Ellasar = "God is chastener"

1. a town in Babylonia, c. 28 miles (50 km) E of Ur

Amraphel = "sayer of darkness: fall of the sayer"

1. the king of Shinar (Babylon) (perhaps Hammurabi c 2100 BC)

four

Arioch = "lion-like"

1. the ancient king of Ellasar, ally of Chedorlaomer

2. the chief of the executioners for Nebuchadnezzar

with, near, together with

1. with, together with

2. with (of relationship)

3. near (of place)

4. with (poss.)

5. from...with, from (with other prep)

nation, people

1. nation, people

   1. usually of non-Hebrew people

   2. of descendants of Abraham

   3. of Israel

2. of swarm of locusts, other animals (fig.)

   proper masculine noun

3. Goyim? = "nations"

five

1. five (cardinal number)

2. a multiple of five (with another number)

3. fifth (ordinal number)

Chedorlaomer = "handful of sheaves"

1. the king of Elam defeated by Abraham

king

Elam = "eternity"

1. a Korhite Levite in the time of David

2. a chief man of the tribe of Benjamin

3. ancestor of a family of exiles who returned with Zerubbabel

4. a chief of the people who signed the covenant with Nehemiah

5. another ancestor of another family of exiles who returned with Zerubbabel

6. a priest who assisted at the dedication of the wall of Jerusalem in the time of Nehemiah

7. another head of a family of returning exiles

   proper locative noun

8. a province east of Babylon and northeast of the lower Tigris

Shinar = "country of two rivers"

1. the ancient name for the territory later known as Babylonia or Chaldea

Tidal = "great son"

1. chief of various nomadic tribes and an ally of Chedorlaomer