elkoshite
Word Rarity
Very rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English
16
Scrabble Score
9
Letters
1
Syllables
8
Unique Chars
Meaning
Example Sentences
- "The burden of Niniue: The boke of the viſion of Nahum the Elkoſhite."
- "The burden of Nineveh. The book of the viſion of Nahum the Elkoſhite."
- "He gives himself the surname of the Elkoshite, which St. Jerome, in the preface to his comment on this prophet, derives from Eltegai, a village in Galilee, and the supposed place of his birth or residence."
- "We may here briefly refer to the probable identity of the Essenes and Therapeuts with the Elkoshites of Galilee, to whom the prophet Nahum belonged."
- "The prophet is described as the Elkoshite but as to where Elkosh was located we are ignorant. Tradition has assigned him to Alkush, twenty-six miles north of the ancient site of Nineveh, and a tomb there is reverenced as the tomb of Nahum."
- "A prophecy concerning Nineveh. The book of the vision of Nahum the Elkoshite."
Etymology
First attested in 1568 in the Bishops' Bible translation (see quotations); earlier English Bible translations instead used “of Elkosh”. From Middle English Helcesei, borrowed from Vulgar Latin Helcesei, from Ancient Greek Έλκεσαίου (Élkesaíou), from Hebrew אֶלְקֹשִׁי. Analysable as Elkosh (“the unidentified birthplace or residence of the minor prophet Nahum”) + -ite.