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# עֶגְלוֹן

Biblical Hebrew · Strong's H5700

**Eglon** — 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

Eglon [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1506/5700/#m1)

### Brown–Driver–Briggs 1906

עֶגְלוֹן: n.pr. loc. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1506/5700/#m2)

**The whole BDB entry:** n.pr. (cf. GrayProp. N. 92, No. 27);— m. a king of Moab, Ju 3:12, 14, 15, 17(×2), 𝔊 Εγλωμ. loc. Jos 10:3, 5, 23, 37; 12:12; 15:34, c. ה loc. 10:34, מֵעֶגְלוֹ֫נָה v 36; 𝔊 Οδολλαμ Jos 10; Αιλαμ 12:12, A Εγλωμ, 𝔊L Εγλων, and so 15:39; site ʿAǧlân, N. of Telel-Ḥesy, BuhlGeogr. 192.

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

## Glosses

MACULA's English glosses of the word in the text, with how often each is used: Eglon (5).

## In the verses

[Judges 3:14](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/JDG.3.14/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/JDG.3.14/#tree)

וַיַּעַבְד֤וּ בְנֵֽי־יִשְׂרָאֵל֙ אֶת־עֶגְל֣וֹן מֶֽלֶךְ־מוֹאָ֔ב שְׁמוֹנֶ֥ה עֶשְׂרֵ֖ה שָׁנָֽה׃ס

*Word for word:* and they.served the.people of.Israel (et) Eglon the.king of.Moab eight- teen year\[s\]

*JPS 1917:* And the children of Israel served Eglon the king of Moab eighteen years.

[Judges 3:17](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/JDG.3.17/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/JDG.3.17/#tree)

וַיַּקְרֵב֙ אֶת־הַמִּנְחָ֔ה לְעֶגְל֖וֹן מֶ֣לֶךְ מוֹאָ֑ב וְעֶגְל֕וֹן אִ֥ישׁ בָּרִ֖יא מְאֹֽד׃

*Word for word:* and he.brought.near (et) the tribute to Eglon the.king of.Moab and Eglon \[was\].a.man fat very

*JPS 1917:* And he offered the present unto Eglon king of Moab — now Eglon was a very fat man.

## On Mova

- [Trees and pragmatics of its meanings](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1506/5700/): 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).