Extended Strong's Hebrew Lexicon (Brown-Driver-Briggs based)
oak
Usage: 1) terebinth, terebinth tree 2) valley where David killed Goliath
Elah means “oak” — full meaning, definition, and every linked Bible usage across the indexed canon.
Same number, other testament: Strong's G424 — anerchomai (“go up”) in the Greek Bible.
Strong's H424 אֵלָה (elah) is a Hebrew Strong's word-study entry. elah (ay-law') n-f. 1. an oak or other strong tree [feminine of H352] It has 12 linked Bible usages across 8 books. Visible English usage signals include oak and oaks. Indexed coverage on this page includes Old Testament.
elah (ay-law') n-f. 1. an oak or other strong tree [feminine of H352] KJV: elm, oak, teil-tree. Root(s): H352
How independent scholarly lexicons define Strong's H424. Each definition is shown with its source so you can compare and cite the original reference works.
oak
Usage: 1) terebinth, terebinth tree 2) valley where David killed Goliath
The English word each shown verse actually uses to render elah, taken from the interlinear word alignment (the same word underlined in the excerpts below). Where a rendering is used more than once, the count is shown.
Indexed coverage includes Old Testament. Each section below keeps corpus counts and sample passages visible so readers can compare the word across contexts instead of reading one flat concordance list.
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12 indexed usages in Old Testament.
And they gave unto Jacob all the strange gods which were in their hand, and all their earrings which were in their ears; and Jacob hid them under the oak which was by Shechem.
And there came an angel of the LORD, and sat under an oak which was in Ophrah, that pertained unto Joash the Abiezrite: and his son Gideon threshed wheat by the winepress, to hide it from the Midianites.
And Gideon went in, and made ready a kid, and unleavened cakes of an ephah of flour: the flesh he put in a basket, and he put the broth in a pot, and brought it out unto him under the oak, and presented it.
First 12 linked usage excerpts for Strong's H424.
And they gave unto Jacob all the strange gods which were in their hand, and all their earrings which were in their ears; and Jacob hid them under the oak which was by Shechem.
And there came an angel of the LORD, and sat under an oak which was in Ophrah, that pertained unto Joash the Abiezrite: and his son Gideon threshed wheat by the winepress, to hide it from the Midianites.
And Gideon went in, and made ready a kid, and unleavened cakes of an ephah of flour: the flesh he put in a basket, and he put the broth in a pot, and brought it out unto him under the oak, and presented it.
And Absalom met the servants of David. And Absalom rode upon a mule, and the mule went under the thick boughs of a great oak, and his head caught hold of the oak, and he was taken up between the heaven and the earth; and the mule that was under him went away.
And a certain man saw it, and told Joab, and said, Behold, I saw Absalom hanged in an oak.
Then said Joab, I may not tarry thus with thee. And he took three darts in his hand, and thrust them through the heart of Absalom, while he was yet alive in the midst of the oak.
And went after the man of God, and found him sitting under an oak: and he said unto him, Art thou the man of God that camest from Judah? And he said, I am.
They arose, all the valiant men, and took away the body of Saul, and the bodies of his sons, and brought them to Jabesh, and buried their bones under the oak in Jabesh, and fasted seven days.
For ye shall be as an oak whose leaf fadeth, and as a garden that hath no water.
But yet in it shall be a tenth, and it shall return, and shall be eaten: as a teil tree, and as an oak, whose substance is in them, when they cast their leaves: so the holy seed shall be the substance thereof.
Then shall ye know that I am the LORD, when their slain men shall be among their idols round about their altars, upon every high hill, in all the tops of the mountains, and under every green tree, and under every thick oak, the place where they did offer sweet savour to all their idols.
They sacrifice upon the tops of the mountains, and burn incense upon the hills, under oaks and poplars and elms, because the shadow thereof is good: therefore your daughters shall commit whoredom, and your spouses shall commit adultery.
Every indexed verse link for Strong's H424, grouped by book.
Elah (Strong's H424) is a Hebrew word most simply glossed "oak". elah (ay-law') n-f. 1. an oak or other strong tree [feminine of H352]
This page currently indexes 12 linked usages for Strong's H424 across 8 books.
Use the linked verse references on this page to study Strong's H424 in context. The indexed coverage includes Old Testament.
The visible usage excerpts most often surface English words such as oak and oaks. These are scanning signals from the displayed verses, not replacements for the original-language definition.