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HebrewH0065Noun

אָבֵל מְחוֹלָה

a.vel me.cho.lah

3Occurrences
H0065Strong's #
NounPart of Speech

Definition

Quick Definition(Strong's Concordance)

Abel-Mecholah, a place in Palestine

from H58 (אָבֵל) and H4246 (מְחֹלָה)xlit mᵉchôwlâh corrected to mᵉchôlâh; meadow of dancing;

Full Lexicon Entry(Abbott-Smith)
Abel Meholah = "meadow of dancing" a city of Issachar, birthplace of Elisha

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Grammar & Morphology

Part of Speech

Noun

Morphology Code

N:N--L

Full Description

N:N--L

Occurrences

אָבֵל מְחוֹלָה appears 3 times in the Old Testament.

Distribution by Book

1 Kings
2
Judges
1

Key Passages

1 Kings 19:16BSB

You are also to anoint Jehu son of Nimshi as king over Israel and Elisha son of Shaphat from Abel-meholah to succeed you as prophet.

1 Kings 4:12BSB

Baana son of Ahilud in Taanach, in Megiddo, and in all of Beth-shean next to Zarethan below Jezreel, from Beth-shean to Abel-meholah and on past Jokmeam;

Judges 7:22BSB

And when the three hundred rams’ horns sounded, the LORD set all the men in the camp against one another with their swords. The army fled to Beth-shittah toward Zererah as far as the border of Abel-meholah near Tabbath.

Lexicon data from STEPBible.org (Tyndale House, Cambridge) under CC BY 4.0 license.