Can anyone explain the reference to the name ‘Jalon in the Bible’?

[SummerBreeze]

Dear All,

I have come across the name Jalon and am trying to research the reference to this name in the Bible.   Also, is it from the ‘Old Testament’ or the ‘New Testament’? 

So far I have come across a couple of theories; one being that, Jalon is from the New Testament and the name represents the five wounds of Jesus Christ.   The other is that, Jalon was the forth son of Ezra (or Ezrah) and is from the Old Testament.   

I am looking for any background information to this name and its origin.  Any help with reference sources that I could look up would be really handy too.

Any theology experts around?  Please help!

Hope to hear back from you soon.  Thanks.

SummerBreeze
 

[airIam2worship]

Hello Summer, welcome to CU 

While I don't consider myself to be a theologist, I do have some Bible tools that help me to find some information. After doing a little bit of reseach this is what I found

1Ch 4:17 And the sons of Ezra were, Jether, and Mered, and Epher, and Jalon: and she bare Miriam, and Shammai, and Ishbah the father of Eshtemoa.

JFB

     17, 18. she bare Miriam--It is difficult, as the verses stand at present, to see who is meant. The following readjustment of the text clears away the obscurity: "These are the sons of Bithiah the daughter of Pharaoh, which Mered took, and she bare Miriam, and his wife Jehudijah bare Jezreel,"

Hitchcock's Bible Names

Jalon
 
tarrying; murmuring


those were the only references I found for that name in the Bible. Keep in mind that the Miriam mention in this verse is not Miriam the sister of Moses and Aaron.

I hope this will help you.

[Soldier4Christ]

Hi SummerBreeze,

Welcome to Christians Unite. I hope you will join us in some great Christian fellowship.

Jalon has it's roots in the Hebrew word Yalon, sometimes spelled Yalown. It is found in the Old Testament in 1Ch 4:17  "And the sons of Ezra were, Jether, and Mered, and Epher, and Jalon: and she bare Miriam, and Shammai, and Ishbah the father of Eshtemoa." (King James Version)

According to the Strong's Dictionary this word means "Jehovah lodges". The Hebrew Lexicon says it means "passing the night", "tarrying", "murmuring". In the Hebrew language one word can take on different meanings depending on how it is used. In this case the word can mean any of the above.

[SummerBreeze]

Hi airIam2worship

Thank for welcoming me and getting back to me.  I appreciate that you are not a theology expert but I was looking for help from anybody who came across this name and its origin.

Thanks for the research provided.  I had searched the Christian Unite website for the same and had come across 1 Chronicles 4, Verse 17, that you have also listed but was unclear what it meant and I failed to understand the significance of Ezra?!  In that, who she was?   

Thank you for throwing some light on the same.  However, if the Miriam mentioned in this verse is not the sister of Moses and Aaron, does this mean that this Miriam and therefore Jalon, is not from the Old Testament?   

Please help if you can. 

Please see my posting to Pastor Roger regarding this too.  Thanks.

Summer


Hi Pastor Roger

Thank you too for welcoming me and throwing some light on the name and its possible origin.   But from the response I have got thus far, I am beginning to think  that ‘Jalon’ may quite possibly be a name from the Old Testament?  Will I be right in thinking that….if so, could the name be of Jewish origin?

Please help if you can.   

We are of Catholic faith and a member of my family plans to call their new born Jalon as they think this name originated from the wounds of Christ and from the New Testament.

Summer

[Soldier4Christ]

1 Chronicles 4: 17 is in the Old Testament so yes it is Old Testament. airIam2worship is correct, this is not the same Miriam as the sister of Moses. In the Old Testament we see several people mentioned with the same names such as Enoch, There are two different Enoch's mentioned in the book of Genesis. One is a descendant of Seth and the other a Descendant of Cain.

The OT is the only place that Jalon is mentioned. Although the prophecy of Jesus and the cross can be found in several places in the OT the verse about Jalon is not one of them, so I do not know where they could have gotten the connection between Jalon and the wounds of Christ. You might want to ask them how and where they came to that conclusion.

[airIam2worship]

Summer I am trying to remember the name of Moses' and Miriam's mother, it's on the tip of my tongue, keep in mind that Moses lived and died before the Isealites entered into the land of Cannan. Miriam the sister of Moses did not get to enter into the promised land, neither did Moses or Aaron, the only 2 that did were Caleb and Joshua of all that were over 20 years of age before entering the pormised land.

They are not the same person. As far as I can see there is no mention of Jalon in the new testament at all and the only reference to Jalon in the Bible that I found was the verse I posted. I am trying to remember the name of Moses' mother, when I find it or remember it I will let you know. As for Ezra

This is the meaning

Hitchcock Bible Names

Ezra
 
help; court

Easton Bible Dictionary

Ezra
 
help. (1.) A priest among those that returned to Jerusalem under Zerubabel (Ne 12:1).
 
