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# דָּתָן

Biblical Hebrew · Strong's H1885

**Dathan** — used 10 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

Dathan [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1491/1885/#m1)

### Brown–Driver–Briggs 1906

דָּתָן: n.pr.m. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1491/1885/#m2)

**The whole BDB entry:** n.pr.m. (cf. Assyrian Datana Shlm Obelisk, 1. 161) a Reubenite, son of Eliab Nu 16:1, 12, 24, 25, 27(×2); 26:9(×2) Dt 11:6 ψ 106:17.

Why these entries: BDB: headword, part of speech agrees, 8 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: Dathan (9); \[was the\] Dathan (1).

## In the verses

[Psalms 106:17](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/PSA.106.17/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/PSA.106.17/#tree)

תִּפְתַּח־אֶ֭רֶץ וַתִּבְלַ֣ע דָּתָ֑ן וַ֝תְּכַ֗ס עַל־עֲדַ֥ת אֲבִירָֽם׃

*Word for word:* it.opened \[the\].earth and it.swallowed.up Dathan and it.covered over the.company of.Abiram

*JPS 1917:* The earth opened and swallowed up Dathan, and covered the company of Abiram.

[Numbers 16:24](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/NUM.16.24/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/NUM.16.24/#tree)

דַּבֵּ֥ר אֶל־הָעֵדָ֖ה לֵאמֹ֑ר הֵֽעָלוּ֙ מִסָּבִ֔יב לְמִשְׁכַּן־קֹ֖רַח דָּתָ֥ן וַאֲבִירָֽם׃

*Word for word:* speak to the congregation (cmp) take.yourselves.up from round.about (to).the dwelling.place of.Korah Dathan and Abiram

*JPS 1917:* 'Speak unto the congregation, saying: Get you up from about the dwelling of Korah, Dathan, and Abiram.'

## On Mova

- [This word in the Tanakh dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/tanakh/w/1885.html) on Mova free.
- [Trees and pragmatics of its meanings](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1491/1885/): 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).