Elephantine

Elephantine is not named anywhere in the Bible; it is known instead from the Elephantine papyri. The curated description identifies it as a Nile-island garrison of Jewish soldiers under Persian rule, whose papyri preserve the earliest non-biblical Hebrew correspondence. Accordingly, no biblical verse can be cited for Elephantine’s location or activities. This page records the city as extra-biblical rather than as a place explicitly named in Scripture.