Meaning of “Elon”

1. Elon — oak. (1.) A city of Dan (Josh. 19:43). (2.) A Hittite, father of Bashemath, Esau's wife (Gen. 26:34). (3.) One of the sons of Zebulun (Gen. 46:14). (4.) The eleventh of the Hebrew judges. He held office for ten years (Judg. 12:11, 12). He is called the Zebulonite.

2. Ashkelon — =Askelon=Ascalon, was one of the five cities of the Philistines (Josh. 13:3; 1 Sam. 6:17). It stood on the shore of the Mediterranean, 12 miles north of Gaza. It is mentioned on an inscription at Karnak in Egypt as having been taken by king Rameses II., the oppressor of the Hebrews. In the time of the judges (Judg. 1:18) it fell into the possession of the tribe of Judah; but it was soon after retaken by the Philistines (2 Sam. 1:20), who were not finally dispossessed till the time of Alexander the Great. Samson went down to this place from Timnath, and slew thirty men and took their spoil. The prophets foretold its destruction (Jer. 25:20; 47:5, 7). It became a noted place in the Middle Ages, having been the scene of many a bloody battle between the Saracens and the Crusaders. It was beseiged and taken by Richard the Lion-hearted, and "within its walls and towers now standing he held his court." Among the Tell Amarna tablets (see EGYPT »T0001137) are found letters or official despatches from Yadaya, "captain of horse and dust of the king's feet," to the "great king" of Egypt, dated from Ascalon. It is now called 'Askalan.

3. Esdraelon — the Greek form of the Hebrew "Jezreel," the name of the great plain (called by the natives Merj Ibn Amer; i.e., "the meadow of the son of Amer") which stretches across Central Palestine from the Jordan to the Mediterraanean, separating the mountain ranges of Carmel and Samaria from those of Galilee, extending about 14 miles from north to south, and 9 miles from east to west. It is drained by "that ancient river" the Kishon, which flows westward to the Mediterranean. From the foot of Mount Tabor it branches out into three valleys, that on the north passing between Tabor and Little Hermon (Judg. 4:14); that on the south between Mount Gilboa and En-gannim (2 Kings 9:27); while the central portion, the "valley of Jezreel" proper, runs into the Jordan valley (which is about 1,000 feet lower than Esdraelon) by Bethshean. Here Gideon gained his great victory over the Midianites (Judg. 7:1-25). Here also Barak defeated Sisera, and Saul's army was defeated by the Philistines, and king Josiah, while fighting in disguise against Necho, king of Egypt, was slain (2 Chr. 35:20-27; 2 Kings 23-29). This plain has been well called the "battle-field of Palestine." "It has been a chosen place for encampment in every contest carried on in this country, from the days of Nebuchadnezzar, king of the Assyrians, in the history of whose wars with Arphaxad it is mentioned as the Great Plain of Esdraelon, until the disastrous march of Napoleon Bonaparte from Egypt into Syria. Jews, Gentiles, Saracens, Crusaders, Frenchmen, Egyptians, Persians, Druses, Turks, and Arabs, warriors out of every nation which is under heaven, have pitched their tents in the plain, and have beheld the various banners of their nations wet with the dews of Tabor and Hermon" (Dr. Clark).

4. Helon — strong, father of Eliab, who was "captain of the children of Zebulun" (Num. 1:9; 2:7).

5. Melons — only in Num. 11:5, the translation of the Hebrew abattihim, the LXX. and Vulgate pepones, Arabic britikh. Of this plant there are various kinds, the Egyptian melon, the Cucumus chate, which has been called "the queen of cucumbers;" the water melon, the Cucurbita citrullus; and the common or flesh melon, the Cucumus melo. "A traveller in the East who recollects the intense gratitude which a gift of a slice of melon inspired while journeying over the hot and dry plains, will readily comprehend the regret with which the Hebrews in the Arabian desert looked back upon the melons of Egypt" (Kitto).

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1. Genesis Chapter 26 Verse 34 — And Esau was forty years old when he took to wife Judith the daughter of Beeri the Hittite, and Bashemath the daughter of Elon the Hittite:

2. Genesis Chapter 36 Verse 2 — Esau took his wives of the daughters of Canaan; Adah the daughter of Elon the Hittite, and Aholibamah the daughter of Anah the daughter of Zibeon the Hivite;

3. Genesis Chapter 40 Verse 8 — And they said unto him, We have dreamed a dream, and there is no interpreter of it. And Joseph said unto them, Do not interpretations belong to God? tell me them, I pray you.

