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# כִּידוֹן

Biblical Hebrew · Strong's H3591

**dart** — used 9 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

dart [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1499/3591/#m1)

### Brown–Driver–Briggs 1906

כִּידוֹן: dart, javelin [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1499/3591/#m2)

**The whole BDB entry:** n.\[m.\] dart, javelin (NH id.)—abs. כ׳ Jos 8:18 + 6 times; כִּידֹן Je 50:42; cstr. כִּידוֹן 1 S 17:6;—dart, javelin (distinct from חֲנִית spear, lance, q.v.), נטה בַּכּ׳ אשׁר ביד(ך) Jos 8:18(×2), cf. v 26; רַעַשׁ כ׳ Jb 41:21 the rushing sound of a dart; בְּחֶרֶב וּבַחֲנִית וּבְכ׳ 1 S 17:45 (weapons of Goliath), כ׳ נְחשֶׁת בֵּין כְּתֵפָיו v 6 (חֲנִית in v 7); + חֲנִית Jb 39:23 also; קֶשֶׁת וְכ׳ Je 6:23; 50:42.

Why these entries: BDB: headword, part of speech agrees, 8 of its verses cited, 1 words shared with the glosses, lists its Strong's number (2 candidates); OSHB: headword, part of speech agrees, 1 words shared with the BDB entry, 0 with the glosses (2 candidates)

## Glosses

MACULA's English glosses of the word in the text, with how often each is used: javelin (6); a javelin (2); of a javelin (1).

## In the verses

[Job 39:23](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/JOB.39.23/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/JOB.39.23/#tree)

עָ֭לָיו תִּרְנֶ֣ה אַשְׁפָּ֑ה לַ֖הַב חֲנִ֣ית וְכִידֽוֹן׃

*Word for word:* on it it.rattles a.quiver \[the\].blade of.a.spear and a.javelin

*JPS 1917:* The quiver rattleth upon him, the glittering spear and the javelin.

[Job 41:21](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/JOB.41.21/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/JOB.41.21/#tree)

כְּ֭קַשׁ נֶחְשְׁב֣וּ תוֹתָ֑ח וְ֝יִשְׂחַ֗ק לְרַ֣עַשׁ כִּידֽוֹן׃

*Word for word:* like chaff they.are.regarded a.club and it.laughs to.\[the\] shaking of.a.javelin

*JPS 1917:* Clubs are accounted as stubble; he laugheth at the rattling of the javelin.

## On Mova

- [Trees and pragmatics of its meanings](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1499/3591/): 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).