elon · oak, terebinth

What it means

elon (אֵלוֹן) is a Hebrew word of the Bible that means “oak, terebinth”.

A great tree, oak or terebinth; it served as a landmark.

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 tree that served as a landmark.

From Brown-Driver-Briggs (1906)

How it is translated

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

• oak ×5
• oaks ×4

Related words

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

Where it appears

• Genesis×4
• Deuteronomy×1
• Judges×3
• 1 Samuel×1

• Genesis 12:6

  Abram passed through the land as far as the place of Shechem, as far as the oak of Moreh. The Canaanites were then in the land.

• Genesis 13:18

  So Abram moved his tent and came and lived by the oaks of Mamre, which are in Hebron, and he built there an altar to YHWH.

• Genesis 14:13

  One who had escaped came and told Abram the Hebrew, who was living by the oaks of Mamre the Amorite, brother of Eshcol and brother of Aner; and they had a covenant with Abram.

• Genesis 18:1

  YHWH appeared to him by the oaks of Mamre, while he was sitting at the entrance of the tent in the heat of the day.

• Deuteronomy 11:30

  Are they not beyond the Jordan, behind the road of the sunset, in the land of the Canaanite who lives in the Arabah, opposite Gilgal, beside the oaks of Moreh?

• Judges 4:11

  Now Heber the Kenite had separated from the Kenites, from the sons of Hobab, the father-in-law of Moses, and had pitched his tent as far as the oak in Zaanannim, which is near Kedesh.

• Judges 9:6

  All the lords of Shechem gathered, and all the house of Millo, and they went and made Abimelech king by the oak of the standing stone that is in Shechem.

• Judges 9:37

  Gaal again spoke and said, “Look, people are coming down from the center of the land, and one company is coming by the way of the oak of Meonenim.”

• 1 Samuel 10:3

  Then you will go on from there farther and come to the oak of Tabor, and there three men going up to Elohim at Bethel will find you, one carrying three young goats, another carrying three round loaves of bread, and another carrying a skin of wine.