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# דַּרְדַּע

Biblical Hebrew · Strong's H1862

**Darda** — 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

Darda [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1491/1862/#m1)

### Brown–Driver–Briggs 1906

דַּרְדַּע: n.pr.m. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1491/1862/#m2)

**The whole BDB entry:** n.pr.m. (etym. dub.; possibly = דַּרְדַּר, belonging then sub דרר, cf. ThesAdd.83)—only 1 K 5:11 Eathan the Ezrahite, and Heman, and Calcol, and Darda, the sons of Mahol (types of wise men, but solomon wiser than they); = דָּ֖רַע 1 Ch 2:6, where read דַּרְדַּע with 𝔖 𝔗 & Codd.

Why these entries: BDB: headword, part of speech agrees, 1 of its verses cited, 0 words shared with the glosses, lists its Strong's number (1 candidates); OSHB: headword, part of speech agrees, 1 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: Darda (1).

## In the verses

[1 Kings 5:11](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/1KI.5.11/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/1KI.5.11/#tree)

וַיֶּחְכַּם֮ מִכָּל־הָֽאָדָם֒ מֵאֵיתָ֣ן הָאֶזְרָחִ֗י וְהֵימָ֧ן וְכַלְכֹּ֛ל וְדַרְדַּ֖ע בְּנֵ֣י מָח֑וֹל וַיְהִֽי־שְׁמ֥וֹ בְכָֽל־הַגּוֹיִ֖ם סָבִֽיב׃

*Word for word:* and he.was.wise more than.any (the) human more than.Ethan the Ezrachite and Heman and Kalkol and Darda the.sons of.Mahol and it.was name his among all the nations around

*JPS 1917:* For he was wiser than all men: than Ethan the Ezrahite, and Heman, and Calcol, and Darda, the sons of Mahol; and his fame was in all the nations round about.

## On Mova

- [This word in the Tanakh dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/tanakh/w/1862.html) on Mova free.
- [Trees and pragmatics of its meanings](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1491/1862/): 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).