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# דְּדָן

Biblical Hebrew · Strong's H1719

**Dedan** — used 11 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

Dedan [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1491/1719/#m1)

### Brown–Driver–Briggs 1906

דְּדָן: n.pr.loc. gent. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1491/1719/#m2)

**The whole BDB entry:** n.pr.loc. & gent.;—ד׳ Gn 10:7 + 8 times + Ez 27:20 (but v. infr.) c. ה loc. דְּדָ֫נֶה Ez 25:13 cf. Ges§ 90, 2 ad fin.;— under fig. of son of רַעֲמָה and grandson of כּוּשׁ (v. these arts.) Gn 10:7 (brother of שְׁבָא) = 1 Ch 1:9 Ez 27:20; cf. בְּנֵי ד׳ v 15 (but read here perhaps רדן 𝔊 υἱοὶ Ῥοδίων, cf. StaDe Pop. Javan. 11, also 𝔖 ܕܪܢ, Co; v. sub דֹּדָנִים infr.) cf. also Ez 38:13, שְׁבָא וּד׳; . south-Arabian tribe on Persian Gulf, = Sab. בנו דדן according to DHMZMG 1876, 122; Sab. Denkm. 28 (dubit. Mordt); but in NW. of Arabian peninsula, GlaserSkizze ii. 391 ff.; perhaps orig. further south cf. Di Je 25:23. as son of יָקְשָׁן, father of אַשּׁוּרִם etc., Gn 10:7(×2) (here also brother of שְׁבָא) = Gn 25:3; 1 Ch 1:32 יֹשְׁבֵי ד׳; also Je 49:8. This is appar. a northern branch of 1, cf. Di Gn 25:3.—On דדן in MI31, 31 cf. Sm & SoMI p. 29 NöLCB Jan. 8, 1887 Cl GannJAs. Jan. 1887, 107.

Why these entries: BDB: headword, part of speech agrees, 10 of its verses cited, 0 words shared with the glosses, lists its Strong's number (2 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: Dedan (7); of Dedan (3); to (1).

## In the verses

[Ezekiel 27:20](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/EZK.27.20/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/EZK.27.20/#tree)

דְּדָן֙ רֹֽכַלְתֵּ֔ךְ בְבִגְדֵי־חֹ֖פֶשׁ לְרִכְבָּֽה׃

*Word for word:* Dedan \[was\].your trader for clothes of.material for riding

*JPS 1917:* Dedan was thy trafficker in precious cloths for riding.

[Jeremiah 25:23](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/JER.25.23/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/JER.25.23/#tree)

וְאֶת־דְּדָ֤ן וְאֶת־תֵּימָא֙ וְאֶת־בּ֔וּז וְאֵ֖ת כָּל־קְצוּצֵ֥י פֵאָֽה׃

*Word for word:* and (et) Dedan and (et) Tema and (et) Buz and (et) all \[those.who.are\].cut.off of.\[the\].corner

*JPS 1917:* Dedan, and Tema, and Buz, and all that have the corners of their hair polled;

## On Mova

- [This word in the Tanakh dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/tanakh/w/1719.html) on Mova free.
- [Trees and pragmatics of its meanings](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1491/1719/): 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).