Ἠλίας

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See also: Ηλίας and Ἡλίας

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Elijah

Ancient Greek

Alternative forms

Ἡλίᾱς (Hēlíās), Ἠλείᾱς (Ēleíās), Ἡλείᾱς (Hēleíās)

Etymology

Borrowed from Hebrew אֱלִיָּה (ʾĕliyyā).

Pronunciation

(4^th CE Koine) IPA^(key): /iˈli.as/
(10^th CE Byzantine) IPA^(key): /iˈli.as/
(15^th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA^(key): /iˈli.as/

Proper noun

Ἠλίᾱς • (Ēlíās) m (genitive Ἠλίου); first declension

a male given name from Hebrew, equivalent to English Elias or Elijah
Elijah, an Israelite prophet.
- 93 CE – 94 CE, Josephus, Antiquities of the Jews 8.331

Usage notes

The variant Ἠλίας (Ēlías) is found in the earliest manuscripts and is considered to most likely be the authentic version.

Inflection

First declension of ὁ Ἡλίᾱς; τοῦ Ἡλίου (Attic)

Case / #	Singular
Nominative	ὁ Ἡλίᾱς ho Hēlíās
Genitive	τοῦ Ἡλίου toû Hēlíou
Dative	τῷ Ἡλίᾳ tôi Hēlíāi
Accusative	τὸν Ἡλίᾱν tòn Hēlíān
Vocative	Ἡλίᾱ Hēlíā
Notes:	This table gives Attic inflectional endings. For declension in other dialects, see Appendix:Ancient Greek dialectal declension.

Descendants

Greek: Ηλίας (Ilías)
→ Arabic: إِلْيَاس (ʔilyās)
- → Albanian: Ilijaz
- → Azerbaijani: İlyas
- → Bashkir: Ильяс (İlyas)
- → Bengali: ইলিয়াস (iliẏaś)
- → Chagatai: الیاس
  - Uyghur: ئىلياس (ilyas)
  - Uzbek: Ilyos
- → Kazakh: Ілияс (Iliäs)
- → Ottoman Turkish: الیاس
  - Turkish: İlyas
- → Punjabi: اِلْیاس
- → Pashto: الياس (ilyās)
- → Persian: الیاس (elyâs)
- → Sindhi: اِلْياس (ilyās)
- → Urdu: الیاس (ilyās)
→ Georgian: ილია (ilia), ელიოზ (elioz)
→ Gothic: 𐌷𐌴𐌻𐌹𐌰𐍃 (hēlias)
→ Latin: Ēliās, Hēliās (see there for further descendants)
→ Old Church Slavonic: Илїа (Ilia)
- → Belarusian: Ілья (Ilʹja)
- → Bulgarian: Илия (Ilija)
- → Macedonian: Илија (Ilija), Иљо (Iljo)
- → Russian: Илья (Ilʹja), Илия́ (Ilijá)
  - → Armenian: Իլյա (Ilya)
  - → Czech: Ilja
  - → English: Ilya
  - → Estonian: Ilja
  - → German: Ilja
  - → Latvian: Iļja
  - → Slovak: Iľja
- → Serbo-Croatian:
  Cyrillic script: Илија
  
  Latin script: Ilija
- → Ukrainian: Ілля (Illja)

References

Bauer, Walter et al. (2001) A Greek–English Lexicon of the New Testament and Other Early Christian Literature, Third edition, Chicago: University of Chicago Press
G2243 in Strong, James (1979) Strong’s Exhaustive Concordance to the Bible
Nestle, Eberhard, Aland, Kurt with et al. (2012) Novum Testamentum Graece‎, 28th revised edition, 4th corrected printing edition, Stuttgart: Stuttgart Deutsche Bibelgesellschaft, →ISBN

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