Oak
אַלָּהStrong’s H0427allah (al-lah)
Appears in 1 verse of the Old Testament
In short
Allah is the Hebrew word usually translated “oak”. It appears in 1 verse of the Old Testament.
“And Joshua wrote these words in the book of the law of God, and took a great stone, and set it up there under an oak, that was by the sanctuary of the LORD.”
Meaning
- Oak
- Terebinth
How it's translated
- the oak 1
Word-by-word English from the STEPBible tagged text.
Where it's used most
- Joshua 1
1 book in all.
Explore in Scripture
Hebrew dictionary
אַלָּה allah · oak
1) oak 2) terebinth
From STEPBible’s Hebrew lexicon (based on Brown-Driver-Briggs).
Webster's 1828 Dictionary
How the English word “oak” was understood when the King James Version was still the common Bible of English readers.
OAK, noun
[It is probably that the first syllable, oak was originally an adjective expressing some quality, as hard or strong, and by the disuse of tree, oak became the name of the tree.]
Noah Webster, An American Dictionary of the English Language (1828). Verse references are checked against the KJV. Read the full entry.
Verses are from the King James Version. Word meanings come from the original Hebrew, not from any one translation.