אֵלָהʼêlâh
Pistacia terebinthus (Genesis 35:4; Genesis 49:21; Joshua 24:26; Judges 6:11; Judges 6:19)
Pronunciation: ay-law' · Hebrew/Aramaic (Old Testament) · H424
Same root
- אַיִלʼayil · H352properly, strength; hence, anything strong; specifically a chief (politically); also a ram (from his strength); a pilaster (as a strong support); an oak or other strong tree
- אֵלָאʼÊlâʼ · H414Ela, an Israelite
- אֵלָהʼÊlâh · H425Elah, the name of an Edomite, of four Israelites, and also of a place in Palestine
- אַלָּהʼallâh · H427{an oak or other strong tree}
Where it appears
Appears 13 times in the Bible.
- Genesis 35:4 So they gave Jacob all their pagan idols and earrings, and he buried them under the great tree near Shechem.
- Judges 6:11 Then the angel of the Lord came and sat beneath the great tree at Ophrah, which belonged to Joash of the clan of Abiezer. Gideon son of Joash was threshing wheat at the bottom of a winepress to hide the grain from the Midianites.
- Judges 6:19 Gideon hurried home. He cooked a young goat, and with a basket of flour he baked some bread without yeast. Then, carrying the meat in a basket and the broth in a pot, he brought them out and presented them to the angel, who was under the great tree.
- 2 Samuel 18:9 During the battle, Absalom happened to come upon some of David’s men. He tried to escape on his mule, but as he rode beneath the thick branches of a great tree, his hair got caught in the tree. His mule kept going and left him dangling in the air.
- 2 Samuel 18:10 One of David’s men saw what had happened and told Joab, “I saw Absalom dangling from a great tree.”
- 2 Samuel 18:14 “Enough of this nonsense,” Joab said. Then he took three daggers and plunged them into Absalom’s heart as he dangled, still alive, in the great tree.
Source: Brown, Driver and Briggs, Hebrew and English Lexicon of the Old Testament (1906), public domain; markup by unfoldingWord, CC BY (github.com/unfoldingWord/Brown-Driver-Briggs-Enhanced).