Definition

Elihu, the name of one of Job's friends, and of three Israelites

Etymology

or (fully) אֱלִיהוּא; from H410 (אֵל) and H1931 (הוּא); God of him;

Where the KJV renders it

• Elihu

Every distinct English word the King James Version uses to translate this Hebrew term. The variety shows what readers in English receive across many different surface words — the same underlying word, scattered across the English Bible under different names.

What the first audience heard

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