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# עַבְדּוֹן

Biblical Hebrew

**Abdon. Compare** — 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

Abdon. Compare [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1506/lemma_3a_5e2_5b7_5d1_5b0_5d3_5bc_5d5_5b9_5df/#m1)

### Brown–Driver–Briggs 1906

עַבְדּוֹן: n.pr. n.pr.m. n.pr.loc. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1506/lemma_3a_5e2_5b7_5d1_5b0_5d3_5bc_5d5_5b9_5df/#m2)

**The whole BDB entry:** n.pr. I. n.pr.m. a judge Ju 12:13, 15, 𝔊 Αβδων, A 𝔊L Λαβδω(μ); (Ew cp. בְּדָן 1 S 12:11, but read בָּרָק, v. בְּדָן supr.). a Benjamite 1 Ch 8:23, 𝔊 Αβαδων, A 𝔊L Αβδων. son of Jehiel a Gibeonite 1 Ch 8:30; 9:36; 𝔊 Αβαλων, Σαβαδων, A Αβδων, Σαβδων, 𝔊L Αβδων. son of Micah 2 Ch 34:20, 𝔊 Αβδοδομ, A 𝔊L Αβδων (= עַכְבּוֹר 2 K 22:12). II. n.pr.loc. Levitical city in Asher Jos 21:30; 1 Ch 6:59, 𝔊 Δαββων, Αβαραν, A 𝔊L Αβδων (20 Codd. read עַבְדֹּן Jos 19:28 for עֶבְרֹן), ʿAbde, Guérin Gal 2:37 cf. BuhlGeogr. 230.

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

## Glosses

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

## In the verses

[Joshua 21:30](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/JOS.21.30/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/JOS.21.30/#tree)

וּמִמַּטֵּ֣ה אָשֵׁ֔ר אֶת־מִשְׁאָ֖ל וְאֶת־מִגְרָשֶׁ֑הָ אֶת־עַבְדּ֖וֹן וְאֶת־מִגְרָשֶֽׁהָ׃

*Word for word:* and from the.tribe of.Asher (et) Mishal and (et) lands its.pasture (et) Abdon and (et) lands its.pasture

*JPS 1917:* And out of the tribe of Asher, Mishal with the open land about it, Abdon with the open land about it;

[1 Chronicles 6:59](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/1CH.6.59/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/1CH.6.59/#tree)

וּמִמַּטֵּ֣ה אָשֵׁ֔ר אֶת־מָשָׁ֖ל וְאֶת־מִגְרָשֶׁ֑יהָ וְאֶת־עַבְדּ֖וֹן וְאֶת־מִגְרָשֶֽׁיהָ׃

*Word for word:* and from the.tribe of.Asher (et) Mashal and (et) lands its.pasture and (et) Abdon and (et) lands its.pasture

*JPS 1917:* and out of the tribe of Asher: Mashal with the open land about it, and Abdon with the open land about it;

## On Mova

- [Trees and pragmatics of its meanings](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1506/lemma_3a_5e2_5b7_5d1_5b0_5d3_5bc_5d5_5b9_5df/): 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).