4. Genesis Chapter 46 Verse 14 — And the sons of Zebulun; Sered, and Elon, and Jahleel.

5. Leviticus Chapter 27 Verse 24 — In the year of the jubilee the field shall return unto him of whom it was bought, even to him to whom the possession of the land did belong.

6. Numbers Chapter 1 Verse 50 — But thou shalt appoint the Levites over the tabernacle of testimony, and over all the vessels thereof, and over all things that belong to it: they shall bear the tabernacle, and all the vessels thereof; and they shall minister unto it, and shall encamp round about the tabernacle.

7. Numbers Chapter 1 Verse 9 — Of Zebulun; Eliab the son of Helon.

8. Numbers Chapter 2 Verse 7 — Then the tribe of Zebulun: and Eliab the son of Helon shall be captain of the children of Zebulun.

9. Numbers Chapter 7 Verse 29 — And for a sacrifice of peace offerings, two oxen, five rams, five he goats, five lambs of the first year: this was the offering of Eliab the son of Helon.

10. Numbers Chapter 7 Verse 24 — On the third day Eliab the son of Helon, prince of the children of Zebulun, did offer:

11. Numbers Chapter 7 Verse 9 — But unto the sons of Kohath he gave none: because the service of the sanctuary belonging unto them was that they should bear upon their shoulders.

12. Numbers Chapter 8 Verse 24 — This is it that belongeth unto the Levites: from twenty and five years old and upward they shall go in to wait upon the service of the tabernacle of the congregation:

13. Numbers Chapter 10 Verse 16 — And over the host of the tribe of the children of Zebulun was Eliab the son of Helon.

14. Numbers Chapter 11 Verse 5 — We remember the fish, which we did eat in Egypt freely; the cucumbers, and the melons, and the leeks, and the onions, and the garlic:

15. Numbers Chapter 26 Verse 26 — Of the sons of Zebulun after their families: of Sered, the family of the Sardites: of Elon, the family of the Elonites: of Jahleel, the family of the Jahleelites.

16. Deuteronomy Chapter 29 Verse 29 — The secret things belong unto the LORD our God: but those things which are revealed belong unto us and to our children for ever, that we may do all the words of this law.

17. Deuteronomy Chapter 32 Verse 35 — To me belongeth vengeance and recompence; their foot shall slide in due time: for the day of their calamity is at hand, and the things that shall come upon them make haste.

18. Joshua Chapter 17 Verse 8 — Now Manasseh had the land of Tappuah: but Tappuah on the border of Manasseh belonged to the children of Ephraim;

19. Joshua Chapter 19 Verse 43 — And Elon, and Thimnathah, and Ekron,

20. Judges Chapter 1 Verse 18 — Also Judah took Gaza with the coast thereof, and Askelon with the coast thereof, and Ekron with the coast thereof.

21. Judges Chapter 12 Verse 12 — And Elon the Zebulonite died, and was buried in Aijalon in the country of Zebulun.

22. Judges Chapter 12 Verse 11 — And after him Elon, a Zebulonite, judged Israel; and he judged Israel ten years.

23. Judges Chapter 14 Verse 19 — And the Spirit of the LORD came upon him, and he went down to Ashkelon, and slew thirty men of them, and took their spoil, and gave change of garments unto them which expounded the riddle. And his anger was kindled, and he went up to his father's house.

24. Judges Chapter 19 Verse 14 — And they passed on and went their way; and the sun went down upon them when they were by Gibeah, which belongeth to Benjamin.

25. Judges Chapter 20 Verse 4 — And the Levite, the husband of the woman that was slain, answered and said, I came into Gibeah that belongeth to Benjamin, I and my concubine, to lodge.

26. Ruth Chapter 2 Verse 3 — And she went, and came, and gleaned in the field after the reapers: and her hap was to light on a part of the field belonging unto Boaz, who was of the kindred of Elimelech.

27. 1 Samuel Chapter 6 Verse 18 — And the golden mice, according to the number of all the cities of the Philistines belonging to the five lords, both of fenced cities, and of country villages, even unto the great stone of Abel, whereon they set down the ark of the LORD: which stone remaineth unto this day in the field of Joshua, the Bethshemite.

