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# עֶגְלוֹן

Biblical Hebrew

**Eglon** — used 8 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/lemma_3a_5e2_5b6_5d2_5b0_5dc_5d5_5b9_5df/#m1)

### Brown–Driver–Briggs 1906

עֶגְלוֹן: n.pr. loc. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1506/lemma_3a_5e2_5b6_5d2_5b0_5dc_5d5_5b9_5df/#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, 8 of its verses cited, 0 words shared with the glosses (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: of Eglon (4); Eglon (3); to (1).

## In the verses

[Joshua 15:39](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/JOS.15.39/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/JOS.15.39/#tree)

לָכִ֥ישׁ וּבָצְקַ֖ת וְעֶגְלֽוֹן׃

*Word for word:* Lachish and Bozkath and Eglon

*JPS 1917:* Lachish, and Bozkath, and Eglon;

[Joshua 12:12](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/JOS.12.12/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/JOS.12.12/#tree)

מֶ֤לֶךְ עֶגְלוֹן֙ אֶחָ֔ד מֶ֥לֶךְ גֶּ֖זֶר אֶחָֽד׃

*Word for word:* the.king of.Eglon one the.king of.Gezer one

*JPS 1917:* the king of Eglon, one; the king of Gezer, one;

## On Mova

- [Trees and pragmatics of its meanings](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1506/lemma_3a_5e2_5b6_5d2_5b0_5dc_5d5_5b9_5df/): 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).