alon · oak

What it means

alon (אַלּוֹן) is a Hebrew word of the Bible that means “oak”.

How to say it

Approximate pronunciation. Vowels sound as in Spanish (a as in father, e as in bed, i as in machine, o as in note, u as in rule); the syllable in bold is stressed. The voice is your device's.

Its senses in the Bible

1. A large, strong tree, the oak, used as a picture of strength.

From Brown-Driver-Briggs (1906)

How it is translated

The words this translation uses for it, most frequent first.

• oak ×4
• oaks ×4

Related words

Words of the same family, by Strong’s numbering.

Where it appears

• Genesis×1
• Isaiah×3
• Ezekiel×1
• Hosea×1
• Amos×1
• Zechariah×1

• Genesis 35:8

  Deborah, Rebekah’s nurse, died and was buried below Bethel under the oak; so he called its name Allon-bacuth.

• Isaiah 2:13

  and against all the cedars of Lebanon, lofty and lifted up, and against all the oaks of Bashan;

• Isaiah 6:13

  And though there is still a tenth in it, it will again be for consuming, like the terebinth and like the oak which, when cut down, leave their stump; the holy seed is its stump.”

• Isaiah 44:14

  To cut down cedars for himself, he takes a holm oak and an oak, and makes it strong for himself among the trees of the forest; he plants a pine, and the rain makes it grow.

• Ezekiel 27:6

  Of oaks from Bashan they made your oars; your planking they made of ivory set in boxwood from the coastlands of Kittim.

• Hosea 4:13

  On the tops of the mountains they sacrifice, and on the hills they burn incense, under oak and poplar and terebinth, for their shade is good. Therefore your daughters prostitute themselves, and your daughters-in-law commit adultery.

• Amos 2:9

  Yet I destroyed the Amorite before them, whose height was like the height of cedars, and he was strong as the oaks; and I destroyed his fruit above and his roots below.

• Zechariah 11:2

  Wail, cypress, for the cedar has fallen, because the nobles have been devastated. Wail, oaks of Bashan, for the impenetrable forest has come down.