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# עִיּוֹן

Biblical Hebrew · Strong's H5859

**Ijon** — 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

Ijon [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1506/5859/#m1)

### Brown–Driver–Briggs 1906

עִיּוֹן: n.pr.loc. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1506/5859/#m2)

**The whole BDB entry:** n.pr.loc. Αιν, in Naphtali;—1 K 15:20 = 2 Ch 16:4; 2 K 15:29 (on 2 S 24:6 v. דָּן p. 193 a supr.). Perhaps = Tell Dibbin, on the platau Merj ʿayyûn BuhlGeogr. 11, 110), between the Lîṭânî and the Ḥāsbânî (Id. ib. 237 f.).

Why these entries: BDB: headword, part of speech agrees, 3 of its verses cited, 0 words shared with the glosses, lists its Strong's number (14 candidates); OSHB: headword, part of speech agrees, 0 words shared with the BDB entry, 1 with the glosses (9 candidates)

## Glosses

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

## In the verses

[2 Chronicles 16:4](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/2CH.16.4/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/2CH.16.4/#tree)

וַיִּשְׁמַ֨ע בֶּנ הֲדַ֜דבֶּנ הֲדַ֜ד אֶל־הַמֶּ֣לֶךְ אָסָ֗א וַ֠יִּשְׁלַח אֶת־שָׂרֵ֨י הַחֲיָלִ֤ים אֲשֶׁר־לוֹ֙ אֶל־עָרֵ֣י יִשְׂרָאֵ֔ל וַיַּכּוּ֙ אֶת־עִיּ֣וֹן וְאֶת־דָּ֔ן וְאֵ֖ת אָבֵ֣ל מָ֑יִם אָבֵ֣ל מָ֑יִם וְאֵ֥ת כָּֽל־מִסְכְּנ֖וֹת עָרֵ֥י נַפְתָּלִֽי׃

*Word for word:* and he.listened Ben Hadad to the king Asa and he.sent (et) the.commanders of the.armies which \[belonged\].to him against the.cities of.Israel and they.attacked (et) Ijon and (et) Dan and (et) Abel Maim and (et) all the.stores of.the.cities of.Naphtali

*JPS 1917:* And Ben-hadad hearkened unto king Asa, and sent the captains of his armies against the cities of Israel; and they smote Ijon, and Dan, and Abelmaim, and all the store-cities of Naphtali.

[1 Kings 15:20](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/1KI.15.20/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/1KI.15.20/#tree)

וַיִּשְׁמַ֨ע בֶּנ־הֲדַ֜דבֶּנ־הֲדַ֜ד אֶל־הַמֶּ֣לֶךְ אָסָ֗א וַ֠יִּשְׁלַח אֶת־שָׂרֵ֨י הַחֲיָלִ֤ים אֲשֶׁר־לוֹ֙ עַל־עָרֵ֣י יִשְׂרָאֵ֔ל וַיַּךְ֙ אֶת־עִיּ֣וֹן וְאֶת־דָּ֔ן וְאֵ֖ת אָבֵ֣ל בֵּֽית־מַעֲכָ֑ה אָבֵ֣ל בֵּֽית־מַעֲכָ֑האָבֵ֣ל בֵּֽית־מַעֲכָ֑ה וְאֵת֙ כָּל־כִּנְר֔וֹת עַ֖ל כָּל־אֶ֥רֶץ נַפְתָּלִֽי׃

*Word for word:* and he.listened Ben Hadad to the king Asa and he.sent (et) the.commanders of the.armies which \[belonged\].to him on the.cities of.Israel and he.attacked (et) Ijon and (et) Dan and (et) Abel Beth Maacah and (et) all Kinnereth with all the.land of.Naphtali

*JPS 1917:* And Ben-hadad hearkened unto king Asa, and sent the captains of his armies against the cities of Israel, and smote Ijon, and Dan, and Abel-beth-maacah, and all Chinneroth, with all the land of Naphtali.

## On Mova

- [This word in the Tanakh dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/tanakh/w/5859.html) on Mova free.
- [Trees and pragmatics of its meanings](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1506/5859/): 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).