Lexical Summary Elon: "terebinth", an Israelite name, also a Hittite, also a city in Dan Original Word: אֵילוֹןTransliteration: Elon Phonetic Spelling: (ay-lone') Part of Speech: Proper Name Short Definition: "terebinth", an Israelite name, also a Hittite, also a city in Dan Meaning: Elon -- "terebinth", an Israelite name, also a Hittite, also a city in Dan Strong's Concordance Elon Or (shortened);Elown {ay-lone'}; or Eylon {ay- lone'}; from 'ayil; oak-grove; Elon, the name of a place in Palestine, and also of one Hittite, two Israelites -- Elon. see HEBREW 'ayil Brown-Driver-Briggs H356. Elon II. אֵלוֺן proper name, masculine (= id. compare אֵלָה proper name) 1 a son of Zebulun Genesis 46:14; Numbers 26:26. 2 אֵילֹן Genesis 26:34; אֵיִלוֺן 36:2 a Hittite, father-in-law of Esau. 3 אֵילוֺן Judges 12:11-12, a judge of Israel, of tribe of Zebulun 4. proper name, of a location אֵילוֺן Joshua 19:43 a town of Dan; so 1 Kings 4:9 (where read ׳א ח ׳וּבֵית Th Klo). |