אֶזֶל
Ezel
BDB lists 2 entries for ‘Ezel’ fuller range ↓
Full lexicon entry — Brown-Driver-Briggs (BDB)
From Brown-Driver-Briggs (BDB)
Where this word appears
Grammar key — what these labels mean
Noun type
- Proper
- A name of a specific person, place, or people (e.g. Abraham, Zion, Israel).
Every verse where H237 appears — 1 distinct verse across 1 book. Click any verse to open its interlinear word-by-word view. Verse text shown in the World English Bible for context — . Each verse’s Hebrew form is shown with its reference; the English is not keyword-highlighted, since the data carries no word-level English alignment. Use “Compare translations” on any verse to read it across multiple English versions. This concordance covers the Hebrew Bible; Septuagint (Greek Old Testament) occurrences are not indexed here.
1 Samuel 1 verse
About this entry
At a glance — auto-summarized from this page’s data, not written by a person. Every figure links to its source below. This summary describes the numbers; it doesn’t interpret them.
אזל (ʼezel) is a Hebrew name most often rendered “Ezel.” A scarce word — 1 verse in all of the Hebrew Bible. 1 Samuel dominates its distribution — 1 of 1 verses. Found nowhere else but 1 Samuel 20:19. For the data behind this summary, explore 1-verse concordance and the renderings breakdown below.
Gloss history
Strong's 1890 vs modern scholarship
About this word
Strong's H237 catalogs a Hebrew word from the Hebrew Old Testament.
These counts are not copied from any lexicon or concordance. They are computed here, from the morphology-tagged Hebrew Old Testament. What Lemma adds →
- 1
- distinct verses
- The word appears in 1 distinct verse.
- 1 / 39
- OT books
- The word appears in 1 of 39 Old Testament books.
- #6,101
- by frequency
- Rank #6,101 (rank 6,101 of 8,640 Hebrew words by occurrence).
View all 1 occurrence in the concordance →
Most concentrated in
- 1 Samuel 1 verse 100%
By section of the Old Testament
By traditional corpus
Conventional, traditional groupings — biblical authorship is debated, so this is a traditional corpus grouping, not an authorship claim. Each share is this word’s portion of its verses in that division of the Hebrew canon. Each figure is a share of the word’s 1 distinct verse.
- Prophets (Nevi'im) 1 verse · 100%
How translations render this word
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- King James Version: Ezel 1×
- American Standard Version: Ezel 1×
- Berean Standard Bible: Ezel 1×
- unfoldingWord Literal Text: Ezel 1×
King James Version Public Domain
Renders H237 across 1 tagged occurrence — most commonly:
American Standard Version Public Domain
Renders H237 across 1 tagged occurrence — most commonly:
Berean Standard Bible Public Domain
Renders H237 across 1 tagged occurrence — most commonly:
unfoldingWord Literal Text CC BY-SA 4.0
Renders H237 across 1 tagged occurrence — most commonly:
Senses in BDB
The 2 senses BDB distinguishes for this word, in lexicon order (not ranked by frequency or importance). The full entry — with sub-senses — is in the Lexicon Entry tab.
- Ezel = "departure"
- a memorial stone between Ramah and Nob; scene of final farewell between David and Jonathan
Word origin
[ אֶזֶל ] only הָאָ֑זֶל 1 S 20:19 rd. הַלָּ(א)ז q.v.
— Brown-Driver-Briggs (Oxford 1906, public domain), digitized via Sefaria, supplemented by the OpenScriptures HebrewLexicon (CC BY 4.0). See Sources.
Derived from אזל (ʼâzal) (H235) — to go.
Jastrow Dictionary
A second Hebrew/Aramaic lexicon for comparison, covering Aramaic and post-biblical (Talmudic, Targumic, Midrashic) usage that the biblical-Hebrew BDB does not. Matched by lemma rather than by Strong’s number, so a lemma may carry more than one Jastrow headword (shown separately below), and the entries cover usage well beyond the Bible.
אֲזַל I
- to be gone, to leave; to go. Targ. Gen. XXXII, 1. Imper. אִיזֵּיל, אִזֵּיל. Targ. O. Num. XXII, 20; a. fr.—Y. Snh. X, 28ᵇ איזיל חמי וכ׳ go, show thy face &c. Ib. לינה מֵיזַל … דנא מיזל וכ׳ I will not go … for if I did go &c. Sabb. 116ᵃ א׳ כתב א׳ וכ׳ after the writing is gone, the sacredness of the scroll is gone (after the scroll has become unfit for sacred use, the material has lost its sacred character). Y. Dem. III, 23ᵇ bot. הא אזילא מיבלא וכ׳ that man’s load would soon be gone (if each were permitted to take a chip). Y. Ber. VIII, 12ᵃ הא אזילא ההיא דרב וכ׳ is the decision of Rab and Samuel gone (to be disregarded)? Y. Snh. X, 28ᵃ bot. הא א׳ הדא וכ׳ (ed. Krot. חדא) is that which was received from (is the tradition of) … to be disregarded? Y. Yeb. VIII, 9ᶜ bot. הא אזילא היא וכ׳ (ed. Krot. איזלא, corr. acc.; for היא read הדא or ההיא).—Trnsf. to depart life, die. Y. Ḥag. II, 77ᵈ bot. this one committed a sin וא׳ בה and died in it, and the other &c. M. Kat. 28ᵇ ווי לאזלא woe, for the departed one! Y. Keth. XII, 35ᵃ top אזיל to die, contrad. to אתי to resurrect.—Imperat. usu. זִיל = אזיל.—Ḥull. 11ᵇ ז׳ בתר רובא follow the majority of cases; a. fr.
אֲזַל II
- (= עזל; v. Ezek. XXVII, 19; √זל) to spin, weave. B. Mets. 24ᵇ קיבורא דאזלי ביה אזלויי a skein which the net-weavers had used; v. זוּל II. Denom. אִיזְלָא a. next w. e.g. Ezekiel 27:19
A Dictionary of the Targumim, the Talmud Babli and Yerushalmi, and the Midrashic Literature (Marcus Jastrow; London, Luzac, 1903) — Public Domain. Digitized via Sefaria. Digitized via Sefaria. Full attribution on Sources.
Same root — word family
Other BDB entries built from the same root as H237, grouped by Strong’s listed origin. These share a root / origin per the lexicon — not necessarily a shared meaning. Each links to that word’s own entry.
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Bible dictionary
Public-domain dictionary articles matched to this entry by name (Ezel). A biblical name can be shared by more than one person or place, so an article may treat several.
Easton's Bible Dictionary · M. G. Easton, 1897
A separation, (1 Sam. 20:19), a stone, or heap of stones, in the neighbourhood of Saul's residence, the scene of the parting of David and Jonathan (42). The margin of the Authorized Version reads, "The stone that sheweth the way," in this rendering following the Targum.
Smith's Bible Dictionary · William Smith, 1863
(departure), The stone, a well-known stone in the neighborhood of Saul's residence, the scene of the parting of David and Jonathan. (1 Samuel 20:19)
Hitchcock's Bible Names Dictionary · Roswell D. Hitchcock, 1869
going abroad; walk
Classic public-domain reference works; full attribution on Sources.
Septuagint verse parallels
This word appears in 1 verse that also exists in the Greek Old Testament (Septuagint), out of the 1 Hebrew verse it occurs in. You can read those verses in Greek by switching the Old Testament edition to the Septuagint.
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