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Lexicon :: Strong's G2243 - ēlias

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Ἠλίας
Transliteration
ēlias (Key)
Pronunciation
hay-lee'-as
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Part of Speech
proper masculine noun
Root Word (Etymology)
Of Hebrew origin אֵלִיָּה (H452)
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TDNT Reference: 2:928,306

Strong’s Definitions

†Ἡλίας Hēlías, hay-lee'-as; of Hebrew origin (H452); Helias (i.e. Elijah), an Israelite:—Elias.

KJV Translation Count — Total: 30x

The KJV translates Strong's G2243 in the following manner: Elias (30x).

KJV Translation Count — Total: 30x
The KJV translates Strong's G2243 in the following manner: Elias (30x).

  1. Elijah = "my God is Jehovah"

    1. a prophet born at Thisbe, the unflinching champion of the theocracy in the reigns of the idolatrous kings Ahab and Ahaziah. He was taken up to heaven without dying, whence the Jews expected he would return just before the advent of the Messiah, whom he would prepare the minds of the Israelites to receive.

Strong’s Definitions [?](Strong’s Definitions Legend)
†Ἡλίας Hēlías, hay-lee'-as; of Hebrew origin (H452); Helias (i.e. Elijah), an Israelite:—Elias.
STRONGS G2243:
Ἠλίας ([so Rst elz G; WH Ἠλείας cf. WHs Appendix, p. 155; Tdf. Proleg., p. 84 and see ει, ι, but] L Tr Ἡλιάς, Tdf. Ἡλείας, [on the breathing in manuscripts see Tdf. Proleg., p. 107; WH. Introduction § 408; current editions, are not uniform]), -ου [Buttmann, 17 (16), 8; but once (namely, Luke 1:17 T Tr marginal reading WH) -α], ὁ, (אֵלִיָּה or אֵלִיָּהוּ i. e. either 'strength of Jehovah' or 'my God is Jehovah'), Elijah, a prophet born at Thisbe [but see B. D. under the word, also under the word Tishbite], the unflinching champion of the theocracy in the reigns of the idolatrous kings Ahab and Ahaziah. He was taken up to heaven without dying, whence the Jews expected he would return just before the advent of the Messiah, whom he would prepare the minds of the Israelites to receive (1 Kings 17-19; 2 Kings 2:6ff; 2 Chronicles 21:12; Malachi 4:4 (Mal. 3:22); Sir. 48:1, 4, 12 [cf. Edersheim, Jesus the Messiah, Appendix 8]): Matthew 11:14; Matthew 16:14; Matthew 17:3f, 10-12; Matthew 27:47, 49; Mark 6:15; Mark 8:28; Mark 9:4; Mark 9:11-13; Mark 15:35; Luke 1:17; Luke 4:25; Luke 9:8, 19, 30, 33, 54 [R G L]; John 1:21, 25; James 5:17; ἐν Ἠλίᾳ, in the narrative concerning Elijah, Romans 11:2 [see ἐν, I. 1 d.].
THAYER’S GREEK LEXICON, Electronic Database.
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BLB Scripture Index of Thayer's

1 Kings
17; 18; 19
2 Kings
2:6
2 Chronicles
21:12
Malachi
4:4
Matthew
11:14; 16:14; 17; 17:3; 27:47; 27:49
Mark
6:15; 8:28; 9:4; 9:11; 9:12; 9:13; 15:35
Luke
1:17; 1:17; 4:25; 9:8; 9:19; 9:30; 9:33; 9:54
John
1:21; 1:25
Romans
11:2
James
5:17

Word / Phrase / Strong's Search

Strong's Number G2243 matches the Greek Ἠλίας (ēlias),
which occurs 30 times in 30 verses in the TR Greek.

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Unchecked Copy Box Mat 11:14

Unchecked Copy BoxMat 11:14 - If you are willing to receive it, this is Eliyah, who is to come.

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Unchecked Copy Box Mat 16:14

Unchecked Copy BoxMat 16:14 - They said, "Some say Yochanan the immerser, some, Eliyah, and others, Yirmeyahu, or one of the prophets."

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Unchecked Copy Box Mat 17:3

Unchecked Copy BoxMat 17:3 - Behold, Moshe and Eliyah appeared to them talking with him.

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Unchecked Copy Box Mat 17:4

Unchecked Copy BoxMat 17:4 - Rock answered, and said to Yeshua, "Lord, it is good for us to be here. If you want, let's make three tents here: one for you, one for Moshe, and one for Eliyah."

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Unchecked Copy Box Mat 17:10

Unchecked Copy BoxMat 17:10 - His talmidim asked him, saying, "Then why do the Sofrim say that Eliyah must come first?

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Unchecked Copy Box Mat 17:11

Unchecked Copy BoxMat 17:11 - Yeshua answered them, "Eliyah indeed comes first, and will restore all things,

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Unchecked Copy Box Mat 17:12

Unchecked Copy BoxMat 17:12 - but I tell you that Eliyah has come already, and they didn't recognize him, but did to him whatever they wanted to. Even so the Son of Man will also suffer by them."

