# אֵלָה (elah)

Israeli respelling: e-lah. Hear on Google uses modern Hebrew.

Strong’s H424. 12 Old Testament occurrences.

an oak or other strong tree

King James renderings: elm, oak, teil-tree.

Lexicon: Strong’s Hebrew, public domain. The derived file is shared under CC BY-SA 4.0.

Canonical: https://apologetics.wiki/bible/hebrew/elah-h424

## Occurrences

- [Genesis 35:4](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/genesis/35/4) — 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…
- [Judges 6:11](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/judges/6/11) — 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…
- [Judges 6:19](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/judges/6/19) — 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…
- [2 Samuel 18:9](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/2-samuel/18/9) — 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…
- [2 Samuel 18:10](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/2-samuel/18/10) — And a certain man saw it, and told Joab, and said, Behold, I saw Absalom hanged in an oak.
- [2 Samuel 18:14](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/2-samuel/18/14) — 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…
- [1 Kings 13:14](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/1-kings/13/14) — 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? An…
- [1 Chronicles 10:12](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/1-chronicles/10/12) — 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 b…
- [Isaiah 1:30](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/isaiah/1/30) — For ye shall be as an oak whose leaf fadeth, and as a garden that hath no water.
- [Isaiah 6:13](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/isaiah/6/13) — 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 th…
- [Ezekiel 6:13](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/ezekiel/6/13) — 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 a…
- [Hosea 4:13](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/hosea/4/13) — They sacrifice upon the tops of the mountains, and burn incense upon the hills, under oaks and poplars and elms, because the shadow thereof…