אֵילוֹתʼÊylôwth

Eloth or Elath, a place on the Red Sea

Pronunciation: ay-loth' · Hebrew/Aramaic (Old Testament) · H359

Meanings

אֵילַת: proper name [of a location]: town & harbour, northeast arm of Red Sea, hence called AElanitic Gulf (Genesis 14:6; Deuteronomy 2:8; 2 Kings 14:22; 2 Kings 16:6; Genesis 36:41)

אֵילוֺת: proper name [of a location]: id. (1 Kings 9:26; 2 Kings 16:6; 2 Chronicles 8:17; 2 Chronicles 26:2)

Same root

אַיִלʼayil · H352properly, strength; hence, anything strong; specifically a chief (politically); also a ram (from his strength); a pilaster (as a strong support); an oak or other strong tree

Where it appears

Appears 8 times in the Bible.

Deuteronomy 2:8 “So we bypassed the territory of our relatives, the descendants of Esau, who live in Seir. We avoided the road through the Arabah Valley that comes up from Elath and Ezion-geber. “Then as we turned north along the desert route through Moab,
1 Kings 9:26 King Solomon also built a fleet of ships at Ezion-geber, a port near Elath in the land of Edom, along the shore of the Red Sea.
2 Kings 14:22 After his father’s death, Uzziah rebuilt the town of Elath and restored it to Judah.
2 Kings 16:6 At that time the king of Edom recovered the town of Elath for Edom. He drove out the people of Judah and sent Edomites to live there, as they do to this day.
2 Chronicles 8:17 Later Solomon went to Ezion-geber and Elath, ports along the shore of the Red Sea in the land of Edom.
2 Chronicles 26:2 After his father’s death, Uzziah rebuilt the town of Elath and restored it to Judah.

See every passage

Deuteronomy 2:8
1 Kings 9:26
2 Kings 14:22, 16:6
2 Chronicles 8:17, 26:2

Source: Brown, Driver and Briggs, Hebrew and English Lexicon of the Old Testament (1906), public domain; markup by unfoldingWord, CC BY (github.com/unfoldingWord/Brown-Driver-Briggs-Enhanced).