28. 1 Samuel Chapter 6 Verse 17 — And these are the golden emerods which the Philistines returned for a trespass offering unto the LORD; for Ashdod one, for Gaza one, for Askelon one, for Gath one, for Ekron one;

29. 1 Samuel Chapter 17 Verse 1 — Now the Philistines gathered together their armies to battle, and were gathered together at Shochoh, which belongeth to Judah, and pitched between Shochoh and Azekah, in Ephesdammim.

30. 1 Samuel Chapter 21 Verse 7 — Now a certain man of the servants of Saul was there that day, detained before the LORD; and his name was Doeg, an Edomite, the chiefest of the herdmen that belonged to Saul.

31. 1 Samuel Chapter 30 Verse 14 — We made an invasion upon the south of the Cherethites, and upon the coast which belongeth to Judah, and upon the south of Caleb; and we burned Ziklag with fire.

32. 1 Samuel Chapter 30 Verse 13 — And David said unto him, To whom belongest thou? and whence art thou? And he said, I am a young man of Egypt, servant to an Amalekite; and my master left me, because three days agone I fell sick.

33. 2 Samuel Chapter 1 Verse 20 — Tell it not in Gath, publish it not in the streets of Askelon; lest the daughters of the Philistines rejoice, lest the daughters of the uncircumcised triumph.

34. 1 Kings Chapter 1 Verse 8 — But Zadok the priest, and Benaiah the son of Jehoiada, and Nathan the prophet, and Shimei, and Rei, and the mighty men which belonged to David, were not with Adonijah.

35. 1 Kings Chapter 4 Verse 9 — The son of Dekar, in Makaz, and in Shaalbim, and Bethshemesh, and Elonbethhanan:

36. 1 Kings Chapter 15 Verse 27 — And Baasha the son of Ahijah, of the house of Issachar, conspired against him; and Baasha smote him at Gibbethon, which belonged to the Philistines; for Nadab and all Israel laid siege to Gibbethon.

37. 1 Kings Chapter 16 Verse 15 — In the twenty and seventh year of Asa king of Judah did Zimri reign seven days in Tirzah. And the people were encamped against Gibbethon, which belonged to the Philistines.

38. 1 Kings Chapter 17 Verse 9 — Arise, get thee to Zarephath, which belongeth to Zidon, and dwell there: behold, I have commanded a widow woman there to sustain thee.

39. 1 Kings Chapter 19 Verse 3 — And when he saw that, he arose, and went for his life, and came to Beersheba, which belongeth to Judah, and left his servant there.

40. 2 Kings Chapter 14 Verse 28 — Now the rest of the acts of Jeroboam, and all that he did, and his might, how he warred, and how he recovered Damascus, and Hamath, which belonged to Judah, for Israel, are they not written in the book of the chronicles of the kings of Israel?

41. 2 Kings Chapter 14 Verse 11 — But Amaziah would not hear. Therefore Jehoash king of Israel went up; and he and Amaziah king of Judah looked one another in the face at Bethshemesh, which belongeth to Judah.

42. 1 Chronicles Chapter 2 Verse 23 — And he took Geshur, and Aram, with the towns of Jair, from them, with Kenath, and the towns thereof, even threescore cities. All these belonged to the sons of Machir the father of Gilead.

43. 1 Chronicles Chapter 11 Verse 36 — Hepher the Mecherathite, Ahijah the Pelonite,

44. 1 Chronicles Chapter 11 Verse 27 — Shammoth the Harorite, Helez the Pelonite,

45. 1 Chronicles Chapter 13 Verse 6 — And David went up, and all Israel, to Baalah, that is, to Kirjathjearim, which belonged to Judah, to bring up thence the ark of God the LORD, that dwelleth between the cherubim, whose name is called on it.

46. 1 Chronicles Chapter 27 Verse 10 — The seventh captain for the seventh month was Helez the Pelonite, of the children of Ephraim: and in his course were twenty and four thousand.

47. 2 Chronicles Chapter 25 Verse 21 — So Joash the king of Israel went up; and they saw one another in the face, both he and Amaziah king of Judah, at Bethshemesh, which belongeth to Judah.

48. 2 Chronicles Chapter 26 Verse 23 — So Uzziah slept with his fathers, and they buried him with his fathers in the field of the burial which belonged to the kings; for they said, He is a leper: and Jotham his son reigned in his stead.

49. Ezra Chapter 10 Verse 4 — Arise; for this matter belongeth unto thee: we also will be with thee: be of good courage, and do it.

50. Esther Chapter 1 Verse 9 — Also Vashti the queen made a feast for the women in the royal house which belonged to king Ahasuerus.

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