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# דָּנִי

Biblical Hebrew · Strong's H1839

**Danite** — 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

Danite [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1491/1839/#m1)

### Brown–Driver–Briggs 1906

דָּנִי: adj.gent. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1491/1839/#m2)

**The whole BDB entry:** adj.gent. always c. art. as n.pr. coll. הַדָּנִי 1 Ch 12:35; שֵׁבֶט הַדָּנִי Ju 18:1, 30; מִשְׁפַּחַת הַדָּנִי Ju 13:2; 18:11.

Why these entries: BDB: headword, part of speech agrees, 4 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: the Danite\[s\] (4); Danite\[s\] (1).

## In the verses

[1 Chronicles 12:36](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/1CH.12.36/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/1CH.12.36/#tree)

וּמִן־הַדָּנִי֙ עֹרְכֵ֣י מִלְחָמָ֔ה עֶשְׂרִֽים־וּשְׁמוֹנָ֥ה אֶ֖לֶף וְשֵׁ֥שׁ מֵאֽוֹת׃ס

*Word for word:* and of the Danite\[s\] \[those.who\].prepare of.battle \[were\].twenty and eight thousand and six hundred(s)

*JPS 1917:* And of the Danites that could set the battle in array, twenty and eight thousand and six hundred.

[Judges 18:11](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/JDG.18.11/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/JDG.18.11/#tree)

וַיִּסְע֤וּ מִשָּׁם֙ מִמִּשְׁפַּ֣חַת הַדָּנִ֔י מִצָּרְעָ֖ה וּמֵאֶשְׁתָּאֹ֑ל שֵֽׁשׁ־מֵא֣וֹת אִ֔ישׁ חָג֖וּר כְּלֵ֥י מִלְחָמָֽה׃

*Word for word:* and they.set.out from there of the.tribe of the.Danite\[s\] from Zorah and from Eshtaol six hundred(s) man girded weapons of.war

*JPS 1917:* And there set forth from thence of the family of the Danites, out of Zorah and out of Eshtaol, six hundred men girt with weapons of war.

## On Mova

- [This word in the Tanakh dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/tanakh/w/1839.html) on Mova free.
- [Trees and pragmatics of its meanings](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1491/1839/): 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).