ʼAyâlôwn — H357

H357 · Hebrew — אילון

Pronunciation: ah-yaw-lone'

Definition

locative proper noun

Ajalon, the name of five places in Palestine

  1. Ajalon or Aijalon = "field of deer"
  2. Levitical city in Dan, 14 miles or 25 km NW of Jerusalem, later ruled by the Amorites, then the Benjamites of Judah, then by the Philistines
  3. a city of Zebulun, site unknown

Usually translated as

Aijalon, Ajalon

Origin

from H354; deer-field

Occurrences

ʼAyâlôwn occurs 10 times in the King James.

Distribution of the word across the Bible: Joshua (3), Judges (2), 1 Samuel (1), 1 Chronicles (2), 2 Chronicles (2)

Strong's Lexicon — A