Elrington.THE Right Rev. Thomas, lord bishop of Leighlin and F'erns, obtained a scholarship in the University of Dublin in 1778, and in 1781 was elected fellow. In 1794 he was appointed Donellan lecturer at his alma mater; in 1795, professor of mathematics, and in 1806, rector of Ardtree, in the count}' of Tyrone. In 1811 he was raised to the highest literary rank in Ireland by appointment as provost of Trinity College. This position he held with high credit to himself until 1820, when he was consecrated bishop of Limerick. In 1822 he was transferred to the see of Leighlin and Ferns. He died in 1835. Besides editing several of the classics, he published his lectures delivered while Donellan lecturer : " The proof of Christianity derived from the miracles recorded in the New Testament," iinder the title, Sermons preached in the Chapel of Trinity College, etc. (Dublin, 1796, Sro) :— Reflections 07i the Aj)pointment of Dr. Milner as the Political Agent of the Roman Catholic Clergy in Ireland (1809, 8vo) : — The Clergy of the Church of England truly ordained (1809, 8vo), and a number of other polemical writings. — An- nual Biography and OVUuary, xx (1836) ; Darling, Cy- clopaedia Bibliographica, p. 1034-5.
ELsner, Jacob, D.D., was born at Saalfeld, Prus- sia, in March, 1692. He studied at the University of Konigsberg, and in 1715 became " con rector" of the Reformed school in that city. Two years later he vis- ited Utrecht and Leyden. In 1720 he was appoint- ed professor of theology and philology at Bingen ; in 1722, rector and first professor of the Joachimsthal Gym- nasium at Berlin. Sul)sequentl}' he became pastor at one of the Berlin churches. From 1742 to 1744 he was director of the class of l)elles-lettres at tlie Royal So- ciety. He died Oct. 8, 1750. His principal works are : Observationes sacrce in novi foederis lihros (Traj. 1720- 1728, 2 vols. 8vo) : — Comm. sacr-o-jthilologiciis in evang. Matthnd (ZwolliB, 1767-69, 2 vols. 4to) ■.—Commentari- vs in evang. Marci (Traj. 1733, 4to). — Darling, Cyclop. Bibliographica ; Doering, die gelehrten Theolog. Dcutsch- lands, i, 366 ; Hoefer, Nouv. Biogr. Giner. xv, 919.
El'tekeh [some Elte'kch'] (Heb. Eltekeh', ^1;?^^^, God is its/er/r, i. e. object of awe ; but Eltelce' , XJI^lTlbx in Josh, xxi, 23; Sept 'EX^f/cw v. r. 'AX^nm- and ?) 'E\ic(u.3r«i7/, Vulg. Elthece and^Eltheco), a city in the tribe of Dan, a|)parently near the border, and men- tioned between Ekron and Gibbethon (Josh, xix, 44).
With its " suburbs" it was assigned as a city of refuge and Levitical cit}' to the Kohathites (Josh, xxi, 2b) ; but it is omitted in the parallel list (1 Chron. vi). The site is possibly now represented by El-Mansurah (' ' the victorious"), "a miserable little village" near a copi- ous spring, in the plain between Ramleh and Akir (Robinson, Researches, iii, 21). Schwarz {Palest, p. 141) confounds Eltekeh with Eltekon, and locates both at a village which he calls '■'■Althini, not far from Beilin (Baalath)."
El'tekon [some Elte'kon'] (Heb. Eltekon', 'ipP^^, God is its. foundation ; Sept. 'EXSifKovv v. r. 'E\i:iKiv and BtKovp, Vulg. Eliecon), a city of Judah, in the mountain-district, mentioned last in order after Maar- ath and Beth-Anoth (Josh, xv, 59), being in the group north of Hebron {KGil,Coniment. in loc). See Judah, It is perhaps identical in site with the present Beii- Sahur el-Atikah, a little S.E. of Jerusalem. See El- tekeh. It is perhaps the Altaqu mentioned in the Assyrian inscriptions. See Hezekiah.
Elto'lad [many El'toladr\ (Heb. Eltolad' , iVrbx, perhaps meaning God is its race or posteritj- ; but, ac- cording to FUrst [Nebr. JIandw. s. v.], whose God is Mylitta, the Phoenician deity [comp. Moladah] ; Sept. 'EK^wUdS and 'EX.^iiiXa'c), v. r. 'EpiSiovSdS and 'E^i^ov- Xd ; Vulg. ElthokuT), a citj- in the south of Judah, men- tioned between Azem and Chesil (Josh, xv, 29), but afterwards assigned to Simeon, and mentioned be- tween Azem and Bethul (Josh, xix, 4). It remained in possession of the latter tribe in the time of David (1 Chron. iv, 29, where it is called simply Tolad). It is possibly the ruined site Tell-Melaha, observed by Van de Velde {Memoir, p. 113) along the N. branch of wady Sheriah, which empties into the Mediterranean a little S. of Gaza.
E'lul (Heb. EM, ^^ibs;, Neh. vi, 15 ; Sept. 'EXoi'X, also in 1 Mace, xiv, 27 ; the Macedonian Vopirialoc) is the name of that month which was the sixth of the ecclesiastical, and the twelfth of the civil year of the Jews, and which began with the new moon of our Au- gust or September, and consisted of 29 daj's. Several unsatisfactory' attempts have been made to find a Syro- Arabian etj-mology for the word, as it occurs in a sim- ilar form in both these languages (see Gesenius, Thes. Hebr. p. 1036). The most recent derivation, that of Benfey, deduces it, through many commutations and mutilations, from an original Zend form haurvatdt {Monatsnctmen, p. 126). According to the Talmud, the following are the days devoted to leligious serv- ices. See Calendar.
1. The new moon. The propitiatory prayers are com- menced in tlie evening service after tlie new moon.
7. The festival of tlie dedication of tlie walls of Jeruealem by Neheniiah.
17. A fast because of the death of the spies who brought up the evil report of the Land of Promise (Num. xiv, 3G, 37).