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Strong's #5700 - עֶגְלוֹן
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Eglon = “calf-like”
1) king of Moab who oppressed the children of Israel for 18 years before he was killed by the judge Ehud (noun proper masculine)
2) a royal city in Canaan that opposed the conquest; located in the low lands of Judah (noun proper locative)
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1. masculine a king of Moab, Judges 3:12,14,15,17 (twice in verse), ᵐ5 Εγλωμ. 2
location Joshua 10:3,5,23,37; Joshua 12:12; Joshua 15:34, with ה locative Joshua 10:34, מֵעֶגְלוֺ֫נָה Joshua 10:36; ᵐ5 Οδολλαμ Joshua 10; Αιλαμ Joshua 12:12, A Εγλωμ, ᵐ5 Εγλων, and so Joshua 15:39; site ±A³lân, North of Tele-el-–esy, Buhl Geogr. 192.
עֶגְלַ֫יִם Ezekiel 47:10 in ׳עֵין ע q. v.
עֶגְלוֹן (q.d. “vitulinus”), [Eglon], pr.n.
(1) of a king of Moab, Judges 3:12.
(2) of a town in the lower country of the tribe of Judah, formerly a royal city of the Canaanites, Joshua 10:3, 12:12 15:39 [prob. now ʾAjlan, عجلان Rob. ii. 392].