H436 - אֵלוֹן (ʼêlôwn)

H436 אֵלוֹן (ʼêlôwn) ay-lone'

Hebrew

Noun (Masculine, Hebrew)

Quick Definition

(Diviners') Oak

Strong's Definition

an oak or other strong tree

Derivation: prolonged from H352 (אַיִל);

KJV Usage: plain. See also H356 (אֵילוֹן).

TWOT Reference: 45i

Outline of Biblical Usage

1) tree, great tree, terebinth

2) plain

STEPBible — Tyndale Abridged Hebrew Lexicon

This name means tree, great tree, terebinth Combined with a.nan (עָנַן "Diviners'" H6049)

Brown-Driver-Briggs Hebrew Lexicon

אֵלוֹן êlôn BDB Definition: 1) tree, great tree, terebinth 2) plain Part of Speech: noun masculine A Related Word by BDB/Strongs Number: prolonged from H352 Same Word by TWOT Number: 45i Total KJV Occurrences: 9

Bible Occurrences (9)

12:6 13:18 14:13 18:1

11:30

4:11 9:6 9:37

10:3

Genesis 12:6

Abram traveled through the land as far as the site of the Oak of Moreh at Shechem. And at that time the Canaanites were in the land.

Genesis 13:18

So Abram moved his tent and went to live near the Oaks of Mamre at Hebron, where he built an altar to the LORD.

Genesis 14:13

Then an escapee came and reported [this] to Abram the Hebrew. Now [Abram] was living near the Oaks of Mamre the Amorite, a brother of Eshcol [and] Aner, all of whom were bound by treaty to Abram.

Genesis 18:1

Then the LORD appeared to [Abraham] by the Oaks of Mamre in the heat of the day, while he was sitting at the entrance of his tent.

Deuteronomy 11:30

Are not these mountains across the Jordan, west of the road toward the sunset, in the land of the Canaanites who live in the Arabah opposite Gilgal near the Oak of Moreh?

Judges 4:11

Now Heber the Kenite had moved away from the Kenites, the descendants of Hobab the father-in-law of Moses, and had pitched his tent by the great tree of Zaanannim, which was near Kedesh.

Judges 9:6

Then all the leaders of Shechem and... Beth-millo gathered beside the oak at the pillar in Shechem and proceeded to make Abimelech [their] king.

Judges 9:37

Then Gaal spoke up... again..., Look, people are coming down from the center of the land, and one company is coming by way of the Diviners’ Oak.