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Eglon

A king of Moab, who oppressed the Israelites, and was slain by Ehud, Judges iii, 14, 21. It is thought to have been a common name of the kings of Moab, as Abimelech was of the Philistines. Eglon is rendered in the installed Bible Names resource as “same as Eglah.” This unified study connects 8 installed resource categories without replacing their source records.

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  • Historical Reference: Nave’s Topical Bible — Public domain
  • Historical Reference: Hitchcock’s Bible Names Dictionary (1869)
  • Historical Reference: Hitchcock's Bible Names Dictionary
  • Historical Reference: A Biblical and Theological Dictionary
  • Historical Reference: concordance
  • Historical Reference: Installed reference work
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Subject type
Subject
Strong’s
H5700
Hebrew
עֶגְלוֹן · ʻEglôwn
Name meaning
same as Eglah According to Hitchcock's Bible Names Dictionary

Strong’s and original-language information

Strong’s Hebrew and Greek Lexicon

עֶגְלוֹן

H5700
Transliteration
ʻEglôwn
Pronunciation
eg-lawn'
Language
Hebrew
Indexed occurrences
13

Glosses

Eglon.

Lexicon definition

Eglon, the name of a place in Palestine and of a Moabitish king

Greek lexical coverage

No safely matched Greek Strong’s entry

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Complete dictionary entries

Hitchcock's Bible Names Dictionary

Eglon

same as Eglah

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A Biblical and Theological Dictionary

EGLON

a king of Moab, who oppressed the Israelites, and was slain by Ehud, Judges iii, 14, 21. It is thought to have been a common name of the kings of Moab, as Abimelech was of the Philistines.

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Concordance

Strong's Concordance

Eglon

Indexed occurrences: 14

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All Scripture references14 references

Joshua 9

Joshua 10:3Joshua 10:5Joshua 10:23Joshua 10:34Joshua 10:35Joshua 10:36Joshua 10:37Joshua 12:12Joshua 15:39

Judges 5

Judges 3:12Judges 3:13Judges 3:14Judges 3:15Judges 3:17

Topical Bible

Bible Names

Hitchcock's Bible Names Dictionary

Eglon

Meaning:
same as Eglah

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Sources

Ancient Context1 items

Josephus Antiquities Whiston

How Our People Served The Moabites Eighteen Years, And Were Then Delivered From Slavery By One Ehud Who Retained The Dominion Eighty Years.

Antiquities Book 5, Chapter 4

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Topic

EGLON

Nave’s Topical Bible references for EGLON.

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Dictionary

Eglon

same as Eglah

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Dictionary

Seirath

Woody district; shaggy, a place among the mountains of Ephraim, bordering on Benjamin, to which Ehud fled after he had assassinated Eglon at Jericho (Judg. 3:26, 27).

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