Oak
אַלּוֹןStrong’s H0437allon (al-lon)
Appears in 8 verses of the Old Testament
In short
Allon is the Hebrew word usually translated “oak”, “oaks of” and “like oak”. It appears in 8 verses of the Old Testament.
“Howl, fir tree; for the cedar is fallen; because the mighty are spoiled: howl, O ye oaks of Bashan; for the forest of the vintage is come down.”
Meaning
- Oak, great tree
How it's translated
- the oak 1
- oaks of 1
- and like oak 1
- and an oak 1
- oaks 1
- oak 1
- like oaks 1
- o oaks of 1
Word-by-word English from the STEPBible tagged text.
Where it's used most
- Isaiah 3
- Genesis 1
- Ezekiel 1
- Hosea 1
- Amos 1
- Zechariah 1
6 books in all.
Explore in Scripture
- Genesis 35:8But Deborah Rebekah’s nurse died, and she was buried beneath Bethel under an oak: and the name of it was called Allonbachuth.
- Isaiah 2:13And upon all the cedars of Lebanon, that are high and lifted up, and upon all the oaks of Bashan,
- Isaiah 6:13But yet in it shall be a tenth, and it shall return, and shall be eaten: as a teil tree, and as an oak, whose substance is in them, when they cast their leaves: so the holy seed shall be the substance thereof.
- Isaiah 44:14He heweth him down cedars, and taketh the cypress and the oak, which he strengtheneth for himself among the trees of the forest: he planteth an ash, and the rain doth nourish it.
- Ezekiel 27:6Of the oaks of Bashan have they made thine oars; the company of the Ashurites have made thy benches of ivory, brought out of the isles of Chittim.
- Hosea 4:13They sacrifice upon the tops of the mountains, and burn incense upon the hills, under oaks and poplars and elms, because the shadow thereof is good: therefore your daughters shall commit whoredom, and your spouses shall commit adultery.
Hebrew dictionary
אַלּוֹן allon · oak
oak, great tree
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.