HebrewH0436Noun (Masculine)

אֵלוֹן

e.lon

9Occurrences
H0436Strong's #
Noun (Masculine)Part of Speech

Definition

Quick Definition(Strong's Concordance)

an oak or other strong tree

prolonged from H352 (אַיִל);

Full Lexicon Entry(Abbott-Smith)
This name means tree, great tree, terebinth Combined with a.nan (*עָנַן *"Diviners'" H6049)

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Grammar & Morphology

Part of Speech

Noun (Masculine)

Morphology Code

H:N-M

Full Description

H:N-M

Occurrences

אֵלוֹן appears 9 times in the Old Testament.

Distribution by Book

Genesis
4
Judges
3
1 Samuel
1
Deuteronomy
1

Key Passages

1 Samuel 10:3BSB

Then you will go on from there until you come to the Oak of Tabor. Three men going up to God at Bethel will meet you there, one carrying three young goats, another carrying three loaves of bread, and another carrying a skin of wine.

Deuteronomy 11:30BSB

Are not these mountains across the Jordan, west of the road toward the sunset, in the land of the Canaanites who live in the Arabah opposite Gilgal near the Oak of Moreh?

Genesis 12:6BSB

Abram traveled through the land as far as the site of the Oak of Moreh at Shechem. And at that time the Canaanites were in the land.

Genesis 13:18BSB

So Abram moved his tent and went to live near the Oaks of Mamre at Hebron, where he built an altar to the LORD.

Genesis 14:13BSB

Then an escapee came and reported this to Abram the Hebrew. Now Abram was living near the Oaks of Mamre the Amorite, a brother of Eshcol and Aner, all of whom were bound by treaty to Abram.

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