Lexicon :: Strong's G2243 - ēlias

“And if you’re willing to accept it, he is the Elijah who is to come.

They replied, “Some say John the Baptist; others, Elijah; still others, Jeremiah or one of the prophets.”

Suddenly, Moses and Elijah appeared to them, talking with him.

So the disciples asked him, “Why then do the scribes say that Elijah must come first? ”

When some of those standing there heard this, they said, “He’s calling for Elijah.”

But the rest said, “Let’s see if Elijah comes to save him.”

But others said, “He’s Elijah.” Still others said, “He’s a prophet, like one of the prophets from long ago.”

They answered him, “John the Baptist; others, Elijah; still others, one of the prophets.”

Elijah appeared to them with Moses, and they were talking with Jesus.

Then they asked him, “Why do the scribes say that Elijah must come first? ”

When some of those standing there heard this, they said, “See, he’s calling for Elijah.”

“And he will go before him in the spirit and power of Elijah, to turn the hearts of fathers to their children, and the disobedient to the understanding of the righteous, to make ready for the Lord a prepared people.”

“But I say to you, there were certainly many widows in Israel in Elijah’s days, when the sky was shut up for three years and six months while a great famine came over all the land.

some that Elijah had appeared, and others that one of the ancient prophets had risen.

They answered, “John the Baptist; others, Elijah; still others, that one of the ancient prophets has come back.”[fn]

Suddenly, two men were talking with him ​— ​Moses and Elijah.

As the two men were departing from him, Peter said to Jesus, “Master, it’s good for us to be here. Let’s set up three shelters: one for you, one for Moses, and one for Elijah” ​— ​not knowing what he was saying.

When the disciples James and John saw this, they said, “Lord, do you want us to call down fire from heaven to consume them? ”[fn]

“What then? ” they asked him. “Are you Elijah? ”

“I am not,” he said.

“Are you the Prophet? ”

“No,” he answered.

So they asked him, “Why then do you baptize if you aren’t the Messiah, or Elijah, or the Prophet? ”

God has not rejected his people whom he foreknew. Or don’t you know what the Scripture says in the passage about Elijah ​— ​how he pleads with God against Israel?

Elijah was a human being as we are, and he prayed earnestly that it would not rain, and for three years and six months it did not rain on the land.