[Elamur Dictionary](https://md.dictionary.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://dictionary.elamur.ai/free/en/biblical-hebrew/%D7%91%D7%9C%D7%93%D7%93/)

[dictionaries](https://md.dictionary.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [Biblical Hebrew](https://md.dictionary.elamur.ai/free/en/biblical-hebrew/) / [ב](https://md.dictionary.elamur.ai/free/en/biblical-hebrew/bet/)‎ / בִּלְדַּד‎

# בִּלְדַּד

Biblical Hebrew · Strong's H1085

**Bildad** — 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

Bildad [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1489/1085/#m1)

### Brown–Driver–Briggs 1906

בִּלְדַּד: n.pr.m. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1489/1085/#m2)

**The whole BDB entry:** n.pr.m. (𝔊 Βαλδαδ; NöZMG 1888, 479 Bel has loved, cf. אֶלְדָּד; DlPa 298; ZK ii. 177 comp. cuneif. Bir-Dadda, cf. HptHbr 1885, 224) 2nd friend of Job (הַשֻּׁחִי) בּ׳ הַשּׁוּחִי Jb 2:11; 8:1; 18:1; 25:1; 42:9.

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 (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: Bildad (5).

## In the verses

[Job 8:1](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/JOB.8.1/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/JOB.8.1/#tree)

וַ֭יַּעַן בִּלְדַּ֥ד הַשּׁוּחִ֗י וַיֹאמַֽר׃

*Word for word:* and he.answered Bildad the Shuhite and he.said

*JPS 1917:* Then answered Bildad the Shuhite, and said:

[Job 18:1](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/JOB.18.1/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/JOB.18.1/#tree)

וַ֭יַּעַן בִּלְדַּ֥ד הַשֻּׁחִ֗י וַיֹּאמַֽר׃

*Word for word:* and he.answered Bildad the Shuhite and he.said

*JPS 1917:* Then answered Bildad the Shuhite, and said:

## On Mova

- [This word in the Tanakh dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/tanakh/w/1085.html) on Mova free.
- [Trees and pragmatics of its meanings](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1489/1085/): 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).