Brown Driver Briggs

 Elam = "eternity"
n pr m
1. a Korhite Levite in the time of David
2. a chief man of the tribe of Benjamin
3. ancestor of a family of exiles who returned with Zerubbabel
4. a chief of the people who signed the covenant with Nehemiah
5. another ancestor of another family of exiles who returned with
Zerubbabel
6. a priest who assisted at the dedication of the wall of Jerusalem
in the time of Nehemiah
7. another head of a family of returning exiles
n pr loc
8. a province east of Babylon and northeast of the lower Tigris