hō´lon ( חלן , ḥōlōn or חלון , ḥōwlōn ): (1) One of the towns in the hill country of Judah (Joshua 15:51 ) assigned to the Levites Joshua 21:15 ). In 1 Chronicles 6:58 (Hebrew 43), it is HILEN (which see). The site may be the important ruins of Beit ‛Alam (see PEF , III, 313, 321, Sh XXI ). (2) Probably once an important town in the "plain," i.e. plateau, of Moab (Jeremiah 48:21 ); the site is unknown.
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