ilan · tree

What it means

ilan (אִילָן) is an Aramaic word of the Bible that means “tree”.

(Aramaic).

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 great tree, in Daniel the image of a powerful king (Aramaic).

From Brown-Driver-Briggs (1906)

Related words

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

Where it appears

• Daniel 4:10

  And these were the visions of my head on my bed: I was looking, and look, a tree in the midst of the earth, and its height was great.

• Daniel 4:11

  The tree grew and became strong, and its height reached to the heavens, and its visibility to the end of all the earth.

• Daniel 4:14

  He called out with strength and said this: ‘Cut down the tree and cut off its branches; strip off its foliage and scatter its fruit. Let the animals flee from under it, and the birds from its branches.

• Daniel 4:20

  The tree that you saw, which grew and became strong, and whose height reached to the heavens, and its visibility to all the earth,

• Daniel 4:23

  And as for what the king saw, a watcher and a holy one coming down from the heavens and saying, ‘Cut down the tree and destroy it, but leave the stump of its roots in the earth, and with a band of iron and bronze, in the grass of the field; and with the dew of the heavens let him be drenched, and with the animals of the field be his portion, until seven times pass over him’:

• Daniel 4:26

  And as for what they said, to leave the stump of the roots of the tree, your kingdom for you will remain firm from the time that you know that the heavens rule.