Hebrew noun (masculine) · H436
אֵלוֹן
elonay-lone'
(Diviners') Oak
9 uses in the Hebrew text, one for each word STEP Bible has tagged with this key
Concordance spelling: ʼêlôwn
Word page · Part of the concordance, one page for every word of the Hebrew and Greek text. Strong's H436is this word's number in James Strong's 1890 index of the King James Bible.
- 4 of 39Old Testament books
- 6spellings
The definition in full
Strong's key (1890) · H436
an oak or other strong tree
The King James renders it: plain. See also H356 (אֵילוֹן).
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
elon is rendered "(Diviners') Oak". It stands 9 times in the Hebrew text, across four books.
- Four of the uses stand in Genesis, more than in any other book.
- Its first use in canonical order opens the ledger below.Genesis 12:6Abram 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.
- The Greek text spells it six different ways.
The first use
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 12:6אֵל֣וֹן
The first use, in the order of the Old Testament's books.
Where the word stands
Four of the word's nine uses are in Genesis.
What the word means
Each meaning, and the words it is translated by
How the Greek text is glossed, word by word
- at great trees of3
- great tree of3
- great tree2
- great trees of1
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.
| Word | Written | Meaning | Uses |
|---|---|---|---|
| אֵלוֹנִי | Eloni | Elonite | Uses1 |
All 9, in canonical order
Every use, in order
Every use, grouped by book, with its verse.
6 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
- אֵל֥וֹן3
- אֵל֣וֹן2
- אֵלוֹנֵ֥י1
- בְּאֵלֹנֵ֥י1
- בְּאֵֽלֹנֵ֜י1
- בְּאֵלֹנֵ֖י1
The grammar of each form
- noun · masculine singular · in construct (“…of”)4HNcmsc
- preposition + noun · masculine plural · in construct (“…of”)3HR/Ncmpc
- noun · masculine plural · in construct (“…of”)1HNcmpc
- noun · masculine singular1HNcmsa
Genesis
four uses
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.
- אֵל֣וֹןʾelonnoun · masculine singular · in construct (“…of”)tagged: great tree of
So Abram moved his tent and went to live near the Oaks of Mamre at Hebron, where he built an altar to the LORD.
- בְּאֵלֹנֵ֥יbeeloneipreposition + noun · masculine plural · in construct (“…of”)tagged: at great trees of
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.
- בְּאֵֽלֹנֵ֜יbeeloneipreposition + noun · masculine plural · in construct (“…of”)tagged: at great trees of
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.
- בְּאֵלֹנֵ֖יbeeloneipreposition + noun · masculine plural · in construct (“…of”)tagged: at great trees of
Deuteronomy
one use
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?
- אֵלוֹנֵ֥יʾeloneinoun · masculine plural · in construct (“…of”)tagged: great trees of
Judges
three uses
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.
- אֵל֥וֹןʾelonnoun · masculine singulartagged: great tree
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.
- אֵל֥וֹןʾelonnoun · masculine singular · in construct (“…of”)tagged: great tree
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.”
- אֵל֥וֹןʾelonnoun · masculine singular · in construct (“…of”)tagged: great tree of
1 Samuel
one use
Then you will go on from there until you come to the Oak of Tabor. Three men going up to God at Bethel will meet you there, one carrying three young goats, another carrying three loaves of bread, and another carrying a skin of wine.
- אֵל֣וֹןʾelonnoun · masculine singular · in construct (“…of”)tagged: great tree of
The letters
Gematria 87· 737 mispar gadol
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.
The family is read from the lexicon by the stem the two words share, with the accents off, and a person or a place named on the stem is left out.