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Boyd’s Bible Dictionary
:
Inhabitants of
Elam
(
Ezra 4:9
9
Then wrote Rehum the chancellor, and Shimshai the scribe, and the rest of their companions; the Dinaites, the Apharsathchites, the Tarpelites, the Apharsites, the Archevites, the Babylonians, the Susanchites, the Dehavites, and the Elamites, (Ezra 4:9)
).
Concise Bible Dictionary
:
Inhabitants of
Elam
, some of whom were located in
Palestine
(
Ezra 4:9
9
Then wrote Rehum the chancellor, and Shimshai the scribe, and the rest of their companions; the Dinaites, the Apharsathchites, the Tarpelites, the Apharsites, the Archevites, the Babylonians, the Susanchites, the Dehavites, and the Elamites, (Ezra 4:9)
). Some of the same name, 550 years after, were present at
Jerusalem
on the
day
of
Pentecost
, but these were doubtless Jews from Elam (
Acts 2:9
9
Parthians, and Medes, and Elamites, and the dwellers in Mesopotamia, and in Judea, and Cappadocia, in Pontus, and Asia, (Acts 2:9)
).
Jackson’s
Dictionary of Scripture Proper Names
:
gentilic of Elam