Ἠλίας

See also: Ηλίας and Ἡλίας

Ancient Greek

Alternative forms

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

Etymology

Borrowed from Hebrew אֱלִיָּה (eliyáh).

Pronunciation

 

• IPA^(key): /iˈli.as/ → /iˈli.as/

• (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

1. a male given name from Hebrew, equivalent to English Elias or Elijah
2. 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 (İlʹyas)
  • → 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)
• → 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^[1], 28th revised edition, 4th corrected printing edition, Stuttgart: Stuttgart Deutsche Bibelgesellschaft, →ISBN