King James Bible
King James Version (KJV)
STRONGS NUMBER H512
Transliteration: Elqoshi
Phonetic Spelling: (el-ko-shee')
Part of Speech: Adjective
Short Definition: a native of Elkosh
Meaning: Elkoshite -- a native of Elkosh
Word Summary
Elqoshi: a native of Elkosh
Original Word: אֶלְקשִׁיTransliteration: Elqoshi
Phonetic Spelling: (el-ko-shee')
Part of Speech: Adjective
Short Definition: a native of Elkosh
Meaning: Elkoshite -- a native of Elkosh
Strong's Concordance
Elkoshite Patrial from a name of uncertain derivation; an Elkoshite or native of Elkosh -- Elkoshite.
Brown-Driver-Briggs
H512. Elqoshi
אֶלְקוֺשִׁי adjective, of a people with article Nahum the Elkoshite Nahum 1:1 (perhaps = from Elkosh, but locality unknown; identified by JerComm. with a village Elcesi in Galilee; compare also Capernaum (= נַחוּם כְּפַר ?); others (improbably) with an Elkosh on east bank of Tigris, near Mosul). **On etymology, and site of place, see DaNahum, etc., 9 ff. GASmTwelve Proph. ii. 79f.