Bible Characters & Character Studies
Allon
First appears at Joshua 19:33
First named in Scripture at Joshua 19:33 — read the chapter.
From Easton’s Bible Dictionary (1897)
oak. (1.) The expression in the Authorized Version of Joshua 19:33, “from Allon to Zaanannim,” is more correctly rendered in the Revised Version, “from the oak in Zaanannim.” The word denotes some remarkable tree which stood near Zaanannim, and which served as a landmark. (2.) The son of Jedaiah, of the family of the Simeonites, who expelled the Hamites from the valley of Gedor (1 Chronicles 4:37).
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