H437 - אַלּוֹן (ʼallôwn)

H437 אַלּוֹן (ʼallôwn) al-lone'

Hebrew

Noun (Masculine, Hebrew)

Quick Definition

oak

Strong's Definition

{an oak or other strong tree}

Derivation: a variation of H436 (אֵלוֹן)

KJV Usage: oak.

TWOT Reference: 100b

Outline of Biblical Usage

1) oak, great tree

Septuagint (LXX) Greek Equivalents

This Hebrew word is translated by the following Greek words in the Septuagint:

G1186

STEPBible — Tyndale Abridged Hebrew Lexicon

oak, great tree

Brown-Driver-Briggs Hebrew Lexicon

אַלּוֹן allôn BDB Definition: 1) oak, great tree Part of Speech: noun masculine A Related Word by BDB/Strongs Number: a variation of H436 Same Word by TWOT Number: 100b Total KJV Occurrences: 8

Bible Occurrences (8)

35:8

2:13 6:13 44:14

27:6

4:13

2:9

11:2

Genesis 35:8

Now Deborah, Rebekah’s nurse, died and was buried under the oak below Bethel. So [Jacob] named [it] Allon-bacuth.

Isaiah 2:13

against all the cedars of Lebanon, lofty and lifted up, against all the oaks of Bashan,

Isaiah 6:13

And though a tenth [remains] in [the land], it will be burned again. As the terebinth and oak leave stumps when felled, so the holy seed will be a stump [in the land].

Isaiah 44:14

He cuts down cedars or retrieves a cypress or oak. He lets it grow strong among the trees of the forest. He plants a laurel, and the rain makes it grow.

Ezekiel 27:6

[Of] oaks from Bashan they made your oars; of wood from the coasts of Cyprus they made your deck, inlaid with ivory.......

Hosea 4:13

They sacrifice on the mountaintops... and burn offerings on the hills, under oak, poplar, and terebinth, because their shade is pleasant. And so... your daughters turn to prostitution and your daughters-in-law to adultery.

Amos 2:9

Yet [it was] I who destroyed the Amorite before them, though his height was like that of the cedars, and he was as strong as the oaks. Yet I destroyed his fruit above and his roots below.

Zechariah 11:2

Wail, O cypress, for the cedar has fallen; the majestic [trees] are ruined! Wail, O oaks of Bashan, for the dense forest has been cut down!