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Hitchcock's Bible Names Dictionary

Holon:

a window; grief

International Standard Bible Encyclopaedia

Holon:

ho'-lon (cholon or chowlon):

(1) One of the towns in the hill country of Judah (Jos 15:51) assigned to the Levites 21:15). In 1Ch 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 (Jer 48:21); the site is unknown.

Smith's Bible Dictionary

Holon:

(sandy).

(1.) A town in the mountains of Judah. One of the first group, of which Debir was apparently the most considerable (Joshua 15:51; 21:15). SEE [HILEN].

(2.) A city of Moab. Jeremiah 48:21 only. No identification of it has yet taken place.