Gender Masculine
Scripts אֵלִיָּהוּ(Ancient Hebrew)

Meaning & History

Biblical Hebrew form of Elijah.

Related Names

Rootsʾel + Yahweh
Other Languages & CulturesElias(Amharic) Ilyas(Arabic) Ilyes(Arabic (Maghrebi)) Ilyas(Bashkir) Ilia, Ilya(Belarusian) Elijah, Elias(Biblical) Elias, Eliou(Biblical Greek) Elias, Helias(Biblical Latin) Ilia, Ilija, Iliya(Bulgarian) Ilyas(Chechen) Ilija(Croatian) Eliáš, Ilja(Czech) Elias(Danish) Elias, Elian(Dutch) Elijah, Alijah, Elias(English) Ilja(Estonian) Eelis, Elias, Eljas(Finnish) Élie(French) Ilia(Georgian) Elias(German) Elias, Ilias(Greek) Elijah, Eliya, Eliyahu(Hebrew) Illés, Éliás(Hungarian) Elías(Icelandic) Ilyas(Indonesian) Elia(Italian) Ilyas(Kazakh) Ilja, Elijas(Lithuanian) Ilija, Ile(Macedonian) Elis(Medieval English) Elias(Norwegian) Eliasz(Polish) Elias(Portuguese) Ilie(Romanian) Ilia, Ilja, Ilya(Russian) Ilija(Serbian) Elías(Spanish) Elias, Elis, Lias(Swedish) Ilyas(Tatar) İlyas(Turkish) Illya(Ukrainian) Ilyas(Urdu)
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Sources & References

  1. Strong, James. The Exhaustive Concordance of the Bible, entry h452, available from https://www.blueletterbible.org/lang/lexicon/lexicon.cfm?strongs=h452.
Entry updated October 6, 2024