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# חֵלֹן

Biblical Hebrew · Strong's H2497

**Helon** — used 5 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

Helon [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1495/2497/#m1)

### Brown–Driver–Briggs 1906

חֵלֹן: n.pr.m. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1495/2497/#m2)

**The whole BDB entry:** n.pr.m. a man of Zebulon Nu 1:9; 2:7; 7:24, 29; 10:16 (𝔊 Χαιλων, 𝔊L Χελων).

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

## In the verses

[Numbers 1:9](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/NUM.1.9/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/NUM.1.9/#tree)

לִזְבוּלֻ֕ן אֱלִיאָ֖ב בֶּן־חֵלֹֽן׃

*Word for word:* for Zebulun Eliab the.son of.Helon

*JPS 1917:* Of Zebulun, Eliab the son of Helon.

[Numbers 10:16](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/NUM.10.16/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/NUM.10.16/#tree)

וְעַ֨ל־צְבָ֔א מַטֵּ֖ה בְּנֵ֣י זְבוּלֻ֑ן אֱלִיאָ֖ב בֶּן־חֵלֽוֹן׃

*Word for word:* and.\[was\] over the.military.group of.the.tribe of.the.descendants of.Zebulun Eliab the.son of.Helon

*JPS 1917:* And over the host of the tribe of the children of Zebulun was Eliab the son of Helon.

## On Mova

- [This word in the Tanakh dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/tanakh/w/2497.html) on Mova free.
- [Trees and pragmatics of its meanings](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1495/2497/): 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).