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ELON

(Heb. ʾēlôn, ʾêlôn)

(PERSON)

1. A Hittite, the father of Basemath, one of Esau’s two Hittite wives (Gen. 26:34). At Gen. 36:2 Elon’s daughter is called Adah and the father of Basemath is Ishmael. A LXX tradition labels him as a Hivite.

2. One of three sons of Zebulun (Gen. 46:14), ancestor of the Elonites (Num. 26:26).

3. A Zebulunite who succeeded Ibzan of Bethlehem as judge over Israel (Judg. 12:11). Elon was judge for 10 years and was buried in Aijalon, in the land of Zebulun. The verbal similarity in Hebrew consonantal script between Elon and Aijalon suggests that this is an etiological explanation.

Jesper Svartvik






Eerdmans Dictionary of the Bible (2000)

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