עִיּוֹן
Ijon
BDB lists 2 entries for ‘Ijon’ fuller range ↓
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 H5859 appears — 3 distinct verses across 3 books. 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 Kings 1 verse
2 Kings 1 verse
2 Chronicles 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.
At its core, עיון (ʻÎyôwn) means “Ijon.” With only 3 verses it sits in the long tail of Hebrew Bible vocabulary. The word gravitates to 1 Kings (33%), then 2 Kings and 2 Chronicles. First canonically at 1 Kings 15:20, it enters the text early. Dig into 3-verse concordance and the renderings breakdown below.
Gloss history
Strong's 1890 vs modern scholarship
About this word
Strong's H5859 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 →
- 3
- distinct verses
- The word appears in 3 distinct verses.
- 3 / 39
- OT books
- The word appears in 3 of 39 Old Testament books.
- #4,179
- by frequency
- Top 5000 most frequent Hebrew words (rank 4,179 of 8,640 Hebrew words by occurrence).
View all 3 occurrences in the concordance →
Most concentrated in
- 1 Kings 1 verse 33%
- 2 Kings 1 verse 33%
- 2 Chronicles 1 verse 33%
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 3 distinct verses.
- Prophets (Nevi'im) 2 verses · 67%
- Writings (Ketuvim) 1 verse · 33%
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: Ijon 3×
- American Standard Version: Ijon 3×
- Berean Standard Bible: Ijon 3×
- unfoldingWord Literal Text: Ijon 3×
King James Version Public Domain
Renders H5859 across 3 tagged occurrences — most commonly:
American Standard Version Public Domain
Renders H5859 across 3 tagged occurrences — most commonly:
Berean Standard Bible Public Domain
Renders H5859 across 3 tagged occurrences — most commonly:
unfoldingWord Literal Text CC BY-SA 4.0
Renders H5859 across 3 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.
- Ijon = "a ruin"
- a place in the north of Palestine belonging to the tribe of Naphtali
Word origin
n.pr.loc. Αιν, in Naphtali;—1 K 15:20 = 2 Ch 16:4; 2 K 15:29 (on 2 S 24:6 v. דָּן p. 193 a supr.). Perhaps = Tell Dibbin, on the platau Merj ʿayyûn BuhlGeogr. 11, 110), between the Lîṭânî and the Ḥāsbânî (Id. ib. 237 f.).
— Brown-Driver-Briggs (Oxford 1906, public domain), digitized via Sefaria, supplemented by the OpenScriptures HebrewLexicon (CC BY 4.0). See Sources.
Derived from עי (ʻîy) (H5856) — ruin.
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.
עִיּוּן
- (עוּן) speculation, meditation, deliberation; ע׳ תפלה a) calculation of the effects of prayer, expectation of the granting of one’s prayer as a due claim (v. עוּןPi.). Ber. 55ᵃ שלשה דברים … וע׳ ת׳ וכ׳ three things cause a man’s record of sins to be called up: a threatening wall, calculation on prayer &c., v. דִּין II. B. Bath. 164ᵇ שלש עבירות … וע׳ ת׳ וכ׳ three sins man cannot escape every day: impure thought, calculation on prayer &c.; [oth. opin. the lack of devotion in prayer, v. Tosaf. a. l.].—b) devotion. Sabb. 127ᵃ. Ib. 118ᵇ קיימית ע׳ ת׳ I fulfilled (guarded the duty of) devotion in my prayers. B. Bath. l. c., v. supra.
עִיּוֹן
- (b. h.) pr. n. pl. ʿIyon (ʿAyûn), a town in the north of Palestine. Y. Dem. II, 22ᵈ top. Tosef. Shebi. IV, 11; a. e., v. נְקִיפְתָּא.
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 2 distinct written forms H5859 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| עִיּ֣וֹן | Noun, Proper | 1 Kings 15:20 | 2 |
| עִיּ֡וֹן | Noun, Proper | 2 Kings 15:29 | 1 |
Same root — word family
Other BDB entries built from the same root as H5859, 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
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. 3 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 (Ijon). 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 ruin, a city of Naphtali, captured by Ben-hadad of Syria at the instance of Asa (1 Kings 15:20), and afterwards by Tiglath-pileser of Assyria (2 Kings 15:29) in the reign of Pekah; now el-Khiam.
Smith's Bible Dictionary · William Smith, 1863
(a ruin), a town in the north of Palestine, belonging to the tribe of Naphtali. It was taken and plundered by the captains of Ben-hadad, (1 Kings 15:20; 2 Chronicles 16:4) and a second time by Tiglath-pileser. (2 Kings 16:29) It was situated a few miles northwest of the site of Dan, in a fertile and beautiful little plain called Merj' Ayun .
Hitchcock's Bible Names Dictionary · Roswell D. Hitchcock, 1869
look; eye; fountain
Classic public-domain reference works; full attribution on Sources.
Septuagint verse parallels
This word appears in 3 verses that also exist in the Greek Old Testament (Septuagint), out of the 3 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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