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  • From: jimstinehart AT aol.com
  • To: if AT math.bu.edu
  • Cc: b-hebrew AT lists.ibiblio.org
  • Subject: Re: [b-hebrew] Mighty
  • Date: Wed, 11 May 2011 21:15:46 -0400


Isaac Fried:

You wrote:

“Not mighty but lofty.”

There were three small villages near “lofty” or “mighty” trees west of Bethel
whose names reflected those “lofty”, “mighty” trees, and which were
historically dominated by an Amorite princeling that the Bible aptly refers
to as Mamre. Here are the three village names:

1. )LWN. Allon. I Samuel 10: 3: Allon of Tabor. [This was the most
important village.]

2. )YLWN. Elon. Joshua 19: 43: Elon. [Not the famous city of Aijalon at
Joshua 19: 42. The tent-dwelling Patriarchs sojourned in a rural paradise,
not near a big city.]

3. )YLWN. Elon. I Kings 4: 29: Elon-Beth-Hanan.

The $64,000 question is: how does one refer to these three villages
dominated by Mamre, with their “lofty”, “mighty” names that refer to oak
trees, in masculine construct plural? How do you say “Allons/Elons of
Mamre”, with the accent on )LWN/Allon, in describing the Patriarchs’ favorite
place to sojourn in southern Canaan? Doesn’t Genesis 13: 18 say it all?

)LNY MMR)

Jim Stinehart
Evanston, Illinois



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