BIBLE DICTIONARY + WORD STUDY
How to read this: there is rarely one magic “true meaning” hidden behind an English word. A lexicon records a word’s semantic range. The intended meaning is narrowed by grammar, sentence, author, historical usage and context.
HEBREW / ARAMAIC · H6753
tse.lel.po.ni — Hazzelelponi
A woman of the tribe of Judah living at the time of Egypt and Wilderness, only mentioned at 1Ch.4.3; daughter of: Hur (H2354); sister of: Uri (H0221), Shobal (H7732H), Salma (H8007H), Hareph (H2780), Jezreel (H3157J), Ishma (H3457), Idbash (H3031), Penuel (H6439H) and Ezer (H5829) § Hazelelponi = "facing the shade" sister of the sons of Etam in the genealogies of Judah
1 tagged verse occurrence · see every occurrence →Heb. luz, (Gen. 30:37), a nutbearing tree. The Hebrew word is rendered in the Vulgate by amygdalinus, “the almond-tree,” which is probably correct. That tree flourishes in Syria.
Source: Easton’s Bible Dictionary (1897). Historical dictionary wording reflects the scholarship and language of its era.
