דָּא
this
Full lexicon entry — Brown-Driver-Briggs (BDB)
From Brown-Driver-Briggs (BDB)
Where this word appears
Grammar key — what these labels mean
Part of speech
- Pronoun
- A word standing in for a noun (“he,” “this,” “who”).
Gender
- Feminine
- Grammatically feminine.
Number
- Singular
- One.
Every verse where H1668 appears — 4 distinct verses across 1 book. Click any verse to open its interlinear word-by-word view. Verse text shown in the World English Bible for context — . Each verse’s Hebrew form is shown with its reference; the English is not keyword-highlighted, since the data carries no word-level English alignment. Use “Compare translations” on any verse to read it across multiple English versions. This concordance covers the Hebrew Bible; Septuagint (Greek Old Testament) occurrences are not indexed here.
Daniel 4 verses
- Daniel 4:30 דָא pron dem fs The king spoke and said, Is not this great Babylon, which I have built for the royal dwelling-place, by the might of my power and for the glory of my majesty?
- Daniel 5:6 דָּ֥א לְ/דָ֖א pron dem fs prep + pron dem fs Then the king's face was changed in him, and his thoughts troubled him; and the joints of his loins were loosened, and his knees struck one against another.
- Daniel 7:3 דָּ֥א דָּֽא pron dem fs pron dem fs Four great animals came up from the sea, diverse one from another.
- Daniel 7:8 דָ֔א pron dem fs I considered the horns, and, behold, there came up among them another horn, a little one, before which three of the first horns were plucked up by the roots: and, behold, in this horn were eyes like the eyes of a man, and a mouth speaking great things.
About this entry
At a glance — auto-summarized from this page’s data, not written by a person. Every figure links to its source below. This summary describes the numbers; it doesn’t interpret them.
At its core, דא (dâʼ) means “this.” The Hebrew Bible uses it only 4 verses. Its uses cluster heavily in Daniel (100% of all occurrences). First canonically at Daniel 4:30, it enters the text early. From the same root come זה, גה and זה. Each statement above links to its evidence; the full detail follows below.
Gloss history
Strong's 1890 vs modern scholarship
About this word
Strong's H1668 catalogs a Hebrew word from the Hebrew Old Testament.
These counts are not copied from any lexicon or concordance. They are computed here, from the morphology-tagged Hebrew Old Testament. What Lemma adds →
- 4
- distinct verses
- The word appears in 4 distinct verses.
- 1 / 39
- OT books
- The word appears in 1 of 39 Old Testament books.
- #3,040
- by frequency
- Top 5000 most frequent Hebrew words (rank 3,040 of 8,640 Hebrew words by occurrence).
View all 4 occurrences in the concordance →
Most concentrated in
- Daniel 4 verses 100%
By section of the Old Testament
By traditional corpus
Conventional, traditional groupings — biblical authorship is debated, so this is a traditional corpus grouping, not an authorship claim. Each share is this word’s portion of its verses in that division of the Hebrew canon. Each figure is a share of the word’s 4 distinct verses.
- Writings (Ketuvim) 4 verses · 100%
How translations render this word
Counts come from each version’s own published word-to-Strong’s tagging or interlinear alignment — an approximate guide to how each version renders this word, not a word-level alignment the data otherwise carries. Because each total is that version’s own tagged count, the per-version totals vary from one another and need not match the appearance or distinct-verse counts above. These counts may also differ from a printed concordance because Lemma counts each distinctly tagged rendering and does not collapse phrase taggings into a single head-word total. This is a fixed set of word-tagged versions (KJV, ASV, BSB, ULT) and does not change with the reading translation you choose elsewhere. Each version’s license is shown beside its name below (and on Sources).
- King James Version: One 2×
- American Standard Version: One 2×
- Berean Standard Bible: Each one 1×, Is this 1×, Knocked together 1×
- unfoldingWord Literal Text: Each one 2×, Other 2×, This 2×
King James Version Public Domain
Renders H1668 across 5 tagged occurrences — most commonly:
Plus 3 renderings that appear only once — usually multi-word phrases or single function words the recovered tagging swept in, not distinct renderings. Not rendered by a distinct English word in 1 further occurrence.
