עֵילָם

Elam = &quot eternity&quot , a Korhite Levite in the time of David, a chief man of the tribe of Benjamin, ancestor of a family of exiles who returned with Zerubbabel, a chief of the people who signed the covenant with Nehemiah, another ancestor of another family of exiles who returned with Zerubbabel, a priest who assisted at the dedication of the wall of Jerusalem in the time of Nehemiah, another head of a family of returning exiles, a province east of Babylon and northeast of the lower Tigris