(2.) The "scribe" who led the second body of exiles that returned from Babylon to Jerusalem B.C. 459, and author of the book of Scripture which bears his name. He was the son, or perhaps grandson, of Seraiah (2Ki 25:18-21), and a lineal descendant of Phinehas, the son of Aaron (Ezr 7:1-5). All we know of his personal history is contained in the last four chapters of his book, and in Ne 8:1-18 and Ne 12:26.
 
In the seventh year of the reign of Artaxerxes Longimanus (see Darius), he obtained leave to go up to Jerusalem and to take with him a company of Israelites (Ezr 8:1-36). Artaxerxes manifested great interest in Ezra's undertaking, granting him "all his request," and loading him with gifts for the house of God. Ezra assembled the band of exiles, probably about 5,000 in all, who were prepared to go up with him to Jerusalem, on the banks of the Ahava, where they rested for three days, and were put into order for their march across the desert, which was completed in four months. His proceedings at Jerusalem on his arrival there are recorded in his book.
 
He was "a ready scribe in the law of Moses," who "had prepared his heart to seek the law of the Lord and to do it, and to teach in Israel statutes and judgments." "He is," says Professor Binnie, "the first well-defined example of an order of men who have never since ceased in the church; men of sacred erudition, who devote their lives to the study of the Holy Scriptures, in order that they may be in a condition to interpret them for the instruction and edification of the church. It is significant that the earliest mention of the pulpit occurs in the history of Ezra's ministry (Ne 8:4). He was much more of a teacher than a priest. We learn from the account of his labours in the book of Nehemiah that he was careful to have the whole people instructed in the law of Moses; and there is no reason to reject the constant tradition of the Jews which connects his name with the collecting and editing of the Old Testament canon. The final completion of the canon may have been, and probably was, the work of a later generation; but Ezra seems to have put it much into the shape in which it is still found in the Hebrew Bible. When it is added that the complete organization of the synagogue dates from this period, it will be seen that the age was emphatically one of Biblical study" (The Psalms: their History, etc.).
 
For about fourteen years, i.e., till B.C. 445, we have no record of what went on in Jerusalem after Ezra had set in order the ecclesiastical and civil affairs of the nation. In that year another distinguished personage, Nehemiah, appears on the scene. After the ruined wall of the city had been built by Nehemiah, there was a great gathering of the people at Jerusalem preparatory to the dedication of the wall. On the appointed day the whole population assembled, and the law was read aloud to them by Ezra and his assistants (Ne 8:3). The remarkable scene is described in detail. There was a great religious awakening. For successive days they held solemn assemblies, confessing their sins and offering up solemn sacrifices. They kept also the feast of Tabernacles with great solemnity and joyous enthusiasm, and then renewed their national covenant to be the Lord's. Abuses were rectified, and arrangements for the temple service completed, and now nothing remained but the dedication of the walls of the city (Ne 12:1-47

[SummerBreeze]

Dear Pastor Roger

Thank you Pastor Roger.

I will ask my family member how they came across the name Jalon and subsequently, that it means/represents the five wounds of Jesus Christ.  Clearly, you are a Christian Gold member for the World Christian Unite site and have an in depth understanding of the Bible both Old and New Testament.  I can only gather from the information you have written and researched thus far that the name Jalon, is indeed from the Old Testament and has no bearing to the wounds of Christ and is therefore not mentioned in the New Testament.

I too have been researching and contacting various people of the Christian faith and none of the resources I have pursued, have any knowledge of Jalon in the New Testament or of representing the wounds of Jesus Christ.   

Thank you for your time and the information provided.

Summer

[Soldier4Christ]

Your most welcome Summer. If you don't mind I would be very curious as to what you find out from the family that plans to use this name as to how they came about with their information.


Sister Maria, Jochebed the wife of Amram is the mother of Moses, Aaron and Miriam.

[airIam2worship]

Hi again Summer, I finally got the name of Moses' parents, his father was Amram and his mother was Jochobed.

[airIam2worship]

Hi again Summer, I finally got the name of Moses' parents, his father was Amram and his mother was Jochobed.

Yes PR I finally found it I was having a 'senior moment' 

[SummerBreeze]

Hi airIam2worship

Thank for all the information you have provided regarding the name Jalon and its possible origin.  As mentioned to Pastor Roger, it looks like this name is from the Old Testament but that too, no relation to Moses and Aron and most definitely has no bearings on the wounds of Christ and is therefore quite possibly Jewish.   

Thanks for Moses' mothers and fathers name.  I think Pastor Roger beat you to it by a few minutes! 

Summer

[airIam2worship]

Yes he did!!!!

But that's ok he gets his 'senior moments' now and again and again too 

It would be nice to know the response from your family members if it's ok with you, Summer