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# אֵילֹון

Biblical Hebrew · Strong's H356

**Elon** — used 6 times in the Hebrew Bible. Below: its meanings with their sources, MACULA's glosses, and 2 verses word for word and in JPS 1917.

## Meaning

### OpenScriptures lexical index

Elon [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1488/356/#m1)

### Brown–Driver–Briggs 1906

אֵלוֹן²: n.pr.m. n.pr.loc. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1488/356/#m2)

**The whole BDB entry:** n.pr.m. (= id. cf. אֵלָה n.pr.) a son of Zebulun Gn 46:14 Nu 26:26. אֵילֹן Gn 26:34; אֵילוֹן 36:2 a Hittite, father-in-law of Esau. אֵילוֹן Ju 12:11, 12 a judge of Isr., of tribe of Zeb. n.pr.loc. אֵילוֹן Jos 19:43 a town of Dan; so 1 K 4:9 (where read א׳ וּבֵית ח׳ Th Klo).

Why these entries: BDB: same consonants, part of speech agrees, 6 of its verses cited, 0 words shared with the glosses, lists its Strong's number (6 candidates); OSHB: same consonants, part of speech agrees, 0 words shared with the BDB entry, 1 with the glosses (5 candidates)

## Glosses

MACULA's English glosses of the word in the text, with how often each is used: Elon (4); of Elon (2).

## In the verses

[Genesis 46:14](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/GEN.46.14/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/GEN.46.14/#tree)

וּבְנֵ֖י זְבוּלֻ֑ן סֶ֥רֶד וְאֵל֖וֹן וְיַחְלְאֵֽל׃

*Word for word:* and the.sons of.Zebulun Sered and Elon and Jahleel

*JPS 1917:* And the sons of Zebulun: Sered, and Elon, and Jahleel.

[Judges 12:12](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/JDG.12.12/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/JDG.12.12/#tree)

וַיָּ֖מָת אֵל֣וֹן הַזְּבֽוּלֹנִ֑י וַיִּקָּבֵ֥ר בְּאַיָּל֖וֹן בְּאֶ֥רֶץ זְבוּלֻֽן׃פ

*Word for word:* and he.died Elon the Zebulunite and he.was.buried in Aijalon in the.land of.Zebulun

*JPS 1917:* And Elon the Zebulunite died, and was buried in Aijalon in the land of Zebulun.

## On Mova

- [Trees and pragmatics of its meanings](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1488/356/): every English meaning parsed by Mova, with its dependency tree and frames.

Sources. The words, their counts, glosses and the word-for-word renderings: MACULA Hebrew (the Westminster Leningrad Codex; Clear Bible, CC BY 4.0). Meanings: the OpenScriptures lexical index (CC BY 4.0), Brown–Driver–Briggs 1906 and Jastrow 1903 (public domain, via Sefaria); Targum Onkelos from Sefaria (public domain). Translation: JPS 1917 (public domain, from eBible.org).