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title: חֵלֹן — Helon · The Tanakh dictionary
description: חֵלֹן (2497), a word of Biblical Hebrew, used 5 times: Helon. BDB 1906: n.pr.m. With 2 verses in Hebrew, word for word and JPS 1917.
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# חֵלֹן

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«חֵלֹן» in the Tanakh dictionary: **Helon** — how often it is used, MACULA's glosses, its meanings in the printed dictionaries and why they were chosen, and 2 verses in layers.

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**Used:** 5 times · **Key:** 2497 · **BDB:** חֵלֹן

### Glosses

of.Helon (5)

### Meaning (OSHB)

Helon [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1495/2497/#m1)

### Meaning (BDB 1906)

n.pr.m. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1495/2497/#m2)

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**The whole BDB entry:** n.pr.m. a man of Zebulon Nu 1:9; 2:7; 7:24, 29; 10:16 (𝔊 Χαιλων, 𝔊L Χελων).

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Why these entries: BDB: headword, part of speech agrees, 5 of its verses cited, 0 words shared with the glosses, lists its Strong's number (5 candidates); OSHB: headword, part of speech agrees, 0 words shared with the BDB entry, 1 with the glosses (4 candidates)

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every English meaning of «חֵלֹן» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1495/2497/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.

### In the verses

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[Numbers 1:9](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/NUM.1.9/)

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לִזְבוּלֻ֕ן אֱלִיאָ֖ב בֶּן־חֵלֹֽן׃

*Word for word:* for Zebulun Eliab the.son of.Helon

*JPS 1917:* Of Zebulun, Eliab the son of Helon.

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[Numbers 10:16](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/NUM.10.16/)

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וְעַ֨ל־צְבָ֔א מַטֵּ֖ה בְּנֵ֣י זְבוּלֻ֑ן אֱלִיאָ֖ב בֶּן־חֵלֽוֹן׃

*Word for word:* and.\[was\] over the.military.group of.the.tribe of.the.descendants of.Zebulun Eliab the.son of.Helon

*JPS 1917:* And over the host of the tribe of the children of Zebulun was Eliab the son of Helon.

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