Hebrew noun (feminine) · H424
אֵלָה
elahay-law'
oak
13 uses in the Hebrew text, one for each word STEP Bible has tagged with this key
Concordance spelling: ʼêlâh
Word page · Part of the concordance, one page for every word of the Hebrew and Greek text. Strong's H424is this word's number in James Strong's 1890 index of the King James Bible.
- 8 of 39Old Testament books
- 12spellings
The definition in full
Strong's key (1890) · H424
an oak or other strong tree
The King James renders it: elm, oak, teil-tree.
James Strong, The Exhaustive Concordance of the Bible (1890), public domain. Strong indexed the King James text, and this site quotes his entry as that index.
Summary
elah is rendered "oak". It stands 13 times in the Hebrew text, across eight books.
- Four of the uses stand in 2 Samuel, more than in any other book.
- Its first use in canonical order opens the ledger below.Genesis 35:4So they gave Jacob all their foreign gods and all their earrings, and Jacob buried them under the oak near Shechem.
- The Greek text spells it twelve different ways.
The first use
So they gave Jacob all their foreign gods and all their earrings, and Jacob buried them under the oak near Shechem.
Genesis 35:4הָאֵלָ֖ה
The first use, in the order of the Old Testament's books.
Where the word stands
What the word means
Each meaning, and the words it is translated by
How the Greek text is glossed, word by word
- the oak7
- in the oak2
- and terebinth1
- like an oak1
- like the terebinth1
- terebinth1
The words built on the same word-part
Each word below begins with the same letters this one begins with. A shared word-part shows a family. It does not settle what any one of them means, so each word carries its own uses on its own page. Scholars call that shared part the stem.
Other numbers on this spelling
Strong gave these words the same spelling and different numbers, so the site counts and defines them apart.
All 13, in canonical order
Every use, in order
Every use, grouped by book, with its verse.
12 spellings and their grammar
STEP Bible tags every word of the Hebrew and Greek text with its spelling and its grammar. Both lists below count the rows printed underneath, written out in English, with the code beside each one as it was tagged.
How it is spelled
- הָאֵלָ֖ה2
- אֵלָ֣ה1
- בָאֵלָ֗ה1
- בָּאֵלָֽה׃1
- הָֽאֵלָה֙1
- הָאֵלָ֨ה1
- הָאֵלָ֑ה1
- הָאֵלָה֙1
- הָאֵלָֽה׃1
- וְאֵלָ֖ה1
- כְּאֵלָ֖ה1
- כָּאֵלָ֣ה1
The grammar of each form
- the definite article (“the”) + noun · feminine singular7HTd/Ncfsa
- preposition with the article + noun · feminine singular3HRd/Ncfsa
- conjunction (“and”) + noun · feminine singular1HC/Ncfsa
- noun · feminine singular1HNcfsa
- preposition + noun · feminine singular1HR/Ncfsa
Genesis
one use
So they gave Jacob all their foreign gods and all their earrings, and Jacob buried them under the oak near Shechem.
- הָאֵלָ֖הhaelahthe definite article (“the”) + noun · feminine singulartagged: the oak
Judges
two uses
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.
- הָֽאֵלָה֙haelahthe definite article (“the”) + noun · feminine singulartagged: the oak
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.
- הָאֵלָ֖הhaelahthe definite article (“the”) + noun · feminine singulartagged: the oak
2 Samuel
four uses
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.
- הָאֵלָ֨הhaelahthe definite article (“the”) + noun · feminine singulartagged: the oak
- בָאֵלָ֗הvaelahpreposition with the article + noun · feminine singulartagged: in the oak
When one of the men saw this, he told Joab, “I just saw Absalom hanging in an oak tree!”
- בָּאֵלָֽה׃baelahpreposition with the article + noun · feminine singulartagged: in the oak
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.
- הָאֵלָֽה׃haelahthe definite article (“the”) + noun · feminine singulartagged: the oak
1 Kings
one use
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.
- הָאֵלָ֑הhaelahthe definite article (“the”) + noun · feminine singulartagged: the oak
1 Chronicles
one use
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.
- הָאֵלָה֙haelahthe definite article (“the”) + noun · feminine singulartagged: the oak
Isaiah
two uses
For you will become like an oak whose leaves are withered, like a garden without water.
- כְּאֵלָ֖הkeelahpreposition + noun · feminine singulartagged: like an oak
And though a tenth remains in the land, it will be burned again. As the terebinth and oak leave stumps when felled, so the holy seed will be a stump in the land.”
- כָּאֵלָ֣הkaelahpreposition with the article + noun · feminine singulartagged: like the terebinth
Ezekiel
one use
Then you will know that I am the LORD, when their slain lie among their idols around their altars, on every high hill, on all the mountaintops, and under every green tree and leafy oak—the places where they offered fragrant incense to all their idols.
- אֵלָ֣הʾelahnoun · feminine singulartagged: terebinth
Hosea
one use
They sacrifice on the mountaintops and burn offerings on the hills, under oak, poplar, and terebinth, because their shade is pleasant. And so your daughters turn to prostitution and your daughters-in-law to adultery.
- וְאֵלָ֖הveelahconjunction (“and”) + noun · feminine singulartagged: and terebinth
Where it leads
How the numbers are counted
Every count on this page comes from STEP Bible's tagged Hebrew and Greek text, the same text the ledger prints. A use is counted once each time the tagging marks a word with this key.
Spellings are counted as the Greek text spells them, with the sentence's own punctuation taken off the word first, so a form that ends a clause is not counted as a second spelling.