אִילָן
tree
Full lexicon entry — Brown-Driver-Briggs (BDB)
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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
- Common
- A common noun — a general class of person, place, or thing (“king,” “city,” “water”), not a specific name.
State
- Absolute
- The independent form of a noun, not bound to a following word.
Gender
- Masculine
- Grammatically masculine.
Number
- Singular
- One.
Grammatical forms
- Particle, Definite Article 5 times (83%)
- Noun, Common, Masculine, Singular, Absolute 1 time (17%)
Parsed forms decoded from the imported morphology (morphhb / Westminster Leningrad Codex — WLC text public domain, morphhb tagging CC BY 4.0), counted across 6 parsed occurrences — not distinct verses.
Every verse where H363 appears — 6 distinct verses 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.
Daniel 6 verses
- Daniel 4:10 אִילָ֛ן n c ms Thus were the visions of my head on my bed: I saw, and, behold, a tree in the midst of the earth; and the height of it was great.
- Daniel 4:11 אִֽילָנָ֖/א n c ms det + ptcl def.art The tree grew, and was strong, and the height of it reached to the sky, and the sight of it to the end of all the earth.
- Daniel 4:14 אִֽילָנָ/א֙ n c ms det + ptcl def.art He cried aloud, and said thus, Hew down the tree, and cut off its branches, shake off its leaves, and scatter its fruit: let the animals get away from under it, and the fowls from its branches.
- Daniel 4:20 אִֽילָנָ/א֙ n c ms det + ptcl def.art The tree that you saw, which grew, and was strong, whose height reached to the sky, and the sight of it to all the earth;
- Daniel 4:23 אִֽילָנָ֜/א n c ms det + ptcl def.art Whereas the king saw a watcher and a holy one coming down from the sky, and saying, Hew down the tree, and destroy it; nevertheless leave the stump of the roots of it in the earth, even with a band of iron and brass, in the tender grass of the field, and let it be wet with the dew of the sky: and let his portion be with the animals of the field, until seven times pass over him;
- Daniel 4:26 אִֽילָנָ֔/א n c ms det + ptcl def.art Whereas they commanded to leave the stump of the roots of the tree; your kingdom shall be sure to you, after that you shall have known that the heavens do rule.
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.
At its core, אילן (ʼîylân) means “tree.” The word gravitates to Daniel (100%). It turns up in 6 verses across 1 book, an uncommon footprint. It first appears in Daniel 4:10. It clusters with איל, איל and איל under a shared root. Dig into 6-verse concordance and the renderings breakdown below.
Gloss history
Strong's 1890 vs modern scholarship
About this word
Strong's H363 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 →
- 6
- distinct verses
- The word appears in 6 distinct verses.
- 1 / 39
- OT books
- The word appears in 1 of 39 Old Testament books.
- #3,040
- by frequency
- Top 5000 most frequent Hebrew words (rank 3,040 of 8,640 Hebrew words by occurrence).
View all 6 occurrences in the concordance →
Most concentrated in
- Daniel 6 verses 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 6 distinct verses.
- Writings (Ketuvim) 6 verses · 100%
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).
- King James Version: Tree 6×
- American Standard Version: Tree 5×
- Berean Standard Bible: Tree 6×
- unfoldingWord Literal Text: Tree 6×
King James Version Public Domain
Renders H363 across 6 tagged occurrences — most commonly:
American Standard Version Public Domain
Renders H363 across 6 tagged occurrences — most commonly:
Plus 1 rendering that appears only once — usually multi-word phrases or single function words the recovered tagging swept in, not distinct renderings.
Berean Standard Bible Public Domain
Renders H363 across 6 tagged occurrences — most commonly:
unfoldingWord Literal Text CC BY-SA 4.0
Renders H363 across 6 tagged occurrences — most commonly:
Senses in BDB
The 1 sense 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.
- tree
Word origin
Derived from איל (ʼayil) (H352) — ram.
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.
אִילָּן
- (cmp. b. h. אֵלוֹן oak, v. אֵלָה) tree. Shebi. I, 1, a. e. שדה הא׳ a field containing at least three trees within a distance of a S’ah (v. סְאָה). Ib. 3 א׳ סרק bearing no edible fruit, opp. א׳ מאכל.—Pes. 112ᵃ (prov.) אם בקשת וכ׳ if you desire to be strangled, be hanged on a large tree, (if you must refer to an authority, select a good one).—Pl. אִילָּנוֹת, const. אִילָּנֵי. Shebi. I, 2. Gen. R. s. 16; a. fr.
אִילַן
- Targ. Gen. I, 11; a. fr.—Ab. Zar. 50ᵇ, v. ברי ch.—Pl. אִילָנִין, אִילָנַיָּיא, אִילָנַיָּא, אִילָנֵי, אִלָ׳. Targ. Gen. II, 5; a. fr.—Lev. R. s. 12 מתקריין וכ׳ (insert פיריהון) א׳ fruits are named after the trees. B. Bath. 16ᵇ; a. fr.—Lev. R. s. 5 א׳ דסדום, v. אמבוניא.—[קלא א׳, תלא א׳, v. s. קְלָא a. תְּלָא respectively.]
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.
Forms in the corpus
The 5 distinct written forms H363 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| אִֽילָנָ/א֙ | Particle, Definite Article | Daniel 4:14 | 2 |
| אִֽילָנָ֔/א | Particle, Definite Article | Daniel 4:26 | 1 |
| אִֽילָנָ֖/א | Particle, Definite Article | Daniel 4:11 | 1 |
| אִֽילָנָ֜/א | Particle, Definite Article | Daniel 4:23 | 1 |
| אִילָ֛ן | Noun, Common, Masculine, Singular, Absolute | Daniel 4:10 | 1 |
Same root — word family
Other BDB entries built from the same root as H363, 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
- 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.
- אילון ʼÊylôwn H356 Elon
- אילות ʼÊylôwth H359 Elath
- אילם ʼÊylim H362 Elim
- איל פארן ʼÊyl Pâʼrân H364 El-paran
- אל ʼêl H410 God
Compare all same-root words → Showing 4 of 12 — not the complete family. 5 of the same-root words are proper names (people or places). They share a root, not necessarily a meaning.
Septuagint verse parallels
This word appears in 6 verses that also exist in the Greek Old Testament (Septuagint), out of the 6 Hebrew verses it occurs in. You can read those verses in Greek by switching the Old Testament edition to the Septuagint.
Read these verses in the Septuagint
This is a verse-level parallel only — the same verses exist in both the Hebrew and Greek Old Testaments. No word-level Hebrew↔Greek correspondence is claimed: the data carries no such alignment, so no Greek word is shown as this Hebrew word’s translation. Coverage is not total — the Septuagint omits the deuterocanon and renumbers the Psalms, so some Hebrew verses have no direct Greek parallel.
