אַלּוֹן
alon · oak, Allon
Hebrew word · Strong’s number H438 · appears 2 times in the Bible
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alon (אַלּוֹן) is a Hebrew word of the Bible that means “oak, Allon”.
A large tree, the oak. In Joshua 19:33, "the oak in Zaanannim," a mark of the border of Naphtali; in 1 Chronicles 4:37, Allon, the name of a man of Simeon.
How to say it
a·lon
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
- An oak, a large strong tree that served to mark a place, such as a boundary.
- A man of the tribe of Simeon, an ancestor of a chief of his family.
From Brown-Driver-Briggs (1906)
How it is translated
The words this translation uses for it, most frequent first.
- Allon ×1
- oak ×1
Related words
Comes from
Words of the same family, by Strong’s numbering.
Where it appears
- Joshua 19:33
And their border was from Heleph, from the oak in Zaanannim, and Adami-nekeb and Jabneel, as far as Lakkum; and its ends were at the Jordan;
- 1 Chronicles 4:37
and Ziza the son of Shiphi, the son of Allon, the son of Jedaiah, the son of Shimri, the son of Shemaiah.