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# מָדוֹן

Biblical Hebrew · Strong's H4068

**Madon** — 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

Madon [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1502/4068/#m1)

### Brown–Driver–Briggs 1906

מָדוֹן²: n.pr.loc. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1502/4068/#m2)

**The whole BDB entry:** n.pr.loc. a royal city of the Canaanites Jos 11:1; 12:19; 𝔊 Μαρρν, Μαδων, Λαμορων;= Madîn. close to Hattîn, Surveyi. 365, dub.; a village Maron lies 2 hours WSW. from Kedesh, van deVeldeMem 146, cf. Di.

Why these entries: BDB: headword, part of speech agrees, 2 of its verses cited, 0 words shared with the glosses, lists its Strong's number (10 candidates); OSHB: headword, part of speech agrees, 0 words shared with the BDB entry, 1 with the glosses (8 candidates)

## Glosses

MACULA's English glosses of the word in the text, with how often each is used: of Madon (2).

## In the verses

[Joshua 12:19](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/JOS.12.19/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/JOS.12.19/#tree)

מֶ֤לֶךְ מָדוֹן֙ אֶחָ֔ד מֶ֥לֶךְ חָצ֖וֹר אֶחָֽד׃

*Word for word:* the.king of.Madon one the.king of.Hazor one

*JPS 1917:* the king of Madon, one; the king of Hazor, one;

[Joshua 11:1](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/JOS.11.1/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/JOS.11.1/#tree)

וַיְהִ֕י כִּשְׁמֹ֖עַ יָבִ֣ין מֶֽלֶךְ־חָצ֑וֹר וַיִּשְׁלַ֗ח אֶל־יוֹבָב֙ מֶ֣לֶךְ מָד֔וֹן וְאֶל־מֶ֥לֶךְ שִׁמְר֖וֹן וְאֶל־מֶ֥לֶךְ אַכְשָֽׁף׃

*Word for word:* and it.was just as.heard Jabin the.king of.Hazor and he.sent to Jobab the.king of.Madon and to the.king of.Shimron and to the.king of.Acshaph

*JPS 1917:* And it came to pass, when Jabin king of Hazor heard thereof, that he sent to Jobab king of Madon, and to the king of Shimron, and to the king of Achshaph,

## On Mova

- [This word in the Tanakh dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/tanakh/w/4068.html) on Mova free.
- [Trees and pragmatics of its meanings](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1502/4068/): 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).