e.lah denotes an oak, appearing as a physical tree used for shelter, burial, and imagery of decline or survival.

The term denotes an oak as a physical tree: people sit or act beneath it, bodies or objects are placed under it, and Absalom is caught in one. The same tree provides imagery for withering leaves and for a felled trunk whose stump remains.

1. Oak as a tree in setting and imagery · dominant

   The feminine singular absolute form identifies a tree under which figures sit or act: in Judges 6:11 the APB renders the messenger sitting “under the oak,” and in Genesis 35:4 Jacob hides the foreign gods beneath it. In 2 Samuel 18:9 the APB renders Absalom's head caught in the oak, while Isaiah 1:30 and Isaiah 6:13 use an oak's withering leaf and remaining stump as imagery.

   Judges 6:11Genesis 35:42 Samuel 18:92 Samuel 18:10Isaiah 1:30Isaiah 6:13

In the Anselm Paraphrase: Across the occurrences, the APB regularly presents the term as “oak,” including locations “under the oak,” Absalom hanging in it, and the images of a withering oak and an oak's stump. Because the paraphrase is not word-aligned, these renderings confirm the verse-level presentation rather than isolate every individual token.