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# חֹלֹן

Biblical Hebrew · Strong's H2473

**Holon** — used 3 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

Holon [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1495/2473/#m1)

### Brown–Driver–Briggs 1906

חֹלוֹן: n.pr.loc. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1495/2473/#m2)

**The whole BDB entry:** n.pr.loc. in Moab חֹלוֹן Je 48:21 (𝔊 Χελων, Χαιλων. in Judah חֹלֹן Jos 15:51 (𝔊 Χαλου, 𝔊L Χειλου); priestly city 21:15 (𝔊 Γελλα, 𝔊L Ιλων) = חִילֵן 1 Ch 6:43 (𝔊L Χελων).

Why these entries: BDB: same consonants, part of speech agrees, 3 of its verses cited, 0 words shared with the glosses, lists its Strong's number (5 candidates); OSHB: same consonants, part of speech agrees, 0 words shared with the BDB entry, 1 with the glosses (4 candidates)

## Glosses

MACULA's English glosses of the word in the text, with how often each is used: Holon (3).

## In the verses

[Joshua 15:51](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/JOS.15.51/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/JOS.15.51/#tree)

וְגֹ֥שֶׁן וְחֹלֹ֖ן וְגִלֹ֑ה עָרִ֥ים אַֽחַת־עֶשְׂרֵ֖ה וְחַצְרֵיהֶֽן׃

*Word for word:* and Goshen and Holon and Giloh cities one.plus ten and villages their

*JPS 1917:* and Goshen, and Holon, and Giloh; eleven cities with their villages.

[Joshua 21:15](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/JOS.21.15/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/JOS.21.15/#tree)

וְאֶת־חֹלֹן֙ וְאֶת־מִגְרָשֶׁ֔הָ וְאֶת־דְּבִ֖ר וְאֶת־מִגְרָשֶֽׁהָ׃

*Word for word:* and (et) Holon and (et) lands its.pasture and (et) Debir and (et) lands its.pasture

*JPS 1917:* and Holon with the open land about it, and Debir with the open land about it;

## On Mova

- [This word in the Tanakh dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/tanakh/w/2473.html) on Mova free.
- [Trees and pragmatics of its meanings](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1495/2473/): 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).