Topic
Elephant
6 passages cited, from 3 classic reference works.
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The verses
The passages the works cite, those cited by more of them first.
- 1 Kings 10:22Easton · ISBE
For the king had at sea a navy of Tharshish with the navy of Hiram: once in three years came the navy of Tharshish, bringing gold, and silver, ivory, and apes, and peacocks.
- 2 Chronicles 9:21Easton · ISBE
For the king’s ships went to Tarshish with the servants of Huram: every three years once came the ships of Tarshish bringing gold, and silver, ivory, and apes, and peacocks.
- Job 40:15ISBE · Nave (Margin A. V.)
¶ Behold now behemoth, which I made with thee; he eateth grass as an ox.
- Genesis 7:6ISBE
And Noah was six hundred years old when the flood of waters was upon the earth.
- Genesis 8:6ISBE
¶ And it came to pass at the end of forty days, that Noah opened the window of the ark which he had made:
- Revelation 18:12Easton
The merchandise of gold, and silver, and precious stones, and of pearls, and fine linen, and purple, and silk, and scarlet, and all thyine wood, and all manner vessels of ivory, and all manner vessels of most precious wood, and of brass, and iron, and marble,
In the reference works
Easton's Bible Dictionary (1897) · 3 references
Not found in Scripture except indirectly in the original Greek word (elephantinos) translated “of ivory” in Rev. 18:12, and in the Hebrew word (shenhabim, meaning “elephant’s tooth”) rendered “ivory” in 1 Kings 10:22 and 2 Chr. 9:21.
International Standard Bible Encyclopedia (1915) · 5 references
el'-e-fant
(Job 40:15 the King James Version margin, the American Revised Version, margin "hippopotamus," the Revised Version (British and American) "ivory"); 1Ki 10:22 the King James Version margin; 2Ch 9:21 the King James Version; /APC 1Macc 3:34; 6:28 ff; 8:6 Possibly in Job it is the extinct mammoth.
In the topical indexes
Texts: Easton's Bible Dictionary (1897); International Standard Bible Encyclopedia (1915); Nave's Topical Bible (1896), from the CrossWire SWORD modules (public domain). Verse references were parsed from the works' own markup and checked against the KJV verse list.