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# אֵלוֹן

Biblical Hebrew · Strong's H436

**terebinth** — 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

terebinth [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1488/436/#m1)

### Brown–Driver–Briggs 1906

אֵלוֹן: terebinth [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1488/436/#m2)

**The whole BDB entry:** n.\[f.\] terebinth (= אֵלָה)—א׳ cstr. Gn 12:6 + 4 times; pl. cstr. אֵלוֹנֵי Gn 13:18 + 3 times—terebinth (or other tall tree, cf. infr. on 1 S 10:3; Ju 4:5), marking shrine, & hence used in topogr. designations; א׳ מוֹרֶה (teacher’s terebinth) Gn 12:6 (v. Di) so Dt 11:30; א׳ מְעוֹנְנִים (conjurors’ tereb.) Ju 9:37; distinguished by owner or ruler א׳ מַמְרֵא Gn 13:18; 14:13; 18:1; by neighbouring town (ב)צענים Ju 4:11; cf. א׳ בְּצַעֲנַנִּים Jos 19:33 (edd. אַלּוֹן, but v. Norzi Baer Di); אֵ׳ מֻצָּב אֲשֶׁר בִּשְׁכֶם Ju 9:6 (cf. אֵלָה Gn 35:4); א׳ תָּבוֹר 1 S 10:3 read א׳ דְּבוֹרָה (& cf. אַלּוֹן בָּכוּת Gn 35:8, & תֹּמֶר דְּבוֹרָה Ju 4:5) cf. EwGesch. iii. 31 Th Di Gn 35:8 (v. also sub אַלּוֹן).

Why these entries: BDB: headword, part of speech agrees, 10 of its verses cited, 0 words shared with the glosses, lists its Strong's number (5 candidates); OSHB: headword, part of speech agrees, 1 words shared with the BDB entry, 0 with the glosses (5 candidates)

## Glosses

MACULA's English glosses of the word in the text, with how often each is used: the great trees (4); \[the\] great tree (2); the great tree (2).

## In the verses

[Genesis 18:1](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/GEN.18.1/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/GEN.18.1/#tree)

וַיֵּרָ֤א אֵלָיו֙ יְהוָ֔ה בְּאֵלֹנֵ֖י מַמְרֵ֑א וְה֛וּא יֹשֵׁ֥ב פֶּֽתַח־הָאֹ֖הֶל כְּחֹ֥ם הַיּֽוֹם׃

*Word for word:* and he.appeared to him Yahweh at the.great.trees of.Mamre and he \[was\].sitting the.opening of the.tent about the.heat of the.day

*JPS 1917:* And the LORD appeared unto him by the terebinths of Mamre, as he sat in the tent door in the heat of the day;

[Genesis 12:6](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/GEN.12.6/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/GEN.12.6/#tree)

וַיַּעֲבֹ֤ר אַבְרָם֙ בָּאָ֔רֶץ עַ֚ד מְק֣וֹם שְׁכֶ֔ם עַ֖ד אֵל֣וֹן מוֹרֶ֑ה וְהַֽכְּנַעֲנִ֖י אָ֥ז בָּאָֽרֶץ׃

*Word for word:* and he.passed Abram in the land to the.place of.Shechem to the.great.tree of.Moreh and the Canaanite\[s\] then \[was\].in the land

*JPS 1917:* And Abram passed through the land unto the place of Shechem, unto the terebinth of Moreh. And the Canaanite was then in the land.

## On Mova

- [This word in the Tanakh dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/tanakh/w/436.html) on Mova free.
- [Trees and pragmatics of its meanings](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1488/436/): 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).