Bible Location
Meaning: grief or strength or iniquity of him · 5 cross references · Modern-day map available
Ono was a town in the plain north-west of Jerusalem within the wider Benjaminite and post-exilic landscape. It is important because it appears in resettlement lists and in Nehemiah's account of attempts to lure him away from his work. First appears in 1 Chr 8:12.1
Place meaning
grief or strength or iniquity of him
Coordinates
32.02, 34.87
First appears
1 Chr 8:12
AI summary: Ono is a modest town whose significance becomes clear in the post-exilic period. Ezra and Nehemiah show it as part of the repopulated land, but its most vivid role comes when Sanballat and Tobiah repeatedly call Nehemiah to meet them there as part of a trap. That episode makes Ono a place associated with discernment, persistence, and refusal to be distracted from covenant work. The cross references present Ono as both a settled Benjaminite town and a stage for political pressure during Jerusalem's rebuilding.1
Place meaning
grief or strength or iniquity of him
Latitude
32.02
Longitude
34.87
Bible references
5
A town of Benjamin, in the “plain of Ono” (1 Chr. 8:12; Ezra 2:33); now Kefr ‘Ana, 5 miles north of Lydda, and about 30 miles north-west of Jerusalem. Not succeeding in their attempts to deter Nehemiah from rebuilding the walls of Jerusalem, Sanballat and Tobiah resorted to strategem, and pretending to wish a conference with him, they invited him to meet them at Ono. Four times they made the request, and every time Nehemiah refused to come. Their object was to take him prisoner. 3
Source note: this 1893 dictionary language reflects its period and may be culturally insensitive or outdated. It is presented as historical source material, not as ai-BIBLE’s language, interpretation, or endorsement.
AI-assisted summary prepared for ai-BIBLE and stored as page content, based on dictionary material, place metadata, and linked Bible cross references.
Alistair de Blacquiere-Clarkson, “ai-BIBLE Bible Names JSON Factsheet Aggregating Material from Smith’s Bible Dictionary & Hitcocks’s New and Complete Analysis of the Bible.” ai-BIBLE electronic edition, version 1.0.
M.G.Easton, Illustrated Bible Dictionary, ai-BIBLE electronic edition, version 1.0.
Robert Rouse, “Theographic Bible Information,” Theographic-Bible-Metadata, 2020, https://github.com/robertrouse/theographic-bible-metadata.