Editing Elath (section)

==Name==
The name likely comes from the Hebrew root {{smallcaps|ʾyl}} ({{langx|he|א י ל}}), which is also the root for the word ''Elah'' ({{langx|he|אלה}}), meaning [[Pistacia]] tree. <ref>{{JewishEncyclopedia|title=OAK AND TEREBINTH |url=https://jewishencyclopedia.com/articles/11638-oak-and-terebinth}}</ref> There may be an etymological relationship between ''ʾElat ''goddess and אלה terebinth.<ref name="Locatell McKinny Shai 2022 p. ">{{cite journal | last=Locatell | first=Christian | last2=McKinny | first2=Chris | last3=Shai | first3=Itzhaq | title=Tree of Life Motif, Late Bronze Canaanite Cult, and a Recently Discovered Krater from Tel Burna | journal=Journal of the American Oriental Society | volume=142 | issue=3 | date=2022-09-30 | issn=2169-2289 | doi=10.7817/jaos.142.3.2022.ar024 | page=}}</ref> Like numerous other localities, Eilat is mentioned in the Bible both in singular (possibly [[construct state]]) and plural form (Eilot).<ref name="grinzweig110">{{cite journal|author=Grinzweig, Michael|editor1-last=Cohen|editor1-first=Meir|editor2-last=Schiller|editor2-first=Eli|year=1993|title=From the Items of the Name Eilat|issue= 93–94: Eilat – Human, Sea and Desert|journal=Ariel|publisher=Ariel Publishing|page=110|language=he}}</ref> Elath was an Israelite city that existed in the same general area. The original settlement was probably at the northern tip of the Gulf of Eilat.<ref>Dr. Muhammed Abdul Nayeem, (1990). ''Prehistory and Protohistory of the [[Arabian Peninsula]]''. Hyderabad. ISBN.</ref> [[Ancient Egypt]]ian records also document the extensive and lucrative mining operations and trade across the Red Sea with Egypt starting as early as the [[Fourth Dynasty of Egypt]].{{Citation needed|date=August 2017}} Elath is mentioned in antiquity as a major trading partner with Elim, [[Thebes, Egypt|Thebes]]' Red Sea Port, as early as the [[Twelfth Dynasty of Egypt|Twelfth Dynasty]].{{Citation needed|date=August 2017}} Trade between Elim and Elath furnished [[frankincense]] and [[myrrh]], brought up from [[Ethiopia]] and [[Land of Punt|Punt]]; [[bitumen]] and [[natron]], from the [[Dead Sea]]; finely woven [[linen]], from [[Byblos]]; and copper amulets, from [[Timna Valley|Timna]]; all mentioned in the [[Periplus of the Erythraean Sea]].{{Citation needed|date=August 2017}} In antiquity Elath bordered the states of [[Edom]], [[Midian]] and the tribal territory of the [[Rephidim]], the indigenous inhabitants of the [[Sinai Peninsula]].{{Citation needed|date=August 2017}}