Strong's Hebrew · H424
H424 ʼêlâh
אֵלָה
ay-law'
oak
Looking for Greek G424 anérchomai? It has the same number in Strong's Greek lexicon but is a different word, not a translation of H424. Strong's numbering starts again for each language.
ʼêlâh appears 13 times in Scripture, including Genesis 35:4 and Judges 6:11. In the Doxa app, open any verse that uses it, keep your notes on it, and ask Doxa Engage how it connects to what God has said to you.
Definition
an oak or other strong tree
In the King James Version
elm, oak, teil-tree.
Derivation
feminine of H352 (אַיִל);
Appears 13 times in Scripture
“and went after the man of God. He found him sitting under an oak tree and asked, “Are you the man of God who came from Judah?” “I am,” he replied.”
“So Gideon went in and prepared a young goat and unleavened bread and an ephah of flour. He placed the meat in a basket and the broth in a pot and brought them out to present to Him under the oak.”
“Then the angel of the LORD came and sat down under the oak in Ophrah that belonged to Joash the Abiezrite, where his son Gideon was threshing wheat in a winepress to hide it from the Midianites.”
“But Joab declared, “I am not going to wait like this with you!” And he took three spears in his hand and thrust them through the heart of Absalom while he was still alive in the oak tree.”
“all their men of valor set out and retrieved the bodies of Saul and his sons and brought them to Jabesh. And they buried their bones under the oak in Jabesh and fasted seven days.”
“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.””
“So they gave Jacob all their foreign gods and all their earrings, and Jacob buried them under the oak near Shechem.”
“When one of the men saw this, he told Joab, “I just saw Absalom hanging in an oak tree!””
“Now Absalom was riding on his mule when he met the servants of David, and as the mule went under the thick branches of a large oak, Absalom’s head was caught fast in the tree. The mule under him kept going, so that he was suspended in midair.”
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Word study: Strong's Exhaustive Concordance (James Strong, 1890, public domain), with glosses and editions from STEP Bible (www.STEPBible.org); Open Scriptures Hebrew Bible Project (CC BY 4.0); Strong's Greek Dictionary in XML by Ulrik Sandborg-Petersen (CC0). Sources and changes Verse mappings: Berean Standard Bible interlinear tables (public domain).