American Standard Version Public Domain
Renders H1668 across 5 tagged occurrences — most commonly:
Plus 3 renderings that appear only once — usually multi-word phrases or single function words the recovered tagging swept in, not distinct renderings.
Berean Standard Bible Public Domain
Renders H1668 across 5 tagged occurrences — most commonly:
Not rendered by a distinct English word in 1 further occurrence.
unfoldingWord Literal Text CC BY-SA 4.0
Renders H1668 across 8 tagged occurrences — most commonly:
Senses in BDB
The 1 sense BDB distinguishes for this word, in lexicon order (not ranked by frequency or importance). The full entry — with sub-senses — is in the Lexicon Entry tab.
- this, one ... to ... another
Word origin
דָּא demonstr.pr.f. this
— Brown-Driver-Briggs (Oxford 1906, public domain), digitized via Sefaria, supplemented by the OpenScriptures HebrewLexicon (CC BY 4.0). See Sources.
Derived from זה (zeh) (H2088).
Jastrow Dictionary
A second Hebrew/Aramaic lexicon for comparison, covering Aramaic and post-biblical (Talmudic, Targumic, Midrashic) usage that the biblical-Hebrew BDB does not. Matched by lemma rather than by Strong’s number, so a lemma may carry more than one Jastrow headword (shown separately below), and the entries cover usage well beyond the Bible.
דָּא I
- (= h. זוֹ, זֹאת) this; with prefix ה, (הֲדָא) הָדָא, cmp. אָדָא I. Targ. Gen. II, 23; a. fr.—Ned. 41ᵃ (prov.) דְּדָא ביה וכ׳ in whom there is this (wisdom), in him there is everything.—דא ודא this and that, both. Sabb. 52ᵇ ד׳ וד׳ (אחת) חדא היא all sorts of rings come under the same law; a. fr.—Y. Succ. I, 52ᶜ top הדא אמרה היא הדא וכ׳ this proves &c., v. אָדָא I.—הדא היא דכתיב (abbr. הה"ד) it is this which Scripture says, thus we read. Y. Sot. I, 17ᵇ bot.; Gen. R. s. 2; a. v. fr.—Y. Gitt. IV, 45ᵈ bot. introduced his lecture בדה with this.—לא בְדָא not in this case, i.e. the law does not apply to this. Y. Ber. I, 2ᵇ bot.; a. fr.—Y. Taan. II, 66ᵃ bot. לא בדא הלכה וכ׳ not in this case is the practice in agreement with the anonymous opinion.
דָּא II
- da da, the camel-drivers’ call. Pes. 112ᵇ. [דא, Cant. R. to II, 15, v. בלטוורא.]
A Dictionary of the Targumim, the Talmud Babli and Yerushalmi, and the Midrashic Literature (Marcus Jastrow; London, Luzac, 1903) — Public Domain. Digitized via Sefaria. Digitized via Sefaria. Full attribution on Sources.
Forms in the corpus
The 5 distinct written forms H1668 takes in the Hebrew Bible, most frequent first — each parse links to that state’s occurrences in the concordance. Hebrew forms include their vowel points and cantillation, so a single lemma takes many written forms.
| Form | Parsing | Example | Uses |
|---|---|---|---|
| דָּ֥א | Pronoun, Demonstrative, Feminine, Singular | Daniel 5:6 | 2 |
| דָ֔א | Pronoun, Demonstrative, Feminine, Singular | Daniel 7:8 | 1 |
| דָא | Pronoun, Demonstrative, Feminine, Singular | Daniel 4:30 | 1 |
| דָּֽא | Pronoun, Demonstrative, Feminine, Singular | Daniel 7:3 | 1 |
| לְ/דָ֖א | Pronoun, Demonstrative, Feminine, Singular | Daniel 5:6 | 1 |
Same root — word family
Other BDB entries built from the same root as H1668, grouped by Strong’s listed origin. These share a root / origin per the lexicon — not necessarily a shared meaning. Each links to that word’s own entry.
Derives from
Shares the same root
Derived from this word
Compare all same-root words → Showing 4 of 8 — not the complete family. They share a root, not necessarily a meaning.
Septuagint verse parallels
This word appears in 3 verses that also exist in the Greek Old Testament (Septuagint), out of the 4 Hebrew verses it occurs in. You can read those verses in Greek by switching the Old Testament edition to the Septuagint.
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