Ἠλίας

See also: Ηλίας and Ἡλίας

Ancient Greek

Borrowed from Hebrew אֱלִיָּה‎ (eliyáh).

Ἠλίᾱς • (Ēlíās) m (genitive Ἠλίου); first declension

A male given name, equivalent to English Elias or Elijah
Elijah, an Israelite prophet.
- 93 CE – 94 CE, Josephus, Antiquities of the Jews 8.331

The variant Ἠλίας (Ēlías) is found in the earliest manuscripts and is considered to most likely be the authentic version.

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.

Greek: Ηλίας (Ilías)
→ Arabic: إِلْيَاس‎ (ʾilyās)
- → Albanian: Ilijaz
- → Bashkir: Ильяс (Il’yas)
- → Turkish: İlyas
- → Uzbek: Ilyos
→ 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: Илија
  
  Latin: Ilija
- → Ukrainian: Ілля (Illja)

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’s Exhaustive Concordance to the Bible, 1979
Nestle, Eberhard; Aland, Kurt; et al. (2012) Novum Testamentum Graece‎, 28th revised edition, 4th corrected printing edition, Stuttgart: Stuttgart Deutsche Bibelgesellschaft, →ISBN

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