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<p> '''Elath''' (''ç'lath'' ), ''trees, a grove,'' perhaps ''terebinth-grove.'' [[A]] city of Idumea, on the extremity of the eastern [[Gulf]] of the Red Sea, which is called from it ''Sinus Elaniticus—'' Elanitic Gulf, or the Gulf of Akabah. &nbsp;Deuteronomy 2:8; &nbsp;2 Kings 14:22; &nbsp;2 Kings 16:6. The Edomites being subdued, &nbsp;2 Samuel 8:14, David took possession of Elath or Eloth: and after him Solomon, whose fleet sailed from the neighboring town Ezion-geber to Ophir. &nbsp;1 Kings 9:26; &nbsp;2 Chronicles 8:17-18. It was again recovered by the Idumeans; and once more subdued by Uzziah, king of Judah; but Rezin, king of Syria, took it at length from the Jews, who seem never again to have recovered it. The site of Elath, the Ailah and Ælana of the [[Greeks]] and Romans, now consists of nothing but extensive mounds of rubbish, near the castle and village of ''Akabah.'' </p>