Bible Names

Elah: meaning of the name

Elah means “an oak; a curse; perjury.”
Hitchcock's Bible Names Dictionary (1869)boy name

Elah in Hebrew and Greek

אֵלָא H414

ʼÊlâʼ (ay-law') — Ela, an Israelite

a variation of H424 (אֵלָה)lemma אִלָה first vowel, corrected to אֵלָה; oak;

אֵלָה H425

ʼÊlâh (ay-law') — Elah, the name of an Edomite, of four Israelites, and also of a place in Palestine

the same as H424 (אֵלָה)lemma אִלָה first vowel, corrected to אֵלָה;

People named Elah in the Bible

Elah in Scripture

“Elah” appears in 16 verses of the King James Version; here are the first 8.

  • Genesis 36:41

    Duke Aholibamah, duke Elah, duke Pinon,

  • 1 Samuel 17:2

    And Saul and the men of Israel were gathered together, and pitched by the valley of Elah, and set the battle in array against the Philistines.

  • 1 Samuel 17:19

    Now Saul, and they, and all the men of Israel, were in the valley of Elah, fighting with the Philistines.

  • 1 Samuel 21:9

    And the priest said, The sword of Goliath the Philistine, whom thou slewest in the valley of Elah, behold, it is here wrapped in a cloth behind the ephod: if thou wilt take that, take it: for there is no other save that here. And David said, There is none like that; give it me.

  • 1 Kings 4:18

    Shimei the son of Elah, in Benjamin:

  • 1 Kings 16:6

    So Baasha slept with his fathers, and was buried in Tirzah: and Elah his son reigned in his stead.

  • 1 Kings 16:8

    In the twenty and sixth year of Asa king of Judah began Elah the son of Baasha to reign over Israel in Tirzah, two years.

  • 1 Kings 16:13

    For all the sins of Baasha, and the sins of Elah his son, by which they sinned, and by which they made Israel to sin, in provoking the Lord God of Israel to anger with their vanities.