Word: MLIR

Pronounce: ay-lawm'

Strong: H5867

Orig: or mOwlam (Ezra 10:2; Jeremiah 49:36) \i o-lawm'\i0\plain\f3\fs21\cf23 ; probably from 5956; hidden, i.e. distant; Elam, a son of Shem and his descendants, with their country; also of six Israelites:--Elam. H5956

Use:

Grk Strong: G1639

    Elam = "eternity"

    n pr m
    1) a Korhite Levite in the time of David
    2) a chief man of the tribe of Benjamin
    3) ancestor of a family of exiles who returned with Zerubbabel
    4) a chief of the people who signed the covenant with Nehemiah
    5) another ancestor of another family of exiles who returned with Zerubbabel
    6) a priest who assisted at the dedication of the wall of Jerusalem in the time of Nehemiah
    7) another head of a family of returning exiles

    n pr loc
    8) a province east of Babylon and northeast of the lower Tigris