV JPS ASV BBE DBY WBS YLT NAS NIV)
Subtopics
Ellasar
Ellasar: Its King Invades Canaan
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Tidal (2 Occurrences)
Chedorlaomer (5 Occurrences)
Goiim (3 Occurrences)
Goyim (7 Occurrences)
Goi'im (3 Occurrences)
Ella'sar (2 Occurrences)
Ched-or-lao'mer (5 Occurrences)
Ar'ioch (2 Occurrences)
Am'raphel (2 Occurrences)
Elkoshite (1 Occurrence)
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Kedorlaomer (4 Occurrences)
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Chaldea (8 Occurrences)
Elam (24 Occurrences)
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