Bible Names

Ajalon: meaning of the name

Ajalon means “a chain; strength; a stag.”
Hitchcock's Bible Names Dictionary (1869)

Ajalon in Hebrew and Greek

אַיָּלוֹן H357

ʼAyâlôwn (ah-yaw-lone') — Ajalon, the name of five places in Palestine

from H354 (אַיָּל); deer-field;

Ajalon in Scripture

“Ajalon” appears in 3 verses of the King James Version.

  • Joshua 10:12

    Then spake Joshua to the Lord in the day when the Lord delivered up the Amorites before the children of Israel, and he said in the sight of Israel, Sun, stand thou still upon Gibeon; and thou, Moon, in the valley of Ajalon.

  • Joshua 19:42

    And Shaalabbin, and Ajalon, and Jethlah,

  • 2 Chronicles 28:18

    The Philistines also had invaded the cities of the low country, and of the south of Judah, and had taken Beth–shemesh, and Ajalon, and Gederoth, and Shocho with the villages thereof, and Timnah with the villages thereof, Gimzo also and the villages thereof: and they dwelt there.