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 · H2497
che.lon — Helon
A man living at the time of Egypt and Wilderness, first mentioned at Num.1.9; father of: Eliab (H0446) § Helon = "strength" father of Eliab of the tribe of Zebulun
5 tagged verse occurrences · see every occurrence →HEBREW / ARAMAIC · H446
e.li.av — Eliab
A man living at the time of Egypt and Wilderness, first mentioned at Num.1.9; son of: Helon (H2497) § Eliab = "my God is father" or "God is father" 1) son of Helon, leader of Zebulun in the wilderness 2) a Reubenite chief, father of Dathan and Abiram 3) David's oldest brother 4) a Levite musician 5) a Gadite warrior for David 6) a Kohathite
20 tagged verse occurrences · see every occurrence →GREEK · G3785
ophelon — I wish!
ὄφελον 2 aorist of ὀφείλω, without the augment (see M, Pr., 201n), used to express a fruitless wish; [in LXX (with aor. indic.): Exo.16:3 (נָתַן מִי), Num.14:2 Num.20:3 (לוּא), Psa.119:5 (אַחֲלַי), etc. ;] in cl. with an infin. (chiefly poët.), would that: with indic. aor., 1Co.4:8; impf., 2Co.11:1, Rev.3:15; fut., Gal.5:12 (a practicable wish, see 131., 206 f., 220. The construction with indic. is only found in late writers.)† (AS)
4 tagged verse occurrences · see every occurrence →GREEK · G5341
phelonēs, phailonēs — cloak
φελόνης (Rec. φαιλ-), -ου, ὁ by metath. for παινόλης (also φενόλης, φαινόλιον; Lat. pænula) a cloak (see DCG, i, 338; on the idea that the meaning here is book-cover, see CGT, in l; Milligan, NTD, 20; Field, Notes, 217 f., where the view that the φ. here is an eccl. vestment is discussed): 2Ti.4:13.† (AS)
1 tagged verse occurrence · see every occurrence →Strong, father of Eliab, who was “captain of the children of Zebulun” (Num. 1:9; 2:7).
Source: Easton’s Bible Dictionary (1897). Historical dictionary wording reflects the scholarship and language of its era.
