אֶשְׁתָּאוֹל
esh.ta.ol
Eshtaol
Lexicon Entry
Lexicon data from STEPBible TIPNR, Tyndale House, Cambridge. Licensed under CC BY 4.0.
What Original Readers Understood
ExploredThe word "Eshtaol" (אֶשְׁתָּאוֹל) is a proper name with a specific personal reference in the Hebrew Bible. It appears 7 times, making it a recurring place or person of interest within the scriptures. As a proper name, "Eshtaol" likely functions as an identifier for an individual or a family, similar to how we use names today. Given its appearance in the Bible and its classification as a proper name, it is reasonable to assume that "Eshtaol" plays a significant role within its specific context. The frequency of its occurrence (7 times) suggests that it is a notable figure or location, possibly even a prominent leader or ancestral reference. However, without further information on its specific usage and context, we cannot definitively determine the scope or depth of its significance. Its function as a proper name alone implies its importance within the narratives where it appears.
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Occurrences in Scripture
7 total occurrences across the text
In the lowland, Eshtaol, Zorah, Ashnah,
Joshua 19:41The border of their inheritance was Zorah, Eshtaol, Irshemesh,
Judges 13:25Yahweh’s Spirit began to move him in Mahaneh Dan, between Zorah and Eshtaol.
Judges 16:31Then his brothers and all the house of his father came down and took him, and brought him up and buried him between Zorah and Eshtaol in the burial site of Manoah his father. He judged Israel twenty years.
Judges 18:2The children of Dan sent five men of their family from their whole number, men of valor, from Zorah and from Eshtaol, to spy out the land and to search it. They said to them, “Go, explore the land!” They came to the hill country of Ephraim, to the house of Micah, and lodged there.
Judges 18:8They came to their brothers at Zorah and Eshtaol; and their brothers asked them, “What do you say?”
Judges 18:11The family of the Danites set out from Zorah and Eshtaol with six hundred men armed with weapons of war.