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# אֵילֹון

Biblical Hebrew

**Elon** — used 1 times in the Hebrew Bible. Below: its meanings with their sources, MACULA's glosses, and 1 verse word for word and in JPS 1917.

## Meaning

### OpenScriptures lexical index

Elon [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1488/lemma_3a_5d0_5b5_5d9_5dc_5b9_5d5_5df/#m1)

### Brown–Driver–Briggs 1906

אֵלוֹן²: n.pr.m. n.pr.loc. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1488/lemma_3a_5d0_5b5_5d9_5dc_5b9_5d5_5df/#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, 1 of its verses cited, 0 words shared with the glosses (5 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 (1).

## In the verses

[Joshua 19:43](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/JOS.19.43/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/JOS.19.43/#tree)

וְאֵיל֥וֹן וְתִמְנָ֖תָה וְעֶקְרֽוֹן׃

*Word for word:* and Elon and (to) Timnah and Ekron

*JPS 1917:* and Elon, and Timnah, and Ekron;

## On Mova

- [This word in the Tanakh dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/tanakh/w/lemma_3a_5d0_5b5_5d9_5dc_5b9_5d5_5df.html) on Mova free.
- [Trees and pragmatics of its meanings](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1488/lemma_3a_5d0_5b5_5d9_5dc_5b9_5d5_5df/): 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).