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# דֹּודָה

Biblical Hebrew · Strong's H1733

**aunt** — used 3 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

aunt [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1491/1733/#m1)

### Brown–Driver–Briggs 1906

דֹּדָה: n.f. aunt [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1491/1733/#m2)

**The whole BDB entry:** n.f. aunt—only sf. דֹּדָֽתְךָ Lv 18:14 father’s brother’s wife; דֹּדָתוֹ Lv 20:20 Ex 6:20 father’s sister \[cf. Nu 26:59\].

Why these entries: BDB: same consonants, part of speech agrees, 3 of its verses cited, 1 words shared with the glosses, lists its Strong's number (7 candidates); OSHB: same consonants, part of speech agrees, 1 words shared with the BDB entry, 1 with the glosses (5 candidates)

## Glosses

MACULA's English glosses of the word in the text, with how often each is used: aunt (2); sister (1).

## In the verses

[Leviticus 18:14](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/LEV.18.14/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/LEV.18.14/#tree)

עֶרְוַ֥ת אֲחִֽי־אָבִ֖יךָ לֹ֣א תְגַלֵּ֑ה אֶל־אִשְׁתּוֹ֙ לֹ֣א תִקְרָ֔ב דֹּדָֽתְךָ֖ הִֽוא׃ס

*Word for word:* the.nakedness of.the.brother your.father your not you.will.uncover to wife his not you.will.draw.near aunt \[is\].your she

*JPS 1917:* Thou shalt not uncover the nakedness of thy fathers brother, thou shalt not approach to his wife: she is thine aunt.

[Leviticus 20:20](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/LEV.20.20/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/LEV.20.20/#tree)

וְאִ֗ישׁ אֲשֶׁ֤ר יִשְׁכַּב֙ אֶת־דֹּ֣דָת֔וֹ עֶרְוַ֥ת דֹּד֖וֹ גִּלָּ֑ה חֶטְאָ֥ם יִשָּׂ֖אוּ עֲרִירִ֥ים יָמֻֽתוּ׃

*Word for word:* and a.man who he.will.lie with aunt his the.nakedness his.uncle his he.has.uncovered sin their they.will.bear childless they.will.die

*JPS 1917:* And if a man shall lie with his uncle's wife — he hath uncovered his uncle's nakedness — they shall bear their sin; they shall die childless.

## On Mova

- [This word in the Tanakh dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/tanakh/w/1733.html) on Mova free.
- [Trees and pragmatics of its meanings](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1491/1733/): 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).