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# אַיָּלוֹן

Biblical Hebrew · Strong's H357

**Aijalon** — used 10 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

Aijalon [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1488/357/#m1)

### Brown–Driver–Briggs 1906

אַיָּלוֹן: n.pr.loc. Aijalon [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1488/357/#m2)

**The whole BDB entry:** n.pr.loc. (Deer-field) Aijalon—א׳ Jos 10:12 + 8 times; אַיָּלֹ֫נָה 1 S 14:31— city in Dan Jos 19:42; 21:24 (Levit. city) Ju 1:35; 1 S 14:31 doubtless same; so 1 Ch 6:54 (where Dan om.); app. later in Benj. 1 Ch 8:13 2 Ch 11:10; 28:18 (v. Be); עֵמֶק אַיָּלוֹן Jos 10:12 almost certainly named from same; = Epiph. Ἰαλω, mod. Jâlo RobBR ii. 253, Surveyiii. 19. city in Zebulun Ju 12:12.

Why these entries: BDB: headword, part of speech agrees, 10 of its verses cited, 1 words shared with the glosses, lists its Strong's number (6 candidates); OSHB: headword, part of speech agrees, 1 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: Aijalon (8); of Aijalon (1); to (1).

## In the verses

[Joshua 19:42](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/JOS.19.42/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/JOS.19.42/#tree)

וְשַֽׁעֲלַבִּ֥ין וְאַיָּל֖וֹן וְיִתְלָֽה׃

*Word for word:* and Shaalabbin and Aijalon and Ithlah

*JPS 1917:* and Shaalabbin, and Aijalon, and Ithlah;

[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/1488/357/): 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).