Atlas  Ono and surrounding area Maps Created using Biblemapper 3.0 Additional data from OpenBible.info Occurrences 1 Chronicles 8:12 The sons of Elpaal: Eber, and Misham, and Shemed, who built Ono and Lod, with its towns;Ezra 2:33 The children of Lod, Hadid, and Ono, seven hundred twenty-five. Nehemiah 6:2 that Sanballat and Geshem sent to me, saying, Come, let us meet together in one of the villages in the plain of Ono. But they thought to do me mischief. Nehemiah 7:37 The children of Lod, Hadid, and Ono, seven hundred twenty-one. Nehemiah 11:35 Lod, and Ono, the valley of craftsmen. Encyclopedia ONOo'-no ('ono; Codex Vaticanus Onan; Codex Alexandrinus Ono, and other forms): A town mentioned along with Lod as fortified by certain Benjamites (1 Chronicles 8:12). The Mishna (Arakhin ix.6) says that Joshua fortified it, but there is no such early notice of it in Scripture. It was occupied by Benjamites after the return from exile (Ezra 2:33 Nehemiah 7:37; Nehemiah 11:35). In one of the villages in the plain of Ono, Sanballat and his friends vainly tried to inveigle Nehemiah into a conference (6:2). It is represented by the modern Kefr `Ana, which lies to the Northwest of Lydda. In 1 Esdras 5:22, the name appears as "Onus." O'NO, built by the sons of Benjamin but came into the district of Dan afterward. Now Ana, 5 ms. a little w. of n. from Lydda, 27 ms. n.w. from Jerusalem; 1 Chron. 8:12 and three other places. Strong's Hebrew H207: Ono"vigorous," a city in Benjamin |
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