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# בְּדַד

Biblical Hebrew · Strong's H911

**Bedad** — 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

Bedad [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1489/911/#m1)

### Brown–Driver–Briggs 1906

בְּדַד: n.pr.m. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1489/911/#m2)

**The whole BDB entry:** n.pr.m. father of an Edom. ruler (הֲדַד) Gn 36:35 = 1 Ch 1:46.

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 (4 candidates); OSHB: headword, part of speech agrees, 0 words shared with the BDB entry, 1 with the glosses (3 candidates)

## Glosses

MACULA's English glosses of the word in the text, with how often each is used: of Bedad (2).

## In the verses

[Genesis 36:35](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/GEN.36.35/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/GEN.36.35/#tree)

וַיָּ֖מָת חֻשָׁ֑ם וַיִּמְלֹ֨ךְ תַּחְתָּ֜יו הֲדַ֣ד בֶּן־בְּדַ֗ד הַמַּכֶּ֤ה אֶת־מִדְיָן֙ בִּשְׂדֵ֣ה מוֹאָ֔ב וְשֵׁ֥ם עִיר֖וֹ עֲוִֽית׃

*Word for word:* and he.died Husham and he.reigned in place.of.him Hadad the.son of.Bedad \[who\] defeated (et) Midian in the.region of.Moab and the.name his.city his \[was\].Avith

*JPS 1917:* And Husham died, and Hadad the son of Bedad, who smote Midian in the field of Moab, reigned in his stead; and the name of his city was Avith.

[1 Chronicles 1:46](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/1CH.1.46/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/1CH.1.46/#tree)

וַיָּ֖מָת חוּשָׁ֑ם וַיִּמְלֹ֨ךְ תַּחְתָּ֜יו הֲדַ֣ד בֶּן־בְּדַ֗ד הַמַּכֶּ֤ה אֶת־מִדְיָן֙ בִּשְׂדֵ֣ה מוֹאָ֔ב וְשֵׁ֥ם עִיר֖וֹ עֲוִֽית׃

*Word for word:* and he.died Husham and he.reigned in place.of.him Hadad the.son of.Bedad \[who\] defeated (et) Midian in the.region of.Moab and the.name his.city his \[was\].Avith

*JPS 1917:* And Husham died, and Hadad the son of Bedad, who smote Midian in the field of Moab, reigned in his stead; and the name of his city was Avith.

## On Mova

- [This word in the Tanakh dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/tanakh/w/911.html) on Mova free.
- [Trees and pragmatics of its meanings](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1489/911/): 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).