Bible Names

Pelonite: meaning of the name

Pelonite means “falling; secret.”
Hitchcock's Bible Names Dictionary (1869)

Pelonite in Hebrew and Greek

פְּלוֹנִי H6397

Pᵉlôwnîy (pel-o-nee') — a Pelonite or inhabitant of an unknown Palon

patronymically from an unused name (from H6395 (פָּלָה)) meaning separate;

Pelonite in Scripture

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

  • 1 Chronicles 11:27

    Shammoth the Harorite, Helez the Pelonite,

  • 1 Chronicles 11:36

    Hepher the Mecherathite, Ahijah the Pelonite,

  • 1 Chronicles 27:10

    The seventh captain for the seventh month was Helez the Pelonite, of the children of Ephraim: and in his course were twenty and four thousand.