אֵלָה elah

Hebrew word for “oak” · Strong’s H424 · used 13 times in 12 verses

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Meaning

1) terebinth, terebinth tree; 2) valley where David killed Goliath

How it is translated

Glosses given for elah in context, with how often each is used:

• oak 9
• terebinth 2
• like an oak 1
• like terebinth 1

Where it is used

Chapters where it is used most

2 Samuel 18 (3), Judges 6 (2), Genesis 35 (1), 1 Kings 13 (1), 1 Chronicles 10 (1), Isaiah 1 (1), Isaiah 6 (1), Ezekiel 6 (1), Hosea 4 (1)

Forms

• האלה 7
• באלה 2
• כאלה 2
• אלה 1
• ואלה 1

Words used with it

Words that share verses with elah more often than their overall frequency would suggest:

• תַּחַת tachat “underneath” 8
• אֲבִישָׁלוֹם avishalom “Absalom” 3
• אַלּוֹן allon “oak” 2
• גִּדְעוֹן gidon “Gideon” 2
• גִּבְעָה givah “hill” 2
• רֹאשׁ rosh “head” 3
• יוֹאָב yoav “Joab” 2
• הָ ha “her” 2
• עוֹד od “still” 2
• הַר har “mountain” 2
• כֵּן ken “so” 2
• אֲנִי ani “I” 2

Key verses

The verses using elah that are most connected by cross-references (King James Version):

• Genesis 35:4 — And they gave unto Jacob all the strange gods which were in their hand, and all their earrings which were in their ears; and Jacob hid them under the oak which…
• Judges 6:11 — And there came an angel of the LORD, and sat under an oak which was in Ophrah, that pertained unto Joash the Abi-ezrite: and his son Gideon threshed wheat by…
• Judges 6:19 — And Gideon went in, and made ready a kid, and unleavened cakes of an ephah of flour: the flesh he put in a basket, and he put the broth in a pot, and brought…
• 2 Samuel 18:9 — And Absalom met the servants of David. And Absalom rode upon a mule, and the mule went under the thick boughs of a great oak, and his head caught hold of the…
• 2 Samuel 18:10 — And a certain man saw it, and told Joab, and said, Behold, I saw Absalom hanged in an oak.
• 2 Samuel 18:14 — Then said Joab, I may not tarry thus with thee. And he took three darts in his hand, and thrust them through the heart of Absalom, while he was yet alive in…
• 1 Kings 13:14 — And went after the man of God, and found him sitting under an oak: and he said unto him, Art thou the man of God that camest from Judah? And he said, I am.
• 1 Chronicles 10:12 — They arose, all the valiant men, and took away the body of Saul, and the bodies of his sons, and brought them to Jabesh, and buried their bones under the oak…
• Isaiah 1:30 — For ye shall be as an oak whose leaf fadeth, and as a garden that hath no water.
• Isaiah 6:13 — But 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 the holy…
• Ezekiel 6:13 — Then shall ye know that I am the LORD, when their slain men shall be among their idols round about their altars, upon every high hill, in all the tops of the…
• Hosea 4:13 — They 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…

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Hebrew and Greek text, tagging, glosses and lexicon definitions: STEPBible.org, Tyndale House Cambridge (TAHOT, TAGNT, TBESH, TBESG; CC BY 4.0), adapted. Counts follow King James verse numbering; a word counts each time it is written.