Occurrences
ʼêlâh occurs 13 times in 12 verses of the King James.
Distribution of the word across the Bible: Genesis (1), Judges (2), 2 Samuel (3), 1 Kings (1), 1 Chronicles (1), Isaiah (2), Ezekiel (1), Hosea (1)
- 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 (הָאֵלָ֖ה) which was by Shechem.
- Judges 6:11 — And there came an angel of the LORD, and sat under an oak (הָֽאֵלָה֙) which was in Ophrah, that pertained unto Joash the Abi-ezrite: and his son Gideon threshed wheat by the winepress, to hide it from the Midianites.
- 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 it out unto him under the oak (הָאֵלָ֖ה), and presented it.
- 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 (הָאֵלָ֨ה), and his head caught hold of the oak, and he was taken up between the heaven and the earth; and the mule that was under him went away.
- 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 oak (בָאֵלָ֗ה), and he was taken up between the heaven and the earth; and the mule that was under him went away.
- 2 Samuel 18:10 — And a certain man saw it, and told Joab, and said, Behold, I saw Absalom hanged in an oak (בָּאֵלָֽה).
- 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 the midst of the oak (הָאֵלָֽה).
- 1 Kings 13:14 — And went after the man of God, and found him sitting under an oak (הָאֵלָ֑ה): 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 (הָאֵלָה֙) in Jabesh, and fasted seven days.
- Isaiah 1:30 — For ye shall be as an oak (כְּאֵלָ֖ה) 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 (כָּאֵלָ֣ה), and as an oak, whose substance is in them, when they cast their leaves: so the holy seed shall be the substance thereof.
- 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 mountains, and under every green tree, and under every thick oak (אֵלָ֣ה), the place where they did offer sweet savour to all their idols.
- Hosea 4:13 — They sacrifice upon the tops of the mountains, and burn incense upon the hills, under oaks and poplars and elms (וְאֵלָ֖ה), because the shadow thereof is good: therefore your daughters shall commit whoredom, and your spouses shall commit adultery.