Person
Elijah
Eliyyahu
אֵלִיָּהוּ
My God is Yahweh.
Related
Elijah confronts Baal on Carmel and is taken up in a whirlwind. Malachi promises his return; Yahshua points to John the Baptist in that role.
Strong’s
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אֵלִיָּה H452
ʼÊlîyâh · ay-lee-yaw'
Elijah, the name of the famous prophet and of two other Israelites
Ἡλίας G2243
Hēlías
Helias (i.e. Elijah), an Israelite
Brown-Driver-Briggs
Francis Brown, S. R. Driver, and Charles A. Briggs, A Hebrew and English Lexicon of the Old Testament (1906). Public-domain digital text.
אֵלִיָּה H452
אֵלִיָּה 2Kgs 1:3 + 4 t.; אֵלִיָּ֫הוּ 1Kgs 17:1 + 62 t.; proper name, masculine (Yah(u) is God, compare יוֺאֵל)
a. Elijah, the great prophet of the reign of Ahab 1Kgs 17:1 + 65 t. Kings; 2Chr 21:12; Mal 3:23.
b. Benjamite 1Chr 8:27
c. a priest of Ezra's time Ezra 10:21
c. a son of Elam Ezra 10:26.
Thayer’s
Joseph Henry Thayer, Greek-English Lexicon of the New Testament (1889). Public-domain digital text.
Ἡλίας G2243
Hēlías
Ἠλιάς ((so Rst elz G; WH Ἠλείας cf. WHs Appendix, p. 155; Tdf. Proleg., p. 84 and see εἰ, ἰ, but) L Tr Ἡλιάς, Tdf. Ἡλείας (on the breathing in manuscripts see Tdf. Proleg., p. 107; WH. Introductory § 408; current edd, are not uniform)), ἡλίου (Buttmann, 17 (16), 8; but once (viz. Luk 1:17 T Tr marginal reading WH) Ἠλίᾳ), 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 ), 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 (1Ki 17:1-24; 1Ki 18:1-46; 1Ki 19:1-21; 2Ki 2:6 ff; 2Ch 21:12; Mal 4:4; Sir 48:1; Sir 48:4; Sir 48:12 (cf. Edersheim, Jesus the Messiah, Appendix viii.)): Mat 11:14; Mat 16:14; Matthew 17:3f, 10-12; Mat 27:47; Mat 27:49; Mar 6:15; Mar 8:28; Mar 9:4; Mar 9:11-13; Mar 15:35; Luk 1:17; Luk 4:25; Luk 9:8; Luk 9:19; Luk 9:30; Luk 9:33; Luk 9:54 (R G L); Joh 1:21; Joh 1:25; Jas 5:17; ἐν Ἠλίᾳ, in the narrative concerning Elijah, Rom 11:2 (see ἐν, I. 1 d.).