Bible Names

Elath: meaning of the name

Elath means “a hind; strength; an oak.”
Hitchcock's Bible Names Dictionary (1869)

Elath in Hebrew and Greek

אֵילוֹת H359

ʼÊylôwth (ay-loth') — Eloth or Elath, a place on the Red Sea

or אֵילַת ; from H352 (אַיִל); trees or a grove (i.e. palms);

Places named Elath

Elath in Scripture

“Elath” appears in 3 verses of the King James Version.

  • Deuteronomy 2:8

    And when we passed by from our brethren the children of Esau, which dwelt in Seir, through the way of the plain from Elath, and from Ezion–gaber, we turned and passed by the way of the wilderness of Moab.

  • 2 Kings 14:22

    He built Elath, and restored it to Judah, after that the king slept with his fathers.

  • 2 Kings 16:6

    At that time Rezin king of Syria recovered Elath to Syria, and drave the Jews from Elath: and the Syrians came to Elath, and dwelt there unto this day.