Bible Names

Elon: meaning of the name

Elon means “oak; grove; strong.”
Hitchcock's Bible Names Dictionary (1869)boy name

Elon in Hebrew and Greek

אֵילוֹן H356

ʼÊylôwn (ay-lone') — Elon, the name of a place in Palestine, and also of one Hittite, two Israelites

or (shortened) אֵלוֹן ; or אֵילֹן ; from H352 (אַיִל); oak-grove;

People named Elon in the Bible

Places named Elon

Elon in Scripture

“Elon” appears in 8 verses of the King James Version.

  • Genesis 26:34

    And Esau was forty years old when he took to wife Judith the daughter of Beeri the Hittite, and Bashemath the daughter of Elon the Hittite:

  • Genesis 36:2

    Esau took his wives of the daughters of Canaan; Adah the daughter of Elon the Hittite, and Aholibamah the daughter of Anah the daughter of Zibeon the Hivite;

  • Genesis 46:14

    And the sons of Zebulun; Sered, and Elon, and Jahleel.

  • Numbers 26:26

    Of the sons of Zebulun after their families: of Sered, the family of the Sardites: of Elon, the family of the Elonites: of Jahleel, the family of the Jahleelites.

  • Joshua 19:43

    And Elon, and Thimnathah, and Ekron,

  • Judges 12:11

    And after him Elon, a Zebulonite, judged Israel; and he judged Israel ten years.

  • Judges 12:12

    And Elon the Zebulonite died, and was buried in Aijalon in the country of Zebulun.

  • 1 Kings 4:9

    The son of Dekar, in Makaz, and in Shaalbim, and Beth–shemesh, and Elon–beth–hanan: