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# דֹּתָן

Biblical Hebrew · Strong's H1886

**Dothan** — 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

Dothan [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1491/1886/#m1)

### Brown–Driver–Briggs 1906

דֹּתָן: n.pr.loc. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1491/1886/#m2)

**The whole BDB entry:** n.pr.loc. (𝔊 Δωθαειμ)—in N. Israel, north of Samaria; דֹּתָ֑ן Gn 37:17 2 K 6:13; דֹּתָ֑יְנָה Gn 37:17 cf. Di; mod. Tel Dotân, Bd.Pal. 228.

Why these entries: BDB: headword, part of speech agrees, 2 of its verses cited, 0 words shared with the glosses, lists its Strong's number (4 candidates); OSHB: headword, part of speech agrees, 0 words shared with the BDB entry, 1 with the glosses (3 candidates)

## Glosses

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

## In the verses

[2 Kings 6:13](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/2KI.6.13/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/2KI.6.13/#tree)

וַיֹּ֗אמֶר לְכ֤וּ וּרְאוּ֙ אֵיכֹ֣ה ה֔וּא וְאֶשְׁלַ֖ח וְאֶקָּחֵ֑הוּ וַיֻּגַּד־ל֥וֹ לֵאמֹ֖ר הִנֵּ֥ה בְדֹתָֽן׃

*Word for word:* and he.said go and see where? \[is\].he so that.I.may.send and so that.I.may.capture.him and it.was.told to him (cmp) there! in Dothan

*JPS 1917:* And he said: 'Go and see where he is, that I may send and fetch him.' And it was told him, saying: 'Behold, he is in Dothan.'

[Genesis 37:17](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/GEN.37.17/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/GEN.37.17/#tree)

וַיֹּ֤אמֶר הָאִישׁ֙ נָסְע֣וּ מִזֶּ֔ה כִּ֤י שָׁמַ֙עְתִּי֙ אֹֽמְרִ֔ים נֵלְכָ֖ה דֹּתָ֑יְנָה וַיֵּ֤לֶךְ יוֹסֵף֙ אַחַ֣ר אֶחָ֔יו וַיִּמְצָאֵ֖ם בְּדֹתָֽן׃

*Word for word:* and he.said the man they.have.set.out from here (dm) I.heard.\[them\] saying let.us.go to Dothan and he.went Joseph after brothers his and he found.them at Dothan

*JPS 1917:* And the man said: 'They are departed hence; for I heard them say: Let us go to Dothan.' And Joseph went after his brethren, and found them in Dothan.

## On Mova

- [This word in the Tanakh dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/tanakh/w/1886.html) on Mova free.
- [Trees and pragmatics of its meanings](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1491/1886/): 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).