1. Elijah (proper name) — The Hebrew proper name Elijah (אֵלִיָּה / אֵלִיָּהוּ, meaning 'my God is YHWH'), the prominent prophet from Tishbe in Gilead who confronted Baal worship and was taken up to heaven in a whirlwind (1 Kings 17-2 Kings 2). All 71 occurrences denote the same individual across grammatical contexts: nominative (eng: Elijah/Eliyahu, spa: Elías, arb: إيلِيّا, hin: एलिय्याहू, kor: 엘리야, swa: Eliya), with conjunction 'and Elijah' (arb: وَ–إِيلِيَّا, hin: और–एलिय्याह), and with preposition min 'from Elijah' (arb: مِنْ–إِيلِيَا, swa: kutoka–kwa–Eliya). These represent purely syntactic variation. 71×
AR["إيلِيّا"]·ben["এলিয়","এলিয়?","এলিয়।","এলিয়কে","এলিয়ের","এলিয়ের।"]·DE["Elia"]·EN["Eliyahu"]·FR["Élie"]·heb["אליהו"]·HI["एलिय्याहू"]·ID["Elia"]·IT["Elia"]·jav["Éliya"]·KO["엘리야","엘리야를","엘리야의"]·PT["'Eliyahu","'Eliyyahu"]·RU["Элийаху"]·ES["Eliyahu","Elías","Elías?"]·SW["Eliya"]·TR["İlyas","İlyas'u","İlyas'un","İlyas'ı"]·urd["ایلیاہ","ایلیاہ-سے","ایلیاہ-نے","ایلیاہ-کی","ایلیاہ-کے"]
1 Kgs 17:1, 1 Kgs 17:13, 1 Kgs 17:15, 1 Kgs 17:16, 1 Kgs 17:18, 1 Kgs 17:22, 1 Kgs 17:23, 1 Kgs 17:23, 1 Kgs 17:24, 1 Kgs 18:1, 1 Kgs 18:2, 1 Kgs 18:7 (+38 more)
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אֵלִיָּה 2 K 1:3 + 4 times; אֵלִיָּ֫הוּ 1 K 17:1 + 62 times; n.pr.m. (Yah(u) is God, cf. יוֹאֵל) a. Elijah, the great prophet of the reign of Ahab 1 K 17:1 + 65 times K; 2 Ch 21:12 Mal 3:23. b. Benjamite 1 Ch 8:27; c. a priest of Ezra’s time Ezr 10:21; d. a son of Elam Ezr 10:26.