Ellasar
Ἐλλασάρ
Ellasar (Ἐλλασάρ), mentioned only in Genesis (14.1) as the country of Arioch, one of the kings associated with Chedorlaomer in his invasion of Canaan. Some have identified it with the Elisari of Arabia, others with Assyria, under the name El-Asur; but all is pure conjecture.
From William Smith (ed.), Dictionary of Greek and Roman Geography. Text provided under a CC BY-SA license by Perseus Digital Library, http://www.perseus.tufts.edu, with funding from the National Endowment for the Humanities and Tufts University. Data accessed from https://github.com/PerseusDL/canonical-pdlrefwk/ on 17 October 2026.