Elephant

ELEPHANT el'-e-fant

(Job 40:15 the King James Version margin, the American Revised Version, margin "hippopotamus," the Revised Version (British and American) "ivory"); 1 Kings 10:22 the King James Version margin; 2 Chronicles 9:21 the King James Version;

1 Maccabees 3:34; 6:28; 8:6 Possibly in Job it is the extinct mammoth.

See BEHEMOTH; IVORY.

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Orr, James, M.A., D.D. General Editor. "Entry for 'ELEPHANT'".  "International Standard Bible Encyclopedia".  1915.