Elephant (Hastings' Dictionary)

'V\\\a animal ia mentioned in 1 and 2 Mac as employed in war. It is not found in AV of t)T, except in the marg. for beliemiith (Job 40"), and ele/ih'tnts' terth for ivory (1 K 10", 2 Ch 9'"). The word is 0'?n}y shen- QuntcMl from an article by the present writ^rin the Thinker, May 18U5, on SU Paul's view of tb« Greek Kods.' 684 ELEUTHEEUS ELI, ELI habbtm.

The word shen is the ordinary word for ivory in OT, and hahbim seems to be the same as the modern vernacular word for elephant in the languages of Malabar and Ceylon. See IvORY. G. E. Post. ELEUTHEROS ("EXfiieepos), 1 Mac 11' IS*".— A river which separated Syria and Phajnicia (Strabo, xvi. ), and appears to be the mod. Nahr el-Keblr or ' Great River,' which divides the Lebanon in two north of Tripoli. C. R. CONDER.