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# חִדֶּקֶל

Biblical Hebrew · Strong's H2313

**Hiddekel** — used 2 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

Hiddekel [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1495/2313/#m1)

### Brown–Driver–Briggs 1906

חִדֶּ֫קֶל: n.pr.fl. Tigris [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1495/2313/#m2)

**The whole BDB entry:** n.pr.fl. Tigris (Sum. Idigna, Assyrian Idiḳlat, Diḳlat, O.-Pers. Tigrâ SpiegAPK, Gloss., etc.), the famous Assyrian river; v. especially DlPa 110 f. 170 ff.; ח׳ Gn 2:14; חִדָּ֑קֶל Dn 10:4.

Why these entries: BDB: headword, part of speech agrees, 2 of its verses cited, 1 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, 0 with the glosses (1 candidates)

## Glosses

MACULA's English glosses of the word in the text, with how often each is used: \[is\] Tigris (1); \[is\] the Tigris (1).

## In the verses

[Genesis 2:14](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/GEN.2.14/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/GEN.2.14/#tree)

וְשֵׁ֨ם הַנָּהָ֤ר הַשְּׁלִישִׁי֙ חִדֶּ֔קֶל ה֥וּא הַֽהֹלֵ֖ךְ קִדְמַ֣ת אַשּׁ֑וּר וְהַנָּהָ֥ר הָֽרְבִיעִ֖י ה֥וּא פְרָֽת׃

*Word for word:* and the.name of the.river (the) third \[is\].Tigris it \[is\].the \[one.which\].goes the.east of.Assyria and the river (the) fourth it \[is.the\].Euphrates

*JPS 1917:* And the name of the third river is Tigris; that is it which goeth toward the east of Asshur. And the fourth river is the Euphrates.

[Daniel 10:4](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/DAN.10.4/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/DAN.10.4/#tree)

וּבְי֛וֹם עֶשְׂרִ֥ים וְאַרְבָּעָ֖ה לַחֹ֣דֶשׁ הָרִאשׁ֑וֹן וַאֲנִ֗י הָיִ֛יתִי עַ֣ל יַ֧ד הַנָּהָ֛ר הַגָּד֖וֹל ה֥וּא חִדָּֽקֶל׃

*Word for word:* and on day twenty and four of the month (the) first and I I.was on the.side of the.river (the) great it \[is\].the.Tigris

*JPS 1917:* And in the four and twentieth day of the first month, as I was by the side of the great river, which is Tigris,

## On Mova

- [This word in the Tanakh dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/tanakh/w/2313.html) on Mova free.
- [Trees and pragmatics of its meanings](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1495/2313/): 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).