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HebrewH5859Noun

עִיּוֹן

iy.yon

3Occurrences
H5859Strong's #
NounPart of Speech

Definition

Quick Definition(Strong's Concordance)

Ijon, a place in Palestine

from H5856 (עִי); ruin;

Full Lexicon Entry(Abbott-Smith)
Ijon = "a ruin" a place in the north of Palestine belonging to the tribe of Naphtali Also named: dan ya.an (*יַעַן *"Jaan" H1842)

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Grammar & Morphology

Part of Speech

Noun

Morphology Code

N:N--L

Full Description

N:N--L

Occurrences

עִיּוֹן appears 3 times in the Old Testament.

Distribution by Book

1 Kings
1
2 Chronicles
1
2 Kings
1

Key Passages

1 Kings 15:20BSB

And Ben-hadad listened to King Asa and sent the commanders of his armies against the cities of Israel, conquering Ijon, Dan, Abel-beth-maacah, and the whole land of Naphtali, including the region of Chinnereth.

2 Chronicles 16:4BSB

And Ben-hadad listened to King Asa and sent the commanders of his armies against the cities of Israel, conquering Ijon, Dan, Abel-maim, and all the store cities of Naphtali.

2 Kings 15:29BSB

In the days of Pekah king of Israel, Tiglath-pileser king of Assyria came and captured Ijon, Abel-beth-maacah, Janoah, Kedesh, Hazor, Gilead, and Galilee, including all the land of Naphtali, and he took the people as captives to Assyria.

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