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Unchecked Copy Box Mat 27:47

Unchecked Copy BoxMat 27:47 - Some of them who stood there, when they heard it, said, "This man is calling Eliyah."

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Unchecked Copy Box Mat 27:49

Unchecked Copy BoxMat 27:49 - The rest said, "Let him be. Let's see whether Eliyah comes to save him."

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Unchecked Copy Box Mar 6:15

Unchecked Copy BoxMar 6:15 - But others said, "It is Eliyah." Others said, "It is the Prophet, or like one of the prophets."

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Unchecked Copy Box Mar 8:28

Unchecked Copy BoxMar 8:28 - They told him, "Yochanan the immerser, and others say Eliyah, but others: one of the prophets."

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Unchecked Copy Box Mar 9:4

Unchecked Copy BoxMar 9:4 - Eliyah and Moshe appeared to them, and they were talking with Yeshua.

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Unchecked Copy Box Mar 9:5

Unchecked Copy BoxMar 9:5 - Rock answered Yeshua, "Rabbi, it is good for us to be here. Let's make three tents: one for you, one for Moshe, and one for Eliyah."

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Unchecked Copy Box Mar 9:11

Unchecked Copy BoxMar 9:11 - They asked him, saying, "Why do the Sofrim say that Eliyah must come first?"

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Unchecked Copy Box Mar 9:12

Unchecked Copy BoxMar 9:12 - He said to them, "Eliyah indeed comes first, and restores all things. How is it written about the Son of Man, that he should suffer many things and be despised?

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Unchecked Copy BoxMar 9:13 - But I tell you that Eliyah has come, and they have also done to him whatever they wanted to, even as it is written about him."

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Unchecked Copy Box Mar 15:35

Unchecked Copy BoxMar 15:35 - Some of those who stood by, when they heard it, said, "Behold, he is calling Eliyah."

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Unchecked Copy BoxMar 15:36 - One ran, and filling a sponge full of vinegar, put it on a reed, and gave it to him to drink, saying, "Let him be. Let's see whether Eliyah comes to take him down."

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Unchecked Copy Box Luk 1:17

Unchecked Copy BoxLuk 1:17 - He will go before him in the spirit and power of Eliyah, 'to turn the hearts of the fathers to the children,' and the disobedient to the wisdom of the just; to make ready a people prepared for the Lord."

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Unchecked Copy Box Luk 4:25

Unchecked Copy BoxLuk 4:25 - But truly I tell you, there were many widows in Yisra'el in the days of Eliyah, when the sky was shut up three years and six months, when a great famine came over all the land.

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Unchecked Copy Box Luk 4:26

Unchecked Copy BoxLuk 4:26 - Eliyah was sent to none of them, except to Tzarfat, in the land of Tzidon, to a woman who was a widow.

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Unchecked Copy Box Luk 9:8

Unchecked Copy BoxLuk 9:8 - and by some that Eliyah had appeared, and by others that one of the old prophets had risen again.

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Unchecked Copy Box Luk 9:19

Unchecked Copy BoxLuk 9:19 - They answered, "'Yochanan the immerser,' but others say, 'Eliyah,' and others, that one of the old prophets is risen again."

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Unchecked Copy Box Luk 9:30

Unchecked Copy BoxLuk 9:30 - Behold, two men were talking with him, who were Moshe and Eliyah,

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Unchecked Copy Box Luk 9:33

Unchecked Copy BoxLuk 9:33 - It happened, as they were parting from him, that Rock said to Yeshua, "Master, it is good for us to be here. Let's make three tents: one for you, and one for Moshe, and one for Eliyah," not knowing what he said.

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Unchecked Copy Box Luk 9:54

Unchecked Copy BoxLuk 9:54 - When his talmidim, Ya`akov and Yochanan, saw this, they said, "Lord, do you want us to command fire to come down from the sky, and destroy them, just as Eliyah did?"

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Unchecked Copy Box Jhn 1:21

Unchecked Copy BoxJhn 1:21 - They asked him, "What then? Are you Eliyah?" He said, "I am not." "Are you the Prophet?" He answered, "No."

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Unchecked Copy Box Jhn 1:25

Unchecked Copy BoxJhn 1:25 - They asked him, "Why then do you immerse, if you are not the Messiah, nor Eliyah, nor the Prophet?"

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Unchecked Copy Box Rom 11:2

Unchecked Copy BoxRom 11:2 - God didn't reject his people, which he foreknew. Or don't you know what the Scripture says about Eliyah? How he pleads with God against Yisra'el:

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Unchecked Copy Box Jas 5:17

Unchecked Copy BoxJas 5:17 - Eliyah was a man with a nature like ours, and he prayed earnestly that it might not rain, and it didn't rain on the eretz for three years and six months.
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