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# יְדִידְיָה

Biblical Hebrew · Strong's H3041

**Jedidiah** — 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

Jedidiah [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1497/3041/#m1)

### Brown–Driver–Briggs 1906

יְדִידְיָה: n.pr.m. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1497/3041/#m2)

**The whole BDB entry:** n.pr.m. (beloved of Yah; cf. Sab. ודדאל DHMZMG 1875, 604; 1883, 15)—name given to Solomon by Nathan; וַיִּקְרָא אֶת־שְׁמוֹ יְדִידְיָהֿ֑ בַּעֲבוּר יהוה 2 S 12:25; 𝔊 Ιδεδει, 𝔊L Ιεδδιδια.

Why these entries: BDB: headword, part of speech agrees, 1 of its verses cited, 0 words shared with the glosses (6 candidates); OSHB: headword, part of speech agrees, 0 words shared with the BDB entry, 1 with the glosses (5 candidates)

## Glosses

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

## In the verses

[2 Samuel 12:25](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/2SA.12.25/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/2SA.12.25/#tree)

וַיִּשְׁלַ֗ח בְּיַד֙ נָתָ֣ן הַנָּבִ֔יא וַיִּקְרָ֥א אֶת־שְׁמ֖וֹ יְדִ֣ידְיָ֑הּ בַּעֲב֖וּר יְהוָֽה׃פ

*Word for word:* and he.sent by the.hand of.Nathan the prophet and he.called (et) name his Jedidiah because of Yahweh

*JPS 1917:* and He sent by the hand of Nathan the prophet, and he called his name Jedidiah, for the LORD'S sake.

## On Mova

- [This word in the Tanakh dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/tanakh/w/3041.html) on Mova free.
- [Trees and pragmatics of its meanings](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1497/3041/): 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).