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title: אֵילֹון — Elon · The Tanakh dictionary
description: אֵילֹון (lemma:אֵילֹון), a word of Biblical Hebrew, used 1 times: Elon. BDB 1906: n.pr.m. n.pr.loc. With 1 verse in Hebrew, word for word and JPS 1917.
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# אֵילֹון

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«אֵילֹון» in the Tanakh dictionary: **Elon** — how often it is used, MACULA's glosses, its meanings in the printed dictionaries and why they were chosen, and 1 verse in layers.

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**Used:** 1 times · **Key:** lemma:אֵילֹון · **BDB:** אֵלוֹן²

### Glosses

Elon (1)

### Meaning (OSHB)

Elon [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1488/lemma_3a_5d0_5b5_5d9_5dc_5b9_5d5_5df/#m1)

### Meaning (BDB 1906)

n.pr.m. n.pr.loc. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1488/lemma_3a_5d0_5b5_5d9_5dc_5b9_5d5_5df/#m2)

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**The whole BDB entry:** n.pr.m. (= id. cf. אֵלָה n.pr.) a son of Zebulun Gn 46:14 Nu 26:26. אֵילֹן Gn 26:34; אֵילוֹן 36:2 a Hittite, father-in-law of Esau. אֵילוֹן Ju 12:11, 12 a judge of Isr., of tribe of Zeb. n.pr.loc. אֵילוֹן Jos 19:43 a town of Dan; so 1 K 4:9 (where read א׳ וּבֵית ח׳ Th Klo).

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Why these entries: BDB: same consonants, part of speech agrees, 1 of its verses cited, 0 words shared with the glosses (5 candidates); OSHB: same consonants, part of speech agrees, 0 words shared with the BDB entry, 1 with the glosses (5 candidates)

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every English meaning of «אֵילֹון» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1488/lemma_3a_5d0_5b5_5d9_5dc_5b9_5d5_5df/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.

### In the verses

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[Joshua 19:43](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/JOS.19.43/)

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וְאֵיל֥וֹן וְתִמְנָ֖תָה וְעֶקְרֽוֹן׃

*Word for word:* and Elon and (to) Timnah and Ekron

*JPS 1917:* and Elon, and Timnah, and Ekron;

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