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# אֶלְדָּד

Biblical Hebrew · Strong's H419

**Eldad** — used 2 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

Eldad [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1488/419/#m1)

### Brown–Driver–Briggs 1906

אֶלְדָּד: n.pr.m. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1488/419/#m2)

**The whole BDB entry:** n.pr.m. (God has loved, cf. Sab. ודדאל DHMZMG 1883, 15; v. also יְדִידְיָה) one of the elders Nu 11:26, 27; prob. = אֱלִידָד Nu 34:21 where called a prince of Benjamin.—On n.pr. with אֵל cf. those with אָב & אָח, & especially Nöl.c., v. p. 42, & (Sab.) DHMEpigr. Denkm.88.

Why these entries: BDB: headword, part of speech agrees, 2 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 (2 candidates)

## Glosses

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

## In the verses

[Numbers 11:27](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/NUM.11.27/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/NUM.11.27/#tree)

וַיָּ֣רָץ הַנַּ֔עַר וַיַּגֵּ֥ד לְמֹשֶׁ֖ה וַיֹּאמַ֑ר אֶלְדָּ֣ד וּמֵידָ֔ד מִֽתְנַבְּאִ֖ים בַּֽמַּחֲנֶֽה׃

*Word for word:* and he.ran the.young man and he.told to Moses and he.said Eldad and Medad \[are\].prophesying in the camp

*JPS 1917:* And there ran a young man, and told Moses, and said: 'Eldad and Medad are prophesying in the camp.'

[Numbers 11:26](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/NUM.11.26/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/NUM.11.26/#tree)

וַיִּשָּׁאֲר֣וּ שְׁנֵֽי־אֲנָשִׁ֣ים ׀ בַּֽמַּחֲנֶ֡ה שֵׁ֣ם הָאֶחָ֣ד ׀ אֶלְדָּ֡ד וְשֵׁם֩ הַשֵּׁנִ֨י מֵידָ֜ד וַתָּ֧נַח עֲלֵיהֶ֣ם הָר֗וּחַ וְהֵ֙מָּה֙ בַּכְּתֻבִ֔ים וְלֹ֥א יָצְא֖וּ הָאֹ֑הֱלָה וַיִּֽתְנַבְּא֖וּ בַּֽמַּחֲנֶֽה׃

*Word for word:* and they.had.remained two men in the camp the.name of the.one \[was\].Eldad and the.name of the.second \[was\].Medad and it.rested on them the spirit and they \[were\].among \[those\] written and not they.had.gone.out to the tent and they.prophesied in the camp

*JPS 1917:* But there remained two men in the camp, the name of the one was Eldad, and the name of the other Medad; and the spirit rested upon them; and they were of them that were recorded, but had not gone out unto the Tent; and they prophesied in the camp.

## On Mova

- [This word in the Tanakh dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/tanakh/w/419.html) on Mova free.
- [Trees and pragmatics of its meanings](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1488/419/): 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).