therefore often employed for landmarks and in designating places (Genesis
35:4; Judges 6:11, 19. Rendered “oak” in both A.V. and R.V.). (See TEIL
TREE.)
- ELNATHAN whom God has given. (1.) An inhabitant of Jerusalem, the
father of Nehushta, who was the mother of king Jehoiachin (2 Kings 24:8).
Probably the same who tried to prevent Jehoiakim from burning the roll of
Jeremiah’s prophecies (Jeremiah 26:22; 36:12). (2.) Ezra 8:16. - ELON oak. (1.) A city of Dan (Joshua 19:43). (2.) A Hittite, father of
Bashemath, Esau’s wife (Genesis 26:34). (3.) One of the sons of Zebulun
(Genesis 46:14). (4.) The eleventh of the Hebrew judges. He held office for
ten years (Judges 12:11, 12). He is called the Zebulonite. - ELPARAN oak of Paran, a place on the edge of the wilderness bordering
the territory of the Horites (Genesis 14:6). This was the farthest point to
which Chedorlaomer’s expedition extended. It is identified with the
modern desert of et-Tih. (See PARAN.) - ELTEKEH God is its fear, a city in the tribe of Daniel It was a city of
refuge and a Levitical city (Joshua 21:23). It has been identified with
Beit-Likia, north-east of latrum. - ELUL (Nehemiah 6:15), the name of the sixth month of the ecclesiastical
year, and the twelfth of the civil year. It began with the new moon of our
August and September, and consisted of twenty-nine days. - ELYMAS magician or sorcerer, the Arabic name of the Jew Bar-Jesus,
who withstood Paul and Barnabas in Cyprus. He was miraculously struck
with blindness (Acts 13:11). - EMBALMING the process of preserving a body by means of aromatics
(Genesis 50:2, 3, 26). This art was practised by the Egyptians from the
earliest times, and there brought to great perfection. This custom probably
originated in the belief in the future reunion of the soul with the body. The
process became more and more complicated, and to such perfection was it
carried that bodies embalmed thousands of years ago are preserved to the
present day in the numberless mummies that have been discovered in
Egypt.
The embalming of Jacob and Joseph was according to the Egyptian
custom, which was partially followed by the Jews (2 Chronicles 16:14), as