International Standard Bible Encyclopedia

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

See BEHEMOTH; IVORY.