דֹּאֵג
Doeg
BDB lists 2 entries for ‘Doeg’ fuller range ↓
Full lexicon entry — Brown-Driver-Briggs (BDB)
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Where this word appears
Grammar key — what these labels mean
Part of speech
- Noun
- A naming word — a person, place, thing, or idea.
Noun type
- Proper
- A name of a specific person, place, or people (e.g. Abraham, Zion, Israel).
Every verse where H1673 appears — 5 distinct verses across 2 books. 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.
1 Samuel 4 verses
- 1 Samuel 21:7 דֹּאֵ֣ג n Proper Now a certain man of the servants of Saul was there that day, detained before Yahweh; and his name was Doeg the Edomite, the best of the herdsmen who belonged to Saul.
- 1 Samuel 22:9 דֹּאֵ֣ג n Proper Then answered Doeg the Edomite, who stood by the servants of Saul, and said, I saw the son of Jesse coming to Nob, to Ahimelech the son of Ahitub.
- 1 Samuel 22:18 ל/דויג לְ/דוֹאֵ֔ג דויג דּוֹאֵ֣ג prep + n Proper prep + n Proper n Proper n Proper The king said to Doeg, Turn you, and fall on the priests. Doeg the Edomite turned, and he fell on the priests, and he killed on that day eighty-five persons who wore a linen ephod.
- 1 Samuel 22:22 דויג דּוֹאֵ֣ג n Proper n Proper David said to Abiathar, I knew on that day, when Doeg the Edomite was there, that he would surely tell Saul: I have occasioned [the death] of all the persons of your father's house.
Psalms 1 verse
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.
דאג (Dôʼêg) is a Hebrew name most often rendered “Doeg.” The Hebrew Bible uses it only 5 verses. 1 Samuel dominates its distribution — 4 of 5 verses. It first appears in 1 Samuel 21:7. The sections below give every occurrence and version rendering.
Gloss history
Strong's 1890 vs modern scholarship
About this word
Strong's H1673 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 →
- 5
- distinct verses
- The word appears in 5 distinct verses.
- 2 / 39
- OT books
- The word appears in 2 of 39 Old Testament books.
- #2,481
- by frequency
- Top 2500 most frequent Hebrew words (rank 2,481 of 8,640 Hebrew words by occurrence).
View all 5 occurrences in the concordance →
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 5 distinct verses.
- Prophets (Nevi'im) 4 verses · 80%
- Writings (Ketuvim) 1 verse · 20%
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: Doeg 5×
- American Standard Version: Doeg 4×
- Berean Standard Bible: Doeg 5×
- unfoldingWord Literal Text: Doeg 4×
King James Version Public Domain
Renders H1673 across 6 tagged occurrences — most commonly:
Plus 1 rendering that appears only once — usually multi-word phrases or single function words the recovered tagging swept in, not distinct renderings.
American Standard Version Public Domain
Renders H1673 across 5 tagged occurrences — most commonly:
Plus 1 rendering that appears only once — usually multi-word phrases or single function words the recovered tagging swept in, not distinct renderings.
Berean Standard Bible Public Domain
Renders H1673 across 6 tagged occurrences — most commonly:
Plus 1 rendering that appears only once — usually multi-word phrases or single function words the recovered tagging swept in, not distinct renderings.
unfoldingWord Literal Text CC BY-SA 4.0
Renders H1673 across 5 tagged occurrences — most commonly:
Plus 1 rendering that appears only once — usually multi-word phrases or single function words the recovered tagging swept in, not distinct renderings.
Senses in BDB
The 2 senses 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.
- Doeg = "fearing"
- an Edomite, chief of Saul's herdsmen, who slew all the priests
Word origin
n.pr.m. an Edomite, servant of Saul 1 S 21:8; 22:9, 18(×2), 22 (v 18(×2), 22 Kt דויג cf. Dr) דּוֹאֵג ψ 52:2 (title).
— Brown-Driver-Briggs (Oxford 1906, public domain), digitized via Sefaria, supplemented by the OpenScriptures HebrewLexicon (CC BY 4.0). See Sources.
Derived from דאג (dâʼag) (H1672) — to fear.
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.
דֹּאֵג
- , v. דּוֹאֵג
דָּאַג
- (b. h.) [to melt,] cmp. דאב a. יצף, to be low-spirited, to sorrow, fear. Snh. 106ᵇ (play on דאג, I Sam. XXI, 8, a. דוֹיֹג, ib. XXII, 18) at first יושב הקב"ה ודוֹאֵג וכ׳ the Lord sat in anxiety, that he (Doeg) might degenerate; after …, He said ו̇וי̇ שיצא זה woe that he did &c. Ber. 40ᵃ יִדְאַג מריח וכ׳ must be in fear of contracting &c. Succ. 29ᵃ. Ḥag. 13ᵃ שלבו דואג בקרבו whose heart within him is in fear of sin (reverential). Sabb. 105ᵇ sq. יִדְאֲגוּ כל האחין all the brothers should feel troubled (examine their ways). Midr. Till. to Ps. XLVIII a man committed a sin והיה דואג בלבו and was troubled in his heart; a. fr. e.g. 1 Samuel 21:8
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 H1673 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| דּוֹאֵ֣ג | Noun, Proper | 1 Samuel 22:18 | 3 |
| דֹּאֵ֣ג | Noun, Proper | 1 Samuel 21:7 | 2 |
| דויג | Noun, Proper | 1 Samuel 22:18 | 2 |
| ל/דויג | Noun, Proper | 1 Samuel 22:18 | 1 |
| לְ/דוֹאֵ֔ג | Noun, Proper | 1 Samuel 22:18 | 1 |
Same root — word family
Other BDB entries built from the same root as H1673, 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.
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Bible dictionary
Public-domain dictionary articles matched to this entry by name (Doeg). A biblical name can be shared by more than one person or place, so an article may treat several.
Easton's Bible Dictionary · M. G. Easton, 1897
Fearful, an Edomite, the chief overseer of Saul's flocks (1 Sam. 21:7). At the command of Saul he slew the high priest Ahimelech (q.v.) at Nob, together with all the priests to the number of eighty-five persons. (Comp. Ps. 52, title.)
Smith's Bible Dictionary · William Smith, 1863
(fearful), an Idumean, chief of Saul's herdmen. (B.C. 1062.) He was at Nob when Ahimelech gave David the sword of Goliath, and not only gave information to Saul, but when others declined the office, himself executed the king's order to destroy the priests of Nob, with their families, to the number of 85 persons, together with all their property. (1 Samuel 21:7; 22:9,18,22; Psalms 52)
Hitchcock's Bible Names Dictionary · Roswell D. Hitchcock, 1869
careful, who acts with uneasiness
Classic public-domain reference works; full attribution on Sources.
Septuagint verse parallels
This word appears in 5 verses that also exist in the Greek Old Testament (Septuagint), out of the 5 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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