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# בְּדָן

Biblical Hebrew · Strong's H917

**Bedan** — 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

Bedan [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1489/917/#m1)

### Brown–Driver–Briggs 1906

בְּדָן: n.pr.m. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1489/917/#m2)

**The whole BDB entry:** n.pr.m. (= עַבְדָּן?). a judge of Israel 1 S 12:11; but read prob. בָּרָק, so 𝔊 𝔖 We, cf. Dr (v. Ju 4:6f.). a Manassite 1 Ch 7:17.

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

## Glosses

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

## In the verses

[1 Chronicles 7:17](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/1CH.7.17/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/1CH.7.17/#tree)

וּבְנֵ֥י אוּלָ֖ם בְּדָ֑ן אֵ֚לֶּה בְּנֵ֣י גִלְעָ֔ד בֶּן־מָכִ֖יר בֶּן־מְנַשֶּֽׁה׃

*Word for word:* and the.sons of.Ulam \[were\].Bedan these \[were\].the.descendants of.Gilead the.son of.Makir the.son of.Manasseh

*JPS 1917:* And the sons of Ulam: Bedan. These were the sons of Gilead the son of Machir, the son of Manasseh.

[1 Samuel 12:11](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/1SA.12.11/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/1SA.12.11/#tree)

וַיִּשְׁלַ֤ח יְהוָה֙ אֶת־יְרֻבַּ֣עַל וְאֶת־בְּדָ֔ן וְאֶת־יִפְתָּ֖ח וְאֶת־שְׁמוּאֵ֑ל וַיַּצֵּ֨ל אֶתְכֶ֜ם מִיַּ֤ד אֹֽיְבֵיכֶם֙ מִסָּבִ֔יב וַתֵּשְׁב֖וּ בֶּֽטַח׃

*Word for word:* and he.sent Yahweh (et) Jerub-Baal and (et) Bedan and (et) Jephthah and (et) Samuel and he.delivered you from the.hand your.enemies your from round.about and you.dwelt security

*JPS 1917:* And the LORD sent Jerubbaal, and Bedan, and Jephthah, and Samuel, and delivered you out of the hand of your enemies on every side, and ye dwelt in safety.

## On Mova

- [This word in the Tanakh dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/tanakh/w/917.html) on Mova free.
- [Trees and pragmatics of its meanings](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1489/917/): 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).