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# הֲדַד

Biblical Hebrew · Strong's H1908

**Hadad** — used 12 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

Hadad [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1492/1908/#m1)

### Brown–Driver–Briggs 1906

הֲדַד: n.pr.m. Hadad n.pr.div. n.pr.m. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1492/1908/#m2)

**The whole BDB entry:** n.pr.m. Hadad (𝔊 Ἀδερ but v. הדד Aramaic n.pr.div. DHMAltsem. Inschr. von Sendschirli 56, and n.pr. עבדהדד ScholzGötzendienst 245, הדדנדנאח EutSBAk 1887, 410 cf. BaeRel. 68 & sub. בן־הדד p. 122; also Adda, etc., in cpd. n.pr. BezTell el-Amarna BM 155; Hadad, Adad, Addu is known as an Aramaic deity, weather or storm-god, cf. BaeRel. 67.68; perhaps = thunderer DlZK 1885, 166 Bael.c., cf. רִמּוֹן; on Hadad in Arabia cf. WeSkizzen iii. 51; Sab. הדד Hal 27; as n.pr.div. Heb. only in cpd. n.pr.m., v. infr.)— name of kings of Edom, Gn 36:35 = 1 Ch 1:46, Gn 36:36 = 1 Ch 1:47 (הֲדָ֑ד); 1 Ch 1:50 (‖ Gen 36:39 הֲדַר, v 51 (הֲדָ֑ד). an Edomite (הָאֲדֹמִ֑י) ה׳ 1 K 11:14, 17, 19, 21(×2), 25 (הֲדָ֑ד); = אֲדַד v 17.

Why these entries: BDB: headword, part of speech agrees, 11 of its verses cited, 1 words shared with the glosses, lists its Strong's number (4 candidates); OSHB: headword, part of speech agrees, 1 words shared with the BDB entry, 1 with the glosses (2 candidates)

## Glosses

MACULA's English glosses of the word in the text, with how often each is used: Hadad (12).

## In the verses

[Genesis 36:36](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/GEN.36.36/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/GEN.36.36/#tree)

וַיָּ֖מָת הֲדָ֑ד וַיִּמְלֹ֣ךְ תַּחְתָּ֔יו שַׂמְלָ֖ה מִמַּשְׂרֵקָֽה׃

*Word for word:* and he.died Hadad and he.reigned in place.of.him Samlah from Masrekah

*JPS 1917:* And Hadad died, and Samlah of Masrekah reigned in his stead.

[1 Chronicles 1:47](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/1CH.1.47/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/1CH.1.47/#tree)

וַיָּ֖מָת הֲדָ֑ד וַיִּמְלֹ֣ךְ תַּחְתָּ֔יו שַׂמְלָ֖ה מִמַּשְׂרֵקָֽה׃

*Word for word:* and he.died Hadad and he.reigned in place.of.him Samlah from Masrekah

*JPS 1917:* And Hadad died, and Samlah of Masrekah reigned in his stead.

## On Mova

- [This word in the Tanakh dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/tanakh/w/1908.html) on Mova free.
- [Trees and pragmatics of its meanings](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1492/1908/): 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).