/(ʔ)eliˈja(h)u/
מקורTheophoric, from אֵל ('el, “god”) + ־ִי (-i, “my”) + ־יָהוּ (-yáhu, “the LORD”), literally meaning “Yahweh is my god.”
- Elijah (an Israelite prophet in the Abrahamic religions)
“וַיֹּאמֶר אֵלִיָּהוּ לְכָל־הָעָם גְּשׁוּ אֵלַי וַיִּגְּשׁוּ כָל־הָעָם אֵלָיו וַיְרַפֵּא אֶת־מִזְבַּח יְהוָה הֶהָרוּס׃” — And Elijah said unto all the people: ‘Come near unto me’; and all the people came near unto him. And he repaired the altar of the Lord that was thrown down.
“כְּגוֹן אֵלּוּ, אֵלִיָּהוּ בָא לְטַמֵּא וּלְטַהֵר, לְרַחֵק וּלְקָרֵב.” — In such cases, Elijah comes to render impure or pure, and to distance from or bring near.
“אֱלִיָּהוּ זָכוּר לַטּוֹב שָׁאַל לְרִבִּי נְהוֹרַיי מִפְּנֵי מַה בָּרָא הַקָּדוֹשׁ בָּרוּךְ הוּא שְׁקָצִים וּרְמָשִׂים בְּעוֹלָמוֹ” — Elijah, may his memory be for good, asked Rabbi Nehorai: Why did the Holy Blessed One create creeping and crawling things in His world?
- a male given name, equivalent to English Elijah or Elias
צורותאֵלִיָּהוּ(canonical, masculine) · 'Eliyáhu(romanization) · אֵלִיָּה(alternative)
מקור: Wiktionary