דָּגָן
wheat
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Grammar key — what these labels mean
Part of speech
- Noun
- A naming word — a person, place, thing, or idea.
Noun type
- Common
- A common noun — a general class of person, place, or thing (“king,” “city,” “water”), not a specific name.
State
- Absolute
- The independent form of a noun, not bound to a following word.
- Construct
- A noun bound to a following noun in a possessive / “of” relationship (the construct chain).
Gender
- Masculine
- Grammatically masculine.
Number
- Singular
- One.
Grammatical forms
- Noun, Common, Masculine, Singular, Absolute 30 times (75%)
- Noun, Common, Masculine, Singular, Construct 10 times (25%)
Parsed forms decoded from the imported morphology (morphhb / Westminster Leningrad Codex — WLC text public domain, morphhb tagging CC BY 4.0), counted across 40 parsed occurrences — not distinct verses.
Every verse where H1715 appears — 40 distinct verses across 15 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.
Genesis 2 verses
- Genesis 27:28 דָּגָ֖ן n c ms God give you of the dew of the sky, of the fatness of the earth, and plenty of grain and new wine.
- Genesis 27:37 וְ/דָגָ֥ן conj + n c ms Isaac answered Esau, "Behold, I have made him your lord, and all his brothers have I given to him for servants. With grain and new wine have I sustained him. What then will I do for you, my son?"
Numbers 2 verses
- Numbers 18:12 וְ/דָגָ֑ן conj + n c ms All the best of the oil, and all the best of the vintage, and of the grain, the first fruits of them which they give to Yahweh, to you have I given them.
- Numbers 18:27 כַּ/דָּגָן֙ prep det + n c ms Your heave-offering shall be reckoned to you, as though it were the grain of the threshing floor, and as the fullness of the winepress.
Deuteronomy 7 verses
- Deuteronomy 7:13 דְּגָ֨נְ/ךָ֜ n c ms cs + sfx pers 2ms and he will love you, and bless you, and multiply you; he will also bless the fruit of your body and the fruit of your ground, your grain and your new wine and your oil, the increase of your cattle and the young of your flock, in the land which he swore to your fathers to give you.
- Deuteronomy 11:14 דְגָנֶ֔/ךָ n c ms cs + sfx pers 2ms that I will give the rain of your land in its season, the former rain and the latter rain, that you may gather in your grain, and your new wine, and your oil.
- Deuteronomy 12:17 דְּגָֽנְ/ךָ֙ n c ms cs + sfx pers 2ms You may not eat within your gates the tithe of your grain, or of your new wine, or of your oil, or the firstborn of your herd or of your flock, nor any of your vows which you vow, nor your freewill-offerings, nor the heave-offering of your hand;
- Deuteronomy 14:23 דְּגָֽנְ/ךָ֙ n c ms cs + sfx pers 2ms You shall eat before Yahweh your God, in the place which he shall choose, to cause his name to dwell there, the tithe of your grain, of your new wine, and of your oil, and the firstborn of your herd and of your flock; that you may learn to fear Yahweh your God always.
- Deuteronomy 18:4 דְּגָֽנְ/ךָ֜ n c ms cs + sfx pers 2ms The first fruits of your grain, of your new wine, and of your oil, and the first of the fleece of your sheep, shall you give him.
- Deuteronomy 28:51 דָּגָן֙ n c ms and shall eat the fruit of your cattle, and the fruit of your ground, until you are destroyed; that also shall not leave you grain, new wine, or oil, the increase of your cattle, or the young of your flock, until they have caused you to perish.
- Deuteronomy 33:28 דָּגָ֣ן n c ms Israel dwells in safety, The fountain of Jacob alone, In a land of grain and new wine; Yes, his heavens drop down dew.
2 Kings 1 verse
2 Chronicles 2 verses
- 2 Chronicles 31:5 דָּגָ֗ן n c ms As soon as the commandment came abroad, the children of Israel gave in abundance the first fruits of grain, new wine, and oil, and honey, and of all the increase of the field; and the tithe of all things brought they in abundantly.
- 2 Chronicles 32:28 דָּגָ֖ן n c ms store-houses also for the increase of grain and new wine and oil; and stalls for all manner of animals, and flocks in folds.
Nehemiah 7 verses
- Nehemiah 5:2 דָגָ֖ן n c ms For there were that said, We, our sons and our daughters, are many: let us get grain, that we may eat and live.
- Nehemiah 5:3 דָגָ֖ן n c ms Some also there were that said, We are mortgaging our fields, and our vineyards, and our houses: let us get grain, because of the dearth.
- Nehemiah 5:10 וְ/דָגָ֑ן conj + n c ms I likewise, my brothers and my servants, do lend them money and grain. Please let us leave off this usury.
- Nehemiah 5:11 וְ/הַ/דָּגָן֙ conj + ptcl def.art + n c ms Please restore to them, even this day, their fields, their vineyards, their olive groves, and their houses, also the hundredth part of the money, and of the grain, the new wine, and the oil, that you exact of them.
- Nehemiah 10:39 הַ/דָּגָן֮ ptcl def.art + n c ms For the children of Israel and the children of Levi shall bring the heave-offering of the grain, of the new wine, and of the oil, to the chambers, where are the vessels of the sanctuary, and the priests who minister, and the porters, and the singers: and we will not forsake the house of our God.
- Nehemiah 13:5 הַ/דָּגָן֙ ptcl def.art + n c ms had prepared for him a great chamber, where before they laid the meal-offerings, the frankincense, and the vessels, and the tithes of the grain, the new wine, and the oil, which were given by commandment to the Levites, and the singers, and the porters; and the heave-offerings for the priests.
- Nehemiah 13:12 הַ/דָּגָ֛ן ptcl def.art + n c ms Then brought all Judah the tithe of the grain and the new wine and the oil to the treasuries.
Psalms 3 verses
- Psalms 4:7 דְּגָנָ֖/ם n c ms cs + sfx pers 3mp You have put gladness in my heart, More than when their grain and their new wine are increased.
- Psalms 65:9 דְּ֝גָנָ֗/ם n c ms cs + sfx pers 3mp You visit the earth, and water it. You greatly enrich it. The river of God is full of water. You provide them grain, for so you have ordained it.
- Psalms 78:24 וּ/דְגַן conj + n c ms cs He rained down manna on them to eat, And gave them food from the sky.
Isaiah 2 verses
- Isaiah 36:17 דָּגָן֙ n c ms until I come and take you away to a land like your own land, a land of grain and new wine, a land of bread and vineyards.
- Isaiah 62:8 דְּגָנֵ֨/ךְ n c ms cs + sfx pers 2fs Yahweh has sworn by his right hand, and by the arm of his strength, Surely I will no more give your grain to be food for your enemies; and foreigners shall not drink your new wine, for which you have labored:
Jeremiah 1 verse
Lamentations 1 verse
Ezekiel 1 verse
Hosea 6 verses
- Hosea 2:8 הַ/דָּגָ֖ן ptcl def