Holon

Holon (Heb. 1) (חֹלוֹן ,חֹלֹן) was a priestly town in the Judean mountains (Josh. 15:51; 21:15; I Chron. 6:43-Hilen). Although some scholars identify it with Khirbat ʿAlīn, west of the Arab village of Beit Ummar (S.W. of Kefar Eẓyon), in Joshua 15:51 it is specifically located in the southern district of the Judean hill country.

(2) A locality in the high plain of *Moab, apparently 12 km. N.E. of Dibon, identified with ʿAliyūn (Jer. 48:21).

BIBLIOGRAPHY

Abel, Geog, 2 (1938), 349; EM; W.F. Albright, in: BASOR, 18 (1925), 9; idem, in: L. Ginsberg Jubilee Volume (1945).