אֵלוֹן
Elon
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Full lexicon entry — Brown-Driver-Briggs (BDB)
From Brown-Driver-Briggs (BDB)
Where this word appears
Grammar key — what these labels mean
Part of speech
- Noun
- A naming word — a person, place, thing, or idea.
Noun type
- Proper
- A name of a specific person, place, or people (e.g. Abraham, Zion, Israel).
Every verse where H356 appears in the Book of Numbers — 1 distinct verse. 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.
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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.
The Hebrew name אילון centers on the idea of “Elon.” First canonically at Genesis 26:34, it enters the text early. The Hebrew Bible uses it across 7 verses — uncommon. Genesis dominates its distribution — 3 of 7 verses. For the data behind this summary, explore 7-verse concordance and the renderings breakdown below.
Gloss history
Strong's 1890 vs modern scholarship
About this word
Strong's H356 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 →
- 7
- distinct verses
- The word appears in 7 distinct verses.
- 4 / 39
- OT books
- The word appears in 4 of 39 Old Testament books.
- #2,835
- by frequency
- Top 5000 most frequent Hebrew words (rank 2,835 of 8,640 Hebrew words by occurrence).
View all 7 occurrences in the concordance →
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 7 distinct verses.
- Torah (Pentateuch) 4 verses · 57%
- Prophets (Nevi'im) 3 verses · 43%
How translations render this word
Counts come from each version’s own published word-to-Strong’s tagging or interlinear alignment — an approximate guide to how each version renders this word, not a word-level alignment the data otherwise carries. Because each total is that version’s own tagged count, the per-version totals vary from one another and need not match the appearance or distinct-verse counts above. These counts may also differ from a printed concordance because Lemma counts each distinctly tagged rendering and does not collapse phrase taggings into a single head-word total. This is a fixed set of word-tagged versions (KJV, ASV, BSB, ULT) and does not change with the reading translation you choose elsewhere. Each version’s license is shown beside its name below (and on Sources).
BDB lists this Strong’s number as 3 distinct words (homographs). Each count above pools all of them and is not split by sense — see the Senses section below. A low-frequency rendering may belong to a different one of those words, not the primary meaning.
- King James Version†: Elon 7×
- American Standard Version†: Elon 7×
- Berean Standard Bible†: Elon 7×
- unfoldingWord Literal Text†: Elon 7×
King James Version Public Domain
Renders H356 across 7† tagged occurrences — most commonly:
American Standard Version Public Domain
Renders H356 across 7† tagged occurrences — most commonly:
Berean Standard Bible Public Domain
Renders H356 across 7† tagged occurrences — most commonly:
unfoldingWord Literal Text CC BY-SA 4.0
Renders H356 across 7† tagged occurrences — most commonly:
Senses in the full BDB
What do BDB’s symbols mean?
BDB uses these scholarly abbreviations:
| Symbol | Meaning |
|---|---|
| 𝔊 | the Septuagint (the ancient Greek translation, LXX) |
| 𝔙 | the Vulgate (the Latin translation) |
| 𝔖 | the Syriac version (the Peshitta) |
| 𝔗 | the Targum (the Aramaic translation) |
| ψ | the Psalms |
| √ | root (the underlying root or stem) |
| ‖ | parallel passage (a synonymous or contrasted parallel) |
| † | the dagger: every passage where the word occurs is cited |
The 4 senses and sub-senses the full Brown-Driver-Briggs lexicon distinguishes for this word, in lexicon order (not ranked by frequency), with BDB’s own verbatim wording and sub-sense lettering. Shown in Hebrew script with BDB’s own scholarly abbreviations. The condensed entry is in the Lexicon Entry tab. See also the Forms in the corpus table below.
אילון I [f.] terebinth (= אֵלָה)
אילון II m. (= id. cf. אֵלָה n.pr.)
- 1. a son of Zebulun Gn 46:14 Nu 26:26. e.g. Genesis 46:14
- 2. אֵילֹן Gn 26:34; אֵילוֹן 36:2 a Hittite, father-in-law of Esau. e.g. Genesis 26:34
- 3. אֵילוֹן Ju 12:11, 12 a judge of Isr., of tribe of Zeb. e.g. Judges 12:11
- 4. n.pr.loc. אֵילוֹן Jos 19:43 a town of Dan; so 1 K 4:9 (where read א׳ וּבֵית ח׳ Th Klo). e.g. Joshua 19:43
Senses from the full Brown-Driver-Briggs lexicon (Brown, Driver, Briggs; Oxford 1906 — public domain), digitized via Sefaria, supplemented by the OpenScriptures HebrewLexicon (CC BY 4.0). Full attribution on Sources.
Word origin
I. n.[f.] terebinth (= אֵלָה)—א׳ cstr. Gn 12:6 + 4 times; pl. cstr. אֵלוֹנֵי Gn 13:18 + 3 times—terebinth (or other tall tree, cf. infr. on 1 S 10:3; Ju 4:5), marking shrine, & hence used in topogr. designations; א׳ מוֹרֶה (teacher’s terebinth) Gn 12:6 (v. Di) so Dt 11:30; א׳ מְעוֹנְנִים (conjurors’ tereb.) Ju 9:37; distinguished by owner or ruler א׳ מַמְרֵא Gn 13:18; 14:13; 18:1; by neighbouring town (ב)צענים Ju 4:11; cf. א׳ בְּצַעֲנַנִּים Jos 19:33 (edd. אַלּוֹן, but v. Norzi Baer Di); אֵ׳ מֻצָּב אֲשֶׁר בִּשְׁכֶם Ju 9:6 (cf. אֵלָה Gn 35:4); א׳ תָּבוֹר 1 S 10:3 read א׳ דְּבוֹרָה (& cf. אַלּוֹן בָּכוּת Gn 35:8, & תֹּמֶר דְּבוֹרָה Ju 4:5) cf. EwGesch. iii. 31 Th Di Gn 35:8 (v. also sub אַלּוֹן).
II. n.pr.m. (= id. cf. אֵלָה n.pr.)
— Brown-Driver-Briggs (Oxford 1906, public domain), digitized via Sefaria, supplemented by the OpenScriptures HebrewLexicon (CC BY 4.0). See Sources.
Derived from איל (ʼayil) (H352) — ram.
Forms in the corpus
The 7 distinct written forms H356 takes in the Hebrew Bible, most frequent first — each parse links to that state’s occurrences in the concordance. Hebrew forms include their vowel points and cantillation, so a single lemma takes many written forms.
| Form | Parsing | Example | Uses |
|---|---|---|---|
| אֵיל֖וֹן | Noun, Proper | Judges 12:11 | 1 |
| אֵילֹ֖ן | Noun, Proper | Genesis 26:34 | 1 |
| אֵילוֹן֙ | Noun, Proper | Genesis 36:2 | 1 |
| אֵל֣וֹן | Noun, Proper | Judges 12:12 | 1 |
| וְ/אֵיל֥וֹן | Noun, Proper | Joshua 19:43 | 1 |
| וְ/אֵל֖וֹן | Noun, Proper | Genesis 46:14 | 1 |
| לְ/אֵל֕וֹן | Noun, Proper | Numbers 26:26 | 1 |
Same root — word family
Other BDB entries built from the same root as H356, 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.
Derives from
Shares the same root
- איל ʼĕyâl H353 strength
- איל ʼayâl H354 stag
- אילם ʼêylâm H361 porch
- אילן ʼîylân H363 tree
- אלה ʼêlâh H424 terebinth
- אלון ʼêlôwn H436 oak
Proper names from this root
People and places named from this root — a name, not an additional meaning of the word.
- אילות ʼÊylôwth H359 Elath
- אילם ʼÊylim H362 Elim
- איל פארן ʼÊyl Pâʼrân H364 El-paran
- אל ʼêl H410 God
- אילון בית חנן ʼÊylôwn Bêyth Chânân H358 Elon Beth-hanan
Compare all same-root words → Showing 4 of 13 — not the complete family. 5 of the same-root words are proper names (people or places). They share a root, not necessarily a meaning.
Bible dictionary
Public-domain dictionary articles matched to this entry by name (Elon). 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
Oak. (1.) A city of Dan (Josh. 19:43). (2.) A Hittite, father of Bashemath, Esau's wife (Gen. 26:34). (3.) One of the sons of Zebulun (Gen. 46:14). (4.) The eleventh of the Hebrew judges. He held office for ten years (Judg. 12:11, 12). He is called the Zebulonite.
Smith's Bible Dictionary · William Smith, 1863
(an oak).
+ A Hittite, whose daughter was one of Esau's wives. (Genesis 26:34; 36:2) (B.C. 1797.) + The second of the three sons attributed to Zebulun, (Genesis 46:14; Numbers 26:26) and the founder of the family of the Elonites. (B.C. 1695.) + Elon the Zebulonite, who judged Israel for ten years, and was buried in Aijalon in Zebulun. (Judges 12:11,12) (B.C. 1174-1164). + On of the towns in the border of the tribe of Dan. (Joshua 19:43)
Hitchcock's Bible Names Dictionary · Roswell D. Hitchcock, 1869
oak; grove; strong
Classic public-domain reference works; full attribution on Sources.
Septuagint verse parallels
This word appears in 7 verses that also exist in the Greek Old Testament (Septuagint), out of the 7 Hebrew verses it occurs in. You can read those verses in Greek by switching the Old Testament edition to the Septuagint.
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