Enciclopedia Cattolica

Aijalon (Hebrew, from root 'Ajjāl "Deer", nearly "Place of Deer")

AIALON (EBRAICO, DALLA RADICE 'AJJĀL «CERVO», QUASI «LUOGO DEI CERVI»)

Volume I · p. 371 · 1948

English translation · Testo originale italiano

Machine translation of the 1948–1954 Italian original. The original text is authoritative.

AIALON (Hebrew, from the root 'ajjāl “stag,” approximately “place of the stags”). — 1. Amorite city (Iudc. 1:35), called Ajalāna or Jalāna in the el-Amarna letters, and Ajīrum in Egyptian documents. Mentioned for the first time in connection with the miracle of the sun (Ios. 10:12), it was assigned first to the tribe of Dan (Ios. 19:42), then to the Levites (Ios. 21:24). Fortified by Roboam (II Par. 11:10), it was taken by the Philistines under Achaz (ibid. 28:18); after this occupation, information about this city is lacking. It is identified with Jalo, 4 km west of Amvas (Emmaus-Nicopolis; St Jerome, Onomast., 19).

2. City of the tribe of Zabulon (Iudc. 12:12), of uncertain identification. Gaetano M. Perrella

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“AIALON (EBRAICO, DALLA RADICE 'AJJĀL «CERVO», QUASI «LUOGO DEI CERVI»).” Enciclopedia Cattolica, vol. I (1948), p. 371. Azione Romana digital edition, https://azioneromana.com/article/aialon-ebraico-dalla-radice-ajjal-cervo-quasi-luogo-dei-cervi.