Original Word: אֶלְקֹשִׁי
Part of Speech: Adjective
Transliteration: Elqoshi
Phonetic Spelling: (el-ko-shee')
Short Definition: Elkoshite אֶלְקוֺשִׁי adjective, of a people with article Nahum the Elkoshite Nahum 1:1 (perhaps = from Elkosh, but locality unknown; identified by Jer^Comm. with a village Elcesi in Galilee; compare also Capernaum (= כְּפַר נַחוּם ?); others (improbably) with an Elkosh on east bank of Tigris, near Mosul). **On etymology, and site of place, see Da^{Nahum, etc., 9 ff.} GASm^{Twelve Proph. ii. 79f}.

Elkoshite

Patrial from a name of uncertain derivation; an Elkoshite or native of Elkosh -- Elkoshite.

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