αὐλών
ravine, valley
Where this word appears
A sample of passages — one per book it occurs in — where αὐλών appears in the Greek Septuagint (of 7 total occurrences). Click any verse to open its interlinear word-by-word view. Verse text is shown in the LXX2012 (modern English Septuagint) for context; the Greek form is the matched word — the English is not keyword-highlighted.
- 1 Samuel 17:3 αὐλών And the Philistines stand on the mountain on one side, and Israel stands on the mountain on the other side, and the valley was between them.
- 1 Chronicles 10:7 αὐλών And all the men of Israel that were in the valley saw that Israel fled, and that Saul and his sons were dead, and they left their cities, and fled: and the Philistines came and lived in them.
- 1 Chronicles 12:16 αὐλών And there came some of the sons of Benjamin and Juda to the assistance of David.
- 1 Chronicles 27:29 αὐλών And over the oxen pasturing in Saron was Satrai the Saronite; and over the oxen in the valleys was Sophat the son of Adli.
- 2 Chronicles 20:26 αὐλών And it came to pass on the fourth day they were gathered to the Valley of Blessing; for there they blessed the Lord: therefore they called the name of the place the Valley of Blessing, until this day.
- Jeremiah 31:8 αὐλών And destruction shall come upon every city, it shall by no means escape; the valley also shall perish, and the plain country shall be completely destroyed, as the Lord has said.
About this word
About this word
αὐλών (aulṓn), “ravine, valley,” is a word from the Greek Septuagint — the ancient Greek translation of the Hebrew Old Testament. It does not occur in the Greek New Testament, so it carries no Strong’s number from Thayer’s (New-Testament) lexicon; the gloss shown here is a curated modern-English sense rather than a Strong’s definition. It appears 7 times across the Septuagint — open the Appearances tab to read it in context.
The gloss above is Lemma’s own curated sense — this word carries no Strong’s number, so no lexicon we ship has an entry for it. The transliteration and this passage list are computed here from the tagged Septuagint text. What Lemma adds →
