Not found in Scripture except indirectly in the original Greek word (elephantinos) translated “of ivory” in Rev. 18:12, and in the Hebrew word (shenhabim, meaning “elephant’s tooth”) rendered “ivory” in 1 Kings 10:22 and 2 Chr. 9:21.
Elephant
The word elephant never appears in the King James Bible. What these verses mention instead is ivory, the material of an elephant’s tusks, and it stands for luxury. Solomon built “a great throne of ivory, and overlaid it with the best gold,” and his ships returned every few years with ivory, apes and peacocks. A king’s palaces are ivory in Psalm 45, and in Song of Solomon a lover’s neck is “a tower of ivory.” Revelation 18 lists ivory among the goods of a great trading city. First Kings 10 is the best place to see it.
6 verses
1 Kings
1 Kings 10:18
Moreover the king made a great throne of ivory, and overlaid it with the best gold.
1 Kings 10:22
For the king had at sea a navy of Tharshish with the navy of Hiram: once in three years came the navy of Tharshish, bringing gold, and silver, ivory, and apes, and peacocks.
Psalms
Psalms 45:8
All thy garments smell of myrrh, and aloes, and cassia, out of the ivory palaces, whereby they have made thee glad.
Song of Solomon
Song of Solomon 5:14
His hands are as gold rings set with the beryl: his belly is as bright ivory overlaid with sapphires.
Song of Solomon 7:4
Thy neck is as a tower of ivory; thine eyes like the fishpools in Heshbon, by the gate of Bathrabbim: thy nose is as the tower of Lebanon which looketh toward Damascus.
Revelation
Revelation 18:12
The merchandise of gold, and silver, and precious stones, and of pearls, and fine linen, and purple, and silk, and scarlet, and all thyine wood, and all manner vessels of ivory, and all manner vessels of most precious wood, and of brass, and iron, and marble,
From Easton's Bible Dictionary
Matthew George Easton, 1897