אַלּוֹן
ʼallôwn · H437 · Hebrew · 8 occurrences
Thing
- OakWild Trees and Shrubs18 verses
Meanings
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oak tree
A large-size tree found either alone or in clumps or forests; one of the varieties of Quercus; functioned as landmarks, grave marks or gathering places; since its groves were considered sacred by Canaanites, ritual practices under them was always a temptation to Israelites, denounced in the texts as idolatry; their characteristics made them suitable symbols of a variety of attributes or attitudes
ExamplesGenesis 35:8 Now Deborah, Rebekah’s nurse, died, and she was buried below Bethel under the oak; and it was named Allon-bacuth.
Isaiah 2:13 And it will be against all the cedars of Lebanon that are lofty and lifted up, Against all the oaks of Bashan,
Isaiah 6:13 “Yet there will still be a tenth portion in it, And it will again be subject to burning, Like a terebinth or an oak Whose stump remains when it is cut down. The holy seed is its stump.”
How it’s used In 4 roles
Every occurrence, grouped by the words it is grammatically related to.
the word studied the word it goes with
Whose, or of whatGenitive or possessive
2 occurrences in 1 groups
- בָּשָׁןBashan 2
Words describing itAdjectives, demonstratives, participles
1 occurrences in 1 groups
- שַׁלֶּכֶתcutting down 1
What is done to itIt is the object
1 occurrences in 1 groups
- לָקַחto take, to receive 1
After prepositionsPrepositional phrases
5 occurrences in 3 groups
- תַּחַתunder, below, instead of 3
- כlike/as 2
- עַלon, upon, over, against 1
When two words share a role, as in “Paul and Barnabas said”, the verse appears under each, so a section’s counts can add up to more than the number of occurrences.
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Semantic domains 2 entries
- Trees001002007002
- אַלּוֹן names the oak tree, as the lofty oaks denounced alongside the cedars of Lebanon in a day of judgment (Isaiah 2:13) and the oaks from Bashan used to make ships' oars (Ezekiel 27:6).
- Names of People003001007
- The same spelling also serves as the personal name Allon (see אַלּוֹן (ʼAllôwn, H438)), an ancestor listed in Simeon's genealogy (1 Chronicles 4:37, tagged under אַלּוֹן (ʼAllôwn, H438) rather than under this common-noun entry).
Word family 13 words
Words formed from the same root. They share a form, not always a meaning.
Brown-Driver-Briggs Hebrew Lexicon H437. allon אַלּוֺן noun masculineGen 35:8 oak (ᵐ5 βάλανος, δρῦς, etc.) — ׳א absolute Gen…
אַלּוֺן noun masculineGen 35:8 oak (ᵐ5 βάλανος, δρῦς, etc.) — ׳א absolute Gen 35:8 +; construct ib.; plural אַלּוֺנִים Amo 2:9; Eze 27:6; construct אַלּוֺנֵי Isa 2:13; Zec 11:12; — as marking grave of Deborah, Rebekah's nurse Gen 35:8 (E); whence called oak of weeping, ׳א בָּכוּת ib. (see Di on the passage, & below אֵלוֺן p. 18); elsewhere only in prophets; as marking illicit shrines Hos 4:13 (|| אֵלָה לִבְנֶה,); as felled Isa 6:13 (in simile; || אֵלָה); as furnishing material for making idols Isa 44:14 (|| אֹרֶן תִּרְזָה, אֶרֶז,); as simile for strength (חסן) Amo 2:9; also הַבָּשָׁן אַלּוֺנֵי Isa 2:13 (as lofty & majestic), compare Eze 27:6 (as strong, for making oars); Zec 11:2, metaphor of prominent men.
Brown, Driver and Briggs, A Hebrew and English Lexicon of the Old Testament (1906), public domain
Topical studies with this word 2 entries
Meanings adapted from the UBS Dictionary of the Greek New Testament, © United Bible Societies, CC BY-SA 4.0 and the UBS Dictionary of Biblical Hebrew (from the Semantic Dictionary of Biblical Hebrew), © United Bible Societies, CC BY-SA 4.0; MACULA Greek Linguistic Datasets, available at https://github.com/Clear-Bible/macula-greek/, licensed CC BY 4.0; MACULA Hebrew Linguistic Datasets © 2022-2024 by Biblica, Inc., CC BY 4.0. Westminster Leningrad Codex (tanach.us). OpenScriptures Hebrew Bible morphology (hb.openscriptures.org), CC BY 4.0.
Sources
eRhema lexical overview, based on the UBS Dictionary of Biblical Hebrew and the UBS Dictionary of the Greek New Testament (© United Bible Societies, CC BY-SA 4.0) and Macula Hebrew and Greek (Clear Bible, CC BY 4.0); released under CC BY-SA 4.0
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