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# אֲבִידָן

Biblical Hebrew · Strong's H27

**Abidan** — used 5 times in the Hebrew Bible. Below: its meanings with their sources, MACULA's glosses, and 2 verses word for word and in JPS 1917.

## Meaning

### OpenScriptures lexical index

Abidan [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1488/27/#m1)

### Brown–Driver–Briggs 1906

אֲבִידָן: n.pr.m. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1488/27/#m2)

**The whole BDB entry:** n.pr.m. (my father is judge) a prince of Benj. Nu 1:11; 2:22; 7:60, 65; 10:24.

Why these entries: BDB: headword, part of speech agrees, 5 of its verses cited, 0 words shared with the glosses, lists its Strong's number (3 candidates); OSHB: headword, part of speech agrees, 0 words shared with the BDB entry, 1 with the glosses (4 candidates)

## Glosses

MACULA's English glosses of the word in the text, with how often each is used: Abidan (3); \[was\] Abidan (1); of Abidan (1).

## In the verses

[Numbers 1:11](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/NUM.1.11/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/NUM.1.11/#tree)

לְבִ֨נְיָמִ֔ן אֲבִידָ֖ן בֶּן־גִּדְעֹנִֽי׃

*Word for word:* for Benjamin Abidan the.son of.Gideoni

*JPS 1917:* Of Benjamin, Abidan the son of Gideoni.

[Numbers 10:24](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/NUM.10.24/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/NUM.10.24/#tree)

וְעַ֨ל־צְבָ֔א מַטֵּ֖ה בְּנֵ֣י בִנְיָמִ֑ן אֲבִידָ֖ן בֶּן־גִּדְעוֹנִֽי׃ס

*Word for word:* and.\[was\] over the.military.group of.the.tribe of.the.descendants of.Benjamin Abidan the.son of.Gideoni

*JPS 1917:* And over the host of the tribe of the children of Benjamin was Abidan the son of Gideoni.

## On Mova

- [Trees and pragmatics of its meanings](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1488/27/): every English meaning parsed by Mova, with its dependency tree and frames.

Sources. The words, their counts, glosses and the word-for-word renderings: MACULA Hebrew (the Westminster Leningrad Codex; Clear Bible, CC BY 4.0). Meanings: the OpenScriptures lexical index (CC BY 4.0), Brown–Driver–Briggs 1906 and Jastrow 1903 (public domain, via Sefaria); Targum Onkelos from Sefaria (public domain). Translation: JPS 1917 (public domain, from eBible.org).