Words the Bible translates as oak
English uses one word here. The Bible uses 6 words, and they do not mean the same thing. Each is listed with what it actually means, most frequent first.
- ayilאַיִלa great tree, an oak or terebinth
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- a ram: an adult male sheep, especially one offered in sacrifice
- a chief or mighty man: a powerful leader of a people
- a projecting post or pillar framing a doorway or gateway
- elahאֵלָהa terebinth: a large, broad shade tree of the hills and the dry country, and in most places one particular tree that people knew and could walk to
- elonאֵלוֹןa great tree known by name: one particular landmark tree, and in most cases a holy place where God was met or an oracle sought
- allonאַלּוֹןthe oak: the broad, hard, long lived tree of the hills, named as a kind of tree rather than as one famous landmark
- allonאַלּוֹןa great oak serving as a known landmark, the one tree by which a boundary was described
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- Allon: a man's name in the family lists of the tribe of Simeon, a name that plainly means "oak"
- allahאַלָּהoaknot studied yet
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