אֶלְתּוֹלַד
Eltolad
BDB lists 2 entries for ‘Eltolad’ 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 H513 appears — 2 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.
Joshua 2 verses
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, אלתולד (ʼEltôwlad) means “Eltolad.” A scarce word — 2 verses in all of the Hebrew Bible. Its uses cluster heavily in Joshua (100% of all occurrences). First canonically at Joshua 15:30, it enters the text early. Each statement above links to its evidence; the full detail follows below.
Gloss history
Strong's 1890 vs modern scholarship
About this word
Strong's H513 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 →
- 2
- distinct verses
- The word appears in 2 distinct verses.
- 1 / 39
- OT books
- The word appears in 1 of 39 Old Testament books.
- #4,807
- by frequency
- Top 5000 most frequent Hebrew words (rank 4,807 of 8,640 Hebrew words by occurrence).
View all 2 occurrences in the concordance →
Most concentrated in
- Joshua 2 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 2 distinct verses.
- Prophets (Nevi'im) 2 verses · 100%
How translations render this word
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- King James Version: Eltolad 2×
- American Standard Version: Eltolad 2×
- Berean Standard Bible: Eltolad 2×
- unfoldingWord Literal Text: Eltolad 2×
King James Version Public Domain
Renders H513 across 2 tagged occurrences — most commonly:
American Standard Version Public Domain
Renders H513 across 2 tagged occurrences — most commonly:
Berean Standard Bible Public Domain
Renders H513 across 2 tagged occurrences — most commonly:
unfoldingWord Literal Text CC BY-SA 4.0
Renders H513 across 2 tagged occurrences — 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.
- Eltolad = "God's generations"
- a city in southern Judah
Word origin
אֶלְתּוֹלַד n.pr.loc. city in southern Judah
— Brown-Driver-Briggs (Oxford 1906, public domain), digitized via Sefaria, supplemented by the OpenScriptures HebrewLexicon (CC BY 4.0). See Sources.
Derived from אל (ʼêl) (H410) — God.
Same root — word family
Other BDB entries built from the same root as H513, 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.
- אל אלהי ישראל ʼÊl ʼĕlôhêy Yisrâʼêl H415 Elelohe-israel
- אל ביתאל ʼÊl Bêyth-ʼÊl H416 El-beth-el
- אלדד ʼEldâd H419 Eldad
- אלדעה ʼEldâʻâh H420 Eldaah
- אלוה ʼĕlôwahh H433 God
- אלזבד ʼElzâbâd H443 Elzabad
- אלחנן ʼElchânân H445 Elhanan
- אליאב ʼĔlîyʼâb H446 Eliab
- אליאל ʼĔlîyʼêl H447 Eliel
- אליאתה ʼĔlîyʼâthâh H448 Eliathah
- אלידע ʼElyâdâʻ H450 Eliada
- אליה ʼÊlîyâh H452 Elijah
- אליהו ʼĔlîyhûw H453 Elihu
- אליחבא ʼElyachbâʼ H455 Eliahba
- אליחרף ʼĔlîychôreph H456 Elihoreph
- אלימלך ʼĔlîymelek H458 Elimelech
- אליסף ʼElyâçâph H460 Eliasaph
- אליעזר ʼĔlîyʻezer H461 Eliezer
- אליעם ʼĔlîyʻâm H463 Eliam
- אליפז ʼĔlîyphaz H464 Eliphaz
- אליפל ʼĔlîyphâl H465 Eliphal
- אליפלהו ʼĔlîyphᵉlêhûw H466 Elipheleh
- אליפלט ʼĔlîypheleṭ H467 Eliphelet
- אליצור ʼĔlîytsûwr H468 Elizur
+24 more proper names from this root (not shown).
Compare all same-root words → Showing 4 of 51 — not the complete family. 49 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 (Eltolad). A biblical name can be shared by more than one person or place, so an article may treat several.
Smith's Bible Dictionary · William Smith, 1863
(God's kindred), one of the cities in the south of Judah, (Joshua 15:30) allotted to Simeon, (Joshua 19:4) and in possession of that tribe until the time of David. (1 Chronicles 4:29)
Hitchcock's Bible Names Dictionary · Roswell D. Hitchcock, 1869
the generation of God
Classic public-domain reference works; full attribution on Sources.
Septuagint verse parallels
This word appears in 2 verses that also exist in the Greek Old Testament (Septuagint), out of the 2 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.
