EGLON (egion), (Heb.
1. A Moabite king who, assisted by the Am monites and Arnaleknes subdued the Israelites be yond the Jordan, and the southern tribes un this side the river, and made Jericho the seat, or one of the seats, of his government (B. C. t527).
This subjection to a power always present must have been more galling to the Israelites than any they had previously suffered, It lasted eighteen years, when ( B. C. 13°9) they were delivered, through the instrumentality of Ehud, who slew the :%Inabitish king ( Judg. 14, 15). (See En mi.) 2. A city of Judah ( (Josh. :3; xv :39). in the low country. It was one of the five cities which joined in a confederacy with Adonizedek. king of Jernsalem. in attacking Giheon. Eglon was afterwards visited by Joshua and destroyed. The modern Ajlan is doubtless the site of the city.
EGOZ (Cgoz), (Ileb. ez-o3'). This word
occurs in the Song of Solomon, vi• 'I went into the garden of nuts,' where probably 'walnuts' are intended.
The Hebrew name is evidently the same as the Persian gowc., which has been converted by the Arabs into jozez.., by a process common in the case of many other words beginning with the inter changeable letters gal and Jim. In both languages these words, when they stand alone, signify the walnut, gouz-bun being the walnut-tree. It Is more than probable that, if not indigenous in Syria, it was introduced there at a still earlier period, and that therefore it may be alluded to in the above passage, more especially as Solo mon has said, 'I made me gardens and orchards, and planted trees in them of all kinds of fruits' (Eccles. ii :5). (See Ntrrs.) J. F. R.