H424 - אֵלָה (ʼêlâh)

H424 אֵלָה (ʼêlâh) ay-law'

Hebrew

Noun (Feminine, Hebrew)

Quick Definition

oak

Strong's Definition

an oak or other strong tree

Derivation: feminine of H352 (אַיִל);

KJV Usage: elm, oak, teil-tree.

TWOT Reference: 45h

Outline of Biblical Usage

1) terebinth, terebinth tree

2) valley where David killed Goliath

Septuagint (LXX) Greek Equivalents

This Hebrew word is translated by the following Greek words in the Septuagint:

G1186

STEPBible — Tyndale Abridged Hebrew Lexicon

1) terebinth, terebinth tree 2) valley where David killed Goliath

Brown-Driver-Briggs Hebrew Lexicon

אֵלָה êlâh BDB Definition: 1) terebinth, terebinth tree 2) valley where David killed Goliath Part of Speech: noun feminine A Related Word by BDB/Strongs Number: from H352 Same Word by TWOT Number: 45h Total KJV Occurrences: 13

Bible Occurrences (12)

35:4

6:11 6:19

18:9 18:10 18:14

13:14

10:12

1:30 6:13

6:13

4:13

Genesis 35:4

So they gave... Jacob all their... foreign gods and [all their] earrings -, and Jacob buried them under the oak near Shechem.

Judges 6:11

Then the angel of the LORD came and sat down under the oak in Ophrah that belonged to Joash the Abiezrite, where his son Gideon was threshing wheat in a winepress to hide it from the Midianites.

Judges 6:19

So Gideon went in and prepared a young goat... and unleavened bread and an ephah of flour. He placed the meat in a basket and the broth... in a pot and brought them out to present to Him under the oak.

2 Samuel 18:9

Now Absalom... was riding on his mule when he met the servants of David, and as the mule went under the thick branches of a large oak, Absalom’s head was caught fast in the tree. The mule under him kept going, so that he was suspended in midair..........

2 Samuel 18:10

When one of the men saw this, he told Joab -, I just saw Absalom hanging in an oak tree!

2 Samuel 18:14

But Joab declared, I am not going to wait like this with you! And he took three spears in his hand and thrust them through the heart of Absalom while he was still alive... in the oak tree.

1 Kings 13:14

and went after the man of God. He found him sitting under an oak tree and asked..., Are you the man of God who came from Judah? I [am], he replied.

1 Chronicles 10:12

all their men of valor set out and retrieved the bodies of Saul and his sons and brought them to Jabesh. And they buried their bones under the oak in Jabesh and fasted seven days.