[Elamur Dictionary](https://md.dictionary.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://dictionary.elamur.ai/free/en/biblical-hebrew/%D7%9B%D7%A1%D7%9C%D7%95%D7%9F-2/)

[dictionaries](https://md.dictionary.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [Biblical Hebrew](https://md.dictionary.elamur.ai/free/en/biblical-hebrew/) / [כ](https://md.dictionary.elamur.ai/free/en/biblical-hebrew/kaf/)‎ / כְּסָלוֹן‎

# כְּסָלוֹן

Biblical Hebrew · Strong's H3693

**Chesalon** — 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

Chesalon [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1499/3693/#m1)

### Brown–Driver–Briggs 1906

כְּסָלוֹן: n.pr.loc. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1499/3693/#m2)

**The whole BDB entry:** n.pr.loc. on border of tribe of Judah = הַר־יְעָרִים Jos 15:10; = Kesla 10 miles W. Jerus., GuérinJud. ii. 11 ff. Mem.iii.25.26 BuhlG. § 92, p. 166.

Why these entries: BDB: headword, part of speech agrees, 1 of its verses cited, 0 words shared with the glosses, lists its Strong's number (2 candidates); OSHB: headword, part of speech agrees, 0 words shared with the BDB entry, 0 with the glosses (2 candidates)

## Glosses

MACULA's English glosses of the word in the text, with how often each is used: \[is\] Kesalon (1).

## In the verses

[Joshua 15:10](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/JOS.15.10/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/JOS.15.10/#tree)

וְנָסַב֩ הַגְּב֨וּל מִבַּעֲלָ֥ה יָ֙מָּה֙ אֶל־הַ֣ר שֵׂעִ֔יר וְעָבַ֕ר אֶל־כֶּ֧תֶף הַר־יְעָרִ֛ים מִצָּפ֖וֹנָה הִ֣יא כְסָל֑וֹן וְיָרַ֥ד בֵּֽית־שֶׁ֖מֶשׁבֵּֽית־שֶׁ֖מֶשׁ וְעָבַ֥ר תִּמְנָֽה׃

*Word for word:* and it.turns the border from Baalah westward to the.mountain of.Seir and it.passes.on to the.slope of.the.mountain of.Jearim from northward northward that \[is\].Kesalon and it.goes.down Beth Shemesh and it.passes.on Timnah

*JPS 1917:* And the border turned about from Baalah westward unto mount Seir, and passed along unto the side of mount Jearim on the north — the same is Chesalon — and went down to Beth-shemesh, and passed along by Timnah.

## On Mova

- [This word in the Tanakh dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/tanakh/w/3693.html) on Mova free.
- [Trees and pragmatics of its meanings](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1499/3693/): 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).