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# עַלְוָן

Biblical Hebrew · Strong's H5935

**Alian** — used 2 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

Alian [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1506/5935/#m1)

### Brown–Driver–Briggs 1906

עַלְוָן: n.pr.m. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1506/5935/#m2)

**The whole BDB entry:** n.pr.m. in Edom Gn 36:23 (P), 𝔊 Γωλων, Γωλαμ = 1 Ch 1:40 Qr (Kt עלין), 𝔊 Σωλαμ, A Ιωλαμ, 𝔊L Αλουαν.

Why these entries: BDB: headword, part of speech agrees, 2 of its verses cited, 0 words shared with the glosses, lists its Strong's number (4 candidates); OSHB: headword, part of speech agrees, 0 words shared with the BDB entry, 0 with the glosses (3 candidates)

## Glosses

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

## In the verses

[Genesis 36:23](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/GEN.36.23/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/GEN.36.23/#tree)

וְאֵ֙לֶּה֙ בְּנֵ֣י שׁוֹבָ֔ל עַלְוָ֥ן וּמָנַ֖חַת וְעֵיבָ֑ל שְׁפ֖וֹ וְאוֹנָֽם׃

*Word for word:* and these \[were\].the.sons of.Shobal Alvan and Manahath and Ebal Shepho and Onam

*JPS 1917:* And these are the children of Shobal: Alvan and Manahath and Ebal, Shepho and Onam.

[1 Chronicles 1:40](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/1CH.1.40/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/1CH.1.40/#tree)

בְּנֵ֣י שׁוֹבָ֔ל עַלְיָ֧ן וּמָנַ֛חַת וְעֵיבָ֖ל שְׁפִ֣י וְאוֹנָ֑םס וּבְנֵ֥י צִבְע֖וֹן אַיָּ֥ה וַעֲנָֽה׃

*Word for word:* the.sons of.Shobal \[were\].Alyan and Manahath and Ebal Shephi and Onam and the.sons of.Zibeon \[were\].Aiah and Anah

*JPS 1917:* The sons of Shobal: Alian, and Manahath, and Ebal, Shephi, and Onam. And the sons of Zibeon: Aiah, and Anah.

## On Mova

- [This word in the Tanakh dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/tanakh/w/5935.html) on Mova free.
- [Trees and pragmatics of its meanings](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1506/5935/): 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).