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HebrewH5700Noun

עֶגְלוֹן

eg.lon

12Occurrences
H5700Strong's #
NounPart of Speech

Definition

Quick Definition(Strong's Concordance)

Eglon, the name of a place in Palestine and of a Moabitish king

from H5695 (עֵגֶל); vituline;

Full Lexicon Entry(Abbott-Smith)
§ Eglon = "calf-like" a royal city in Canaan that opposed the conquest; located in the low lands of Judah

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Grammar & Morphology

Part of Speech

Noun

Morphology Code

N:N--L

Full Description

N:N--L

Occurrences

עֶגְלוֹן appears 12 times in the Old Testament.

Distribution by Book

Joshua
8
Judges
4

Key Passages

Judges 3:12BSB

Once again the Israelites did evil in the sight of the LORD. So He gave Eglon king of Moab power over Israel, because they had done evil in the sight of the LORD.

Judges 3:15BSB

And again they cried out to the LORD, and He raised up Ehud son of Gera, a left-handed Benjamite, as their deliverer. So they sent him with tribute to Eglon king of Moab.

Joshua 10:3BSB

Therefore Adoni-zedek king of Jerusalem sent word to Hoham king of Hebron, Piram king of Jarmuth, Japhia king of Lachish, and Debir king of Eglon, saying,

Joshua 10:23BSB

So they brought the five kings out of the cave—the kings of Jerusalem, Hebron, Jarmuth, Lachish, and Eglon.

Joshua 10:36BSB

Then Joshua and all Israel with him went up from Eglon to Hebron and fought against it.

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