This is the name of the place Eshtaol: City allotted to Judah and Dan; associated with Samson.
Definition
or אֶשְׁתָּאוֹל; probably from H7592; intreaty; Eshtaol, a place in Palestine
Traditional renderings: Eshtaol.
Traditional renderings: Eshtaol.
Glossary entries
Where it occurs
Occurrences
7 total
- Joshua 15:33אֶשְׁתָּא֥וֹל · EshtaolThese were in the foothills: Eshtaol, Zorah, Ashnah,
- Joshua 19:41וְאֶשְׁתָּא֖וֹל · EshtaolThe territory of their inheritance included Zorah, Eshtaol, Ir-shemesh,
- Judges 13:25אֶשְׁתָּאֹֽל׃פ · and EshtaolAnd the Spirit of the LORD began to stir him at Mahaneh-dan, between Zorah and Eshtaol.
- Judges 16:31אֶשְׁתָּאֹ֔ל · and EshtaolThen Samson’s brothers and his father’s family came down, carried him back, and buried him between Zorah and Eshtaol in the tomb of his father Manoah. And he had judged Israel twenty years.
- Judges 18:2וּמֵֽאֶשְׁתָּאֹ֗ל · and EshtaolSo the Danites sent out five men from their clans, men of valor from Zorah and Eshtaol, to spy out the land and explore it. “Go and explore the land,” they told them. The men entered the hill country of Ephraim and came to the house of Micah, where they spent the night.
- Judges 18:8וְאֶשְׁתָּאֹ֑ל · and EshtaolWhen the men returned to Zorah and Eshtaol, their brothers asked them, “What did you find?”
- Judges 18:11וּמֵאֶשְׁתָּאֹ֑ל · and EshtaolSo six hundred Danites departed from Zorah and Eshtaol, armed with weapons of war.