Encyclopedia of The Bible – Ezel
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Ezel

EZEL ē’ zəl (אֵ֖צֶל). According to MT of 1 Samuel 20:19, the name of a stone (so KJV). But LXX (and RSV) understand this as a mistake for “yonder cairn,” a reading requiring only the transposition of two letters in Heb.