ela · great tree, terebinth

What it means

ela (אֵלָה) is a Hebrew word of the Bible that means “great tree, terebinth”.

A large, strong tree: an oak or terebinth.

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, leafy tree.

From Brown-Driver-Briggs (1906)

How it is translated

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

• oak ×10
• terebinth ×3

Related words

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

Where it appears

• Genesis×1
• Judges×2
• 2 Samuel×4
• 1 Kings×1
• 1 Chronicles×1
• Isaiah×2
• Ezekiel×1
• Hosea×1

• Genesis 35:4

  So they gave to Jacob all the foreign gods that were in their hands, and the rings that were in their ears; and Jacob buried them under the oak that was near Shechem.

• Judges 6:11

  The angel of YHWH came and sat under the oak that is in Ophrah, which belonged to Joash the Abiezrite, while Gideon his son was beating out wheat in the winepress to hide it from Midian.

• Judges 6:19

  Gideon went in and prepared a young goat and unleavened bread from an ephah of flour; the meat he put in the basket, and the broth he put in the pot, and he brought them out to him under the oak and presented them.

• 2 Samuel 18:9

  Absalom happened to be before the servants of David. Absalom was riding on the mule, and the mule went under the thick branches of the great oak, and his head caught fast in the oak, and he was left hanging between the heavens and the earth, while the mule that was under him went on.

• 2 Samuel 18:10

  A certain man saw it and told Joab, and said, “Look, I saw Absalom hanging in the oak.”

• 2 Samuel 18:14

  Joab said, “I will not wait like this before you.” He took three darts in his hand and thrust them into the heart of Absalom, while he was still alive in the heart of the oak.

• 1 Kings 13:14

  He went after the man of Elohim and found him sitting under the oak. He said to him, “Are you the man of Elohim who came from Judah?” He said, “I am.”

• 1 Chronicles 10:12

  and all the valiant men arose and took away the corpse of Saul and the corpses of his sons, and brought them to Jabesh; and they buried their bones under the oak in Jabesh, and fasted seven days.

• Isaiah 1:30

  For you will be like a terebinth whose leaves wither, and like a garden that has no water.

• 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.”

• Ezekiel 6:13

  And you will know that I am YHWH, when their slain are among their idols, around their altars, on every high hill, on all the tops of the mountains, and under every leafy tree, and under every dense oak, the place where they gave a pleasing aroma to all their idols.

• 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.

And 1 more times.