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# כְּדׇרְלָעֹמֶר

Biblical Hebrew · Strong's H3540

**Chedorlaomer** — used 5 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

Chedorlaomer [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1499/3540/#m1)

### Brown–Driver–Briggs 1906

כְּדָרְלָעֹמֶר: n.pr.m. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1499/3540/#m2)

**The whole BDB entry:** n.pr.m. king of Elam ( = Babylon. Kudar-Laga\[mar\] (Lagamaru = n.pr. div.), v. PinchesVict. Inst. Jan. 20, 1896 SayPSBA, June 1896, 176 ScheilRev. Bibl. 1896, 600 f., cf. SchrCOT)—Gn 14:1, 4, 5, 9, 17.

Why these entries: BDB: same consonants, part of speech agrees, 5 of its verses cited, 0 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: Kedorlaomer (5).

## In the verses

[Genesis 14:4](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/GEN.14.4/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/GEN.14.4/#tree)

שְׁתֵּ֤ים עֶשְׂרֵה֙ שָׁנָ֔ה עָבְד֖וּ אֶת־כְּדָרְלָעֹ֑מֶר וּשְׁלֹשׁ־עֶשְׂרֵ֥ה שָׁנָ֖ה מָרָֽדוּ׃

*Word for word:* two.plus ten year\[s\] they.had.served (et) Kedorlaomer and thir- teen year they.rebelled

*JPS 1917:* Twelve years they served Chedorlaomer, and in the thirteenth year they rebelled.

[Genesis 14:1](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/GEN.14.1/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/GEN.14.1/#tree)

וַיְהִ֗י בִּימֵי֙ אַמְרָפֶ֣ל מֶֽלֶךְ־שִׁנְעָ֔ר אַרְי֖וֹךְ מֶ֣לֶךְ אֶלָּסָ֑ר כְּדָרְלָעֹ֙מֶר֙ מֶ֣לֶךְ עֵילָ֔ם וְתִדְעָ֖ל מֶ֥לֶךְ גּוֹיִֽם׃

*Word for word:* and it.was in the.days of.Amraphel the.king of.Shinar Arioch the.king of.Ellasar Kedorlaomer the.king of.Elam and Tidal the.king of.Goyim

*JPS 1917:* And it came to pass in the days of Amraphel king of Shinar, Arioch king of Ellasar, Chedorlaomer king of Elam, and Tidal king of Goiim,

## On Mova

- [This word in the Tanakh dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/tanakh/w/3540.html) on Mova free.
- [Trees and pragmatics of its meanings](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1499/3540/): 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).