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# דֹּדָוָהוּ

Biblical Hebrew · Strong's H1735

**Dodavah** — used 1 times in the Hebrew Bible. Below: its meanings with their sources, MACULA's glosses, and 1 verse word for word and in JPS 1917.

## Meaning

### OpenScriptures lexical index

Dodavah [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1491/1735/#m1)

### Brown–Driver–Briggs 1906

דּוֹדָוָהוּ: n.pr.m. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1491/1735/#m2)

**The whole BDB entry:** n.pr.m. (דּוֹדִיָּהוּ, beloved of י׳, cf. NesEg 70) father of Eliezer 2 Ch 20:37.

Why these entries: BDB: same consonants, part of speech agrees, 1 of its verses cited, 0 words shared with the glosses (6 candidates); OSHB: same consonants, part of speech agrees, 0 words shared with the BDB entry, 0 with the glosses (5 candidates)

## Glosses

MACULA's English glosses of the word in the text, with how often each is used: of Dodavahu (1).

## In the verses

[2 Chronicles 20:37](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/2CH.20.37/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/2CH.20.37/#tree)

וַיִּתְנַבֵּ֞א אֱלִיעֶ֤זֶר בֶּן־דֹּדָוָ֙הוּ֙ מִמָּ֣רֵשָׁ֔ה עַל־יְהוֹשָׁפָ֖ט לֵאמֹ֑ר כְּהִֽתְחַבֶּרְךָ֣ עִם־אֲחַזְיָ֗הוּ פָּרַ֤ץ יְהוָה֙ אֶֽת־מַעֲשֶׂ֔יךָ וַיִּשָּׁבְר֣וּ אֳנִיּ֔וֹת וְלֹ֥א עָצְר֖וּ לָלֶ֥כֶת אֶל־תַּרְשִֽׁישׁ׃

*Word for word:* and he.prophesied Eliezer the.son of.Dodavahu from Mareshah on Jehoshaphat (cmp) as you have.made.an.alliance with Ahaziah he.will.break Yahweh (et) works your and they.were.broken ships and not they.retained to go to Tarshish

*JPS 1917:* Then Eliezer the son of Dodavahu of Mareshah prophesied against Jehoshaphat, saying: 'Because thou hast joined thyself with Ahaziah, the LORD hath made a breach in thy works.' And the ships were broken, that they were not able to go to Tarshish.

## On Mova

- [This word in the Tanakh dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/tanakh/w/1735.html) on Mova free.
- [Trees and pragmatics of its meanings](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1491/1735/): 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).