BDB508 [H512]

אֶלְקוֺשִׁי adjective, of a people with article Nahum the Elkoshite Nah 1:1 (perhaps = from Elkosh, but locality unknown; identified by Jer^Comm. with a village Elcesi in Galilee; compare also Capernaum (= כְּפַר נַחוּם ?); others (improbably) with an Elkosh on east bank of Tigris, near Mosul).

**On etymology, and site of place, see Da^{Nahum, etc., 9 ff.} GASm^{Twelve Proph. ii. 79f}.

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