Elead (Hastings' Dictionary)

An Eph raimite (1 Ch 7"'). See GENEALOGY. ELEADAH (rxyi)^ 'God hath adorned,' AV Eladah).— An Ephraimite (1 Ch 7'). See Gene- alogy. ELEALEH (n^vS in Nu 32" m _ '), Nu 32»- ", Is 15 16", Jer 48=".— A town of the Moabite plateau, conquered by Gad and Reuben, and rebuilt by the latter tribe. The expression (v.**), ' their names being changed,' referring to this and other towns, is rendered by Knobel (following the LXX), 'en- closing them with walls' ; but this is very improb- able {y.

v 'wall ' is only poetic). See Dillni. ad loc. Elealeh is noticed with Heshbon, and in the 4th cent. A.D. was known (Onomasticon, s.v.) as being a Roman mile from Heshbon. It is now the ruined mound of El-'Al, about a mile N. of Heshbon. See SEP vol. i. under the Arab. name. C. R. CONDER.