Elamites
Elamites
Elamites are mentioned in Act 2:9 among the sojourners in Jerusalem on the Day of Pentecost. Jews settled in Elam during the post-exilic period, whence they and their descendants came up to the Holy City for the annual religions festivals. Elam lay due east of Babylonia and the lower Tigris, and corresponds to the modern Khuzistan. Its ruling cities were Shushan (or Susa) and Ansan (or Anzan), and the earliest native rulers called themselves patesis, or viceroys, in acknowledgment of dependence upon Babylonia. The native Elamites had been gradually encroached upon, from the west, by invading Semites, who brought their own system of writing with them. This system was adopted by the Elamite princes for many of their votive tablets and inscribed monuments. For a brief period after 2300 b.c. Elamite chieftains ruled in Babylonia, but their power was broken by Hammurabi, whose son Samsu-iluna finally restored Babylonian supremacy.
Literature.-L. W. King and H. R. Hall, Egypt and Western Asia in the Light of Recent Discoveries, 1907, ch. v.; H. Winckler, History of Babylonia and Assyria, Eng. translation , 1907, ch. ii.; articles Elam in Realencyklopdie fr protestantische Theologie und Kirche 3 and Jewish Encyclopedia , and Elam, Elamites in Hasting’s Dictionary of the Bible (5 vols) .
A. W. Cooke.
Fuente: Dictionary of the Apostolic Church
Elamites
Natives of Elam, a Persian province named after one of the sons of Sern (Genesis 10), south of Media and north of the Persian Gulf, seat of a mighty empire of which Susa was the capital, and the scene of wars between the Assyrians and the Babylonians ; it was conquered by the Assyrians 640 B.C. Elamites were present at Pentecost (Acts 2).
Fuente: New Catholic Dictionary
Elamites
[E’lamites]
Inhabitants of Elam, some of whom were located in Palestine. Ezr 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. Act 2:9.
Fuente: Concise Bible Dictionary
Elamites
H5962 G1639
Descendants of Elam, whose name was given to the district of Elam
Gen 10:22
Present at Pentecost
Act 2:9