ʼEshtâʼôl — H847

Definition

locative proper noun

Eshtaol, a place in Palestine

1. Eshtaol = "entreaty"
2. a Danite city located within Judah

Usually translated as

Eshtaol

Origin

or ʼEshtâʼôwl; probably from H7592; intreaty

• Shâʼal (H7592)

Occurrences

ʼEshtâʼôl occurs 7 times in the King James.

Distribution of the word across the Bible: Joshua (2), Judges (5)

• Joshua 15:33 — And in the valley, Eshtaol (אֶשְׁתָּא֥וֹל), and Zoreah, and Ashnah,
• Joshua 19:41 — And the coast of their inheritance was Zorah, and Eshtaol (וְאֶשְׁתָּא֖וֹל), and Ir-shemesh,
• Judges 13:25 — And the Spirit of the LORD began to move him at times in the camp of Dan between Zorah and Eshtaol (אֶשְׁתָּאֹֽל).
• Judges 16:31 — Then his brethren and all the house of his father came down, and took him, and brought him up, and buried him between Zorah and Eshtaol (אֶשְׁתָּאֹ֔ל) in the buryingplace of Manoah his father. And he judged Israel twenty years.
• Judges 18:2 — And the children of Dan sent of their family five men from their coasts, men of valour, from Zorah, and from Eshtaol (וּמֵֽאֶשְׁתָּאֹ֗ל), to spy out the land, and to search it; and they said unto them, Go, search the land: who when they came to mount Ephraim, to the house of Micah, they lodged there.
• Judges 18:8 — And they came unto their brethren to Zorah and Eshtaol (וְאֶשְׁתָּאֹ֑ל): and their brethren said unto them, What say ye?
• Judges 18:11 — And there went from thence of the family of the Danites, out of Zorah and out of Eshtaol (וּמֵאֶשְׁתָּאֹ֑ל), six hundred men appointed with weapons of war.