Abbott-Smith Greek Lexicon
Ἐλύμας
- Transliteration
- Elumas
- Language
- Greek
- Part of speech
- N:N-M-P
- Indexed occurrences
- 1
Glosses
Elymas
Lexicon definition
Ἐλύμας, -α, ὁ (Aram. or Arab., cf. DB, i, 246 b) Elymas: Act.13:8.† (AS)
SUBJECT · Complete Bible Study
Elymas
A magician, a corrupter Elymas is rendered in the installed Bible Names resource as “a magician, a corrupter.” This unified study connects 7 installed resource categories without replacing their source records.
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- Historical Reference: Nave’s Topical Bible — Public domain
- Historical Reference: Hitchcock’s Bible Names Dictionary (1869)
- Historical Reference: Hitchcock's Bible Names Dictionary
- Historical Reference: concordance
- Historical Reference: STEPBible TBESG (based primarily on Abbott-Smith)
- Historical Reference: Installed reference work
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Study overview
Study at a glance
- Subject type
- Subject
- Strong’s
- G1681
- Greek
- Ἐλύμας · Elumas
- Name meaning
- a magician, a corrupter According to Hitchcock's Bible Names Dictionary
Strong’s and original-language information
G1681
Strong’s Hebrew and Greek Lexicon
Ἐλύμας
- Transliteration
- Elýmas
- Language
- Greek
- Indexed occurrences
- 1
Glosses
Elymas
Lexicon definition
Elymas, a wizard
Hebrew lexical coverage
No safely matched Hebrew Strong’s entry
The installed lexicons do not contain a sufficiently exact Hebrew word-level match for this study. UNLEARN leaves this language unassigned instead of displaying an unrelated Strong’s record.
Complete dictionary entries
Hitchcock's Bible Names Dictionary
Elymas
a magician, a corrupter
Source: Hitchcock's Bible Names Dictionary · View data sources
Concordance
Strong's Concordance
Elymas
Indexed occurrences: 2
Source: Strong's Concordance · View data sources
All Scripture references9 references
Topical Bible
Nave's Topical Bible
ELYMAS
Entry:
Nave’s Topical Bible references for ELYMAS.
Indexed references: 1
Scripture references:
Source: Nave's Topical Bible · View data sources
Bible Names
Hitchcock's Bible Names Dictionary
Elymas
Meaning:
a magician, a corrupter
Source: Hitchcock's Bible Names Dictionary · View data sources
Sources
- Historical Reference: Nave’s Topical Bible — Public domain
- Historical Reference: Hitchcock’s Bible Names Dictionary (1869)
- Historical Reference: Hitchcock's Bible Names Dictionary
- Historical Reference: concordance
- Historical Reference: STEPBible TBESG (based primarily on Abbott-Smith)
- Historical Reference: Installed reference work
Related UNLEARN Content4 items
Topic
ELYMAS
Nave’s Topical Bible references for ELYMAS.
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Bar-jesus
Son of Joshua, the patronymic of Elymas the sorcerer (Acts 13:6), who met Paul and Barnabas at Paphos. Elymas is a word of Arabic origin meaning "wise."
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Elymas
a magician, a corrupter
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Exorcist
(Acts 19:13). "In that sceptical and therefore superstitious age professional exorcist abounded. Many of these professional exorcists were disreputable Jews, like Simon in Samaria and Elymas in Cyprus (8:9; 13:6)." Other references to exorcism as practised by the Jews are found in Matt. 12:27; Mark 9:38; Luke 9:49, 50. It would seem that it was an opinion among the Jews that miracles might be wrought by invoking the divine name. Thus also these "vagabond Jews" pretended that they could expel daemons. The power of casting out devils was conferred by Christ on his apostles (Matt. 10:8), and on the seventy (Luke 10:17-19), and was exercised by believers after his ascension (Mark 16:17; Acts 16:18); but this power was never spoken of as exorcism.
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