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Strong's #5700: `Eglown (pronounced eg-lawn')

from 5695; vituline; Eglon, the name of a place in Palestine and of a Moabitish king:--Eglon.




Brown-Driver-Briggs Hebrew Lexicon:

‛eglôn

Eglon = "calf-like"

1) king of Moab who oppressed the children of Israel for 18 years before he was killed by the judge Ehud (noun proper masculine)

2) a royal city in Canaan that opposed the conquest; located in the low lands of Judah (noun proper locative)

Part of Speech: see above in Definition

Relation: from H5695



Usage:

This word is used 13 times:

Joshua 10:3: "and unto Debir king of Eglon, saying,"
Joshua 10:5: "the king of Lachish, the king of Eglon, gathered themselves together, and went up, they and all"
Joshua 10:23: "of Lachish, and the king of Eglon."
Joshua 10:34: "And from Lachish Joshua passed unto Eglon, and all Israel with"
Joshua 10:36: "And Joshua went up from Eglon, and all Israel with him, unto Hebron;"
Joshua 10:37: "according to all that he had done to Eglon; but destroyed it utterly, and all the souls that"
Joshua 12:12: "The king of Eglon, one; the king of Gezer, one;"
Joshua 15:39: "Lachish, and Bozkath, and Eglon,"
Judges 3:12: "and the LORD strengthened Eglon the king of Moab against Israel,"
Judges 3:14: "of Israel served Eglon the king of Moab eighteen"
Judges 3:15: "left-handed: and by him the children of Israel sent a present unto Eglon the king"
Judges 3:17: "And he brought the present unto Eglon king of Moab: and Eglon was a very"
Judges 3:17: "unto Eglon king of Moab: and Eglon was a very fat man."









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