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עֶגְלוֹן

ʻEglôwn · H5700 · Hebrew · proper noun · 13 occurrences

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Meanings

  1. Eglon

    Town; located in the foothills; territory of Judah

    Examples

    Joshua 10:3 Therefore Adoni-zedek king of Jerusalem sent word to Hoham king of Hebron, to Piram king of Jarmuth, to Japhia king of Lachish, and to Debir king of Eglon, saying,

    Joshua 10:5 So the five kings of the Amorites, the king of Jerusalem, the king of Hebron, the king of Jarmuth, the king of Lachish, and the king of Eglon, gathered together and went up, they with all their armies, and camped by Gibeon and fought against it.

    Joshua 10:23 They did so, and brought these five kings out to him from the cave: the king of Jerusalem, the king of Hebron, the king of Jarmuth, the king of Lachish, and the king of Eglon.

  2. Eglon

    Eglon, king of Moab who oppressed Israel and was killed by Ehud in the time of the judges

    Examples

    Judges 3:12 Now the sons of Israel again did evil in the sight of the LORD. So the LORD strengthened Eglon the king of Moab against Israel, because they had done evil in the sight of the LORD.

    Judges 3:14 And the sons of Israel served Eglon the king of Moab for eighteen years.

    Judges 3:15 But when the sons of Israel cried out to the LORD, the LORD raised up a deliverer for them, Ehud the son of Gera, the Benjaminite, a left-handed man. And the sons of Israel sent tribute by him to Eglon the king of Moab.

How it’s used In 5 roles

Every occurrence, grouped by the words it is grammatically related to.

the word studied the word it goes with

Named alongside itApposition

4 occurrences in 1 groups

What is done to itIt is the object

2 occurrences in 2 groups

What it is said to bePredicate

1 occurrences in 1 groups

After prepositionsPrepositional phrases

4 occurrences in 2 groups

In phrases “… of it”It is the genitive

4 occurrences in 1 groups

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
Names of Locations003001010
One attested sense, the Canaanite city of Eglon, conquered by Joshua and later allotted to the tribe of Judah.
Names of People003001007
The same name borne by Eglon king of Moab, the oppressor of Israel assassinated by the judge Ehud.
Brown-Driver-Briggs Hebrew Lexicon H5700. Eglown עֶגְלוֺן13 proper name (compare Gray Prop. N. 92, No. 27); — 1. masculine a…
H5700. Eglown
עֶגְלוֺן13 proper name (compare Gray Prop. N. 92, No. 27); —
1. masculine a king of Moab, Jdg 3:12, Jdg 3:14, Jdg 3:15, Jdg 3:17 (twice in verse), ᵐ5 Εγλωμ. 2
location Jos 10:3, Jos 10:5, Jos 10:23, Jos 10:37; Jos 12:12; Jos 15:34, with ה locative Jos 10:34, מֵעֶגְלוֺ֫נָה Jos 10:36; ᵐ5 Οδολλαμ Joshua 10; Αιλαμ Jos 12:12, A Εγλωμ, ᵐ5 Εγλων, and so Jos 15:39; site ±A³lân, North of Tele-el-–esy, BuhlGeogr. 192.
עֶגְלַ֫יִם Eze 47:10 in ע ׳עֵין q. v.

Brown, Driver and Briggs, A Hebrew and English Lexicon of the Old Testament (1906), public domain

Topical studies with this word 2 entries
Names of People5 occurrencesNames of Locations8 occurrences

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

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