Elon (Judge living before Israel's Monarchy)

Elon, Hebrew for "oak," is applied in the Old Testament to one place and several distinct men. It names a town allotted to the tribe of Dan (Joshua 19:43); a Hittite whose daughter Basemath married Esau (Genesis 26:34; 36:2); one of the sons of Zebulun who founded the clan of the Elonites (Genesis 46:14; Numbers 26:26); and Elon the Zebulunite, a minor judge who led Israel for ten years and was buried in his own territory (Judges 12:11-12).