Hebrew noun (masculine) · H437
אַלּוֹן
allonal-lone'
oak
8 uses in the Hebrew text, one for each word STEP Bible has tagged with this key
Concordance spelling: ʼallôwn
Word page · Part of the concordance, one page for every word of the Hebrew and Greek text. Strong's H437is this word's number in James Strong's 1890 index of the King James Bible.
- 6 of 39Old Testament books
- 8spellings
The definition in full
Strong's key (1890) · H437
{an oak or other strong tree}
The King James renders it: oak.
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
allon is rendered "oak". It stands 8 times in the Hebrew text, across six books.
- Three of the uses stand in Isaiah, more than in any other book.
- Its first use in canonical order opens the ledger below.Genesis 35:8Now Deborah, Rebekah’s nurse, died and was buried under the oak below Bethel. So Jacob named it Allon-bachuth.
- The Greek text spells it eight different ways.
The first use
Now Deborah, Rebekah’s nurse, died and was buried under the oak below Bethel. So Jacob named it Allon-bachuth.
Genesis 35:8הָֽאַלּ֑וֹן
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
- and an oak1
- and like the oak1
- like the oaks1
- O oaks of1
- oak1
- oaks1
- oaks of1
- the oak1
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| אַלּוּף | alluph | tame | Uses69 |
Other numbers on this spelling
Strong gave these words the same spelling and different numbers, so the site counts and defines them apart.
All 8, in canonical order
Every use, in order
Every use, grouped by book, with its verse.
8 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
- אַלּ֧וֹן1
- אַלּוֹנֵ֥י1
- אַלּוֹנֵ֣י1
- אַלּוֹנִים֙1
- הָֽאַלּ֑וֹן1
- וְאַלּ֔וֹן1
- וְכָאַלּ֗וֹן1
- כָּֽאַלּוֹנִ֑ים1
The grammar of each form
- noun · masculine plural · in construct (“…of”)2HNcmpc
- conjunction (“and”) + noun · masculine singular1HC/Ncmsa
- conjunction (“and”) + preposition with the article + noun · masculine singular1HC/Rd/Ncmsa
- noun · masculine plural1HNcmpa
- noun · masculine singular1HNcmsa
- preposition with the article + noun · masculine plural1HRd/Ncmpa
- the definite article (“the”) + noun · masculine singular1HTd/Ncmsa
Genesis
one use
Now Deborah, Rebekah’s nurse, died and was buried under the oak below Bethel. So Jacob named it Allon-bachuth.
- הָֽאַלּ֑וֹןhaalonthe definite article (“the”) + noun · masculine singulartagged: the oak
Isaiah
three uses
against all the cedars of Lebanon, lofty and lifted up, against all the oaks of Bashan,
- אַלּוֹנֵ֥יʾaloneinoun · masculine plural · in construct (“…of”)tagged: oaks of
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.”
- וְכָאַלּ֗וֹןvekhaalonconjunction (“and”) + preposition with the article + noun · masculine singulartagged: and like the oak
He cuts down cedars or retrieves a cypress or oak. He lets it grow strong among the trees of the forest. He plants a laurel, and the rain makes it grow.
- וְאַלּ֔וֹןvealonconjunction (“and”) + noun · masculine singulartagged: and an oak
Ezekiel
one use
Of oaks from Bashan they made your oars; of wood from the coasts of Cyprus they made your deck, inlaid with ivory.
- אַלּוֹנִים֙ʾalonimnoun · masculine pluraltagged: oaks
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.
- אַלּ֧וֹןʾalonnoun · masculine singulartagged: oak
Amos
one use
Yet it was I who destroyed the Amorite before them, though his height was like that of the cedars, and he was as strong as the oaks. Yet I destroyed his fruit above and his roots below.
- כָּֽאַלּוֹנִ֑יםkaalonimpreposition with the article + noun · masculine pluraltagged: like the oaks
Zechariah
one use
Wail, O cypress, for the cedar has fallen; the majestic trees are ruined! Wail, O oaks of Bashan, for the dense forest has been cut down!
- אַלּוֹנֵ֣יʾaloneinoun · masculine plural · in construct (“…of”)tagged: O oaks 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.