מָלוֹן
inn
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
- 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.
- Construct
- A noun bound to a following noun in a possessive / “of” relationship (the construct chain).
Gender
- Masculine
- Grammatically masculine.
Number
- Singular
- One.
Every verse where H4411 appears in the Book of Isaiah — 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.
Isaiah
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 noun מלון centers on the idea of “inn.” Its earliest occurrence is Genesis 42:27. It turns up in 8 verses across 6 books, an uncommon footprint. The word gravitates to Genesis (25%), then Joshua and Exodus. It shares a root with לון, מלונה and תלונה. Dig into 8-verse concordance and the renderings breakdown below.
Gloss history
Strong's 1890 vs modern scholarship
About this word
Strong's H4411 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 →
- 8
- distinct verses
- The word appears in 8 distinct verses.
- 6 / 39
- OT books
- The word appears in 6 of 39 Old Testament books.
- #2,625
- by frequency
- Top 5000 most frequent Hebrew words (rank 2,625 of 8,640 Hebrew words by occurrence).
View all 8 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 8 distinct verses.
- Prophets (Nevi'im) 5 verses · 63%
- Torah (Pentateuch) 3 verses · 38%
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: Inn 3×, Lodging place 2×
- American Standard Version: Lodging-place 4×
- Berean Standard Bible: Camp 1×, Lodge 1×, Now at a lodging place 1×
- unfoldingWord Literal Text: Lodging place 5×, Lodging place of 2×
King James Version Public Domain
Renders H4411 across 8 tagged occurrences — most commonly:
Plus 3 renderings that appear only once — usually multi-word phrases or single function words the recovered tagging swept in, not distinct renderings.
American Standard Version Public Domain
Renders H4411 across 8 tagged occurrences — most commonly:
Plus 4 renderings that appear only once — usually multi-word phrases or single function words the recovered tagging swept in, not distinct renderings.
Berean Standard Bible Public Domain
Renders H4411 across 8 tagged occurrences — most commonly:
unfoldingWord Literal Text CC BY-SA 4.0
Renders H4411 across 8 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.
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.
- place of lodging, inn, khan
Word origin
n.m. lodging-place, inn, khan;—abs. מ׳ Gn 42:27 + 5 times; cstr. מְלוֹן 2 K 19:23; Je 9:1;—lodging-place, inn, khal (?) Gn 42:27; 43:21; Ex 4:24; מְ׳ אֹרְחִים Je 9:1; = camp (of Isr.) for a night, Jos 4:3 (+ לין), v 8; of Assyrians Is 10:29; fig. מְלוֹן קִצֹּה֯ 2 K 19:23, i.e. its (Lebanon’s) remotest camping-ground, hyperb. of Assyrian conquest; so read prob. in ‖ Is 37:24 for MT מְרוֹם ק׳, cf. Di Du Kit CheHpt..
— Brown-Driver-Briggs (Oxford 1906, public domain), digitized via Sefaria, supplemented by the OpenScriptures HebrewLexicon (CC BY 4.0). See Sources.
Derived from לון (lûwn) (H3885) — to lodge.
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.
מָלוֹן
- lodging. Snh. 95ᵇ צדיק … לבית מְלוֹנִי this righteous man (Jacob) has come to my lodging place; Ḥull. 91ᵇ, v. לִינָה. Midr. Prov. ch. IX שנמצא לך מ׳ טוב וכ׳ a beautiful lodging has been offered thee in the hour of thy death; a. fr.
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 7 distinct written forms H4411 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| בַּ/מָּל֑וֹן | Noun, Common, Masculine, Singular, Absolute | Exodus 4:24 | 2 |
| בַּ/מָּל֕וֹן | Noun, Common, Masculine, Singular, Absolute | Joshua 4:3 | 1 |
| הַ/מָּל֔וֹן | Noun, Common, Masculine, Singular, Absolute | Joshua 4:8 | 1 |
| הַ/מָּל֗וֹן | Noun, Common, Masculine, Singular, Absolute | Genesis 43:21 | 1 |
| מְל֣וֹן | Noun, Common, Masculine, Singular, Construct | 2 Kings 19:23 | 1 |
| מְלוֹן֙ | Noun, Common, Masculine, Singular, Construct | Jeremiah 9:2 | 1 |
| מָל֣וֹן | Noun, Common, Masculine, Singular, Absolute | Isaiah 10:29 | 1 |
Same root — word family
Other BDB entries built from the same root as H4411, 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
Proper names from this root
People and places named from this root — a name, not an additional meaning of the word.
Compare all same-root words → Showing 4 of 5 — not the complete family. 1 of the same-root words is a proper name (a person or place). They share a root, not necessarily a meaning.
Septuagint verse parallels
This word appears in 8 verses that also exist in the Greek Old Testament (Septuagint), out of the 8 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.
