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Elam (Hebr. highland). A region which took its name from a son of Sem, and corresponded to the Elymais of the Greek and Roman writers. It was a powerful monarchy in Abraham's day, and long retained its own princes, but finally became a province of Babylonia and afterwards of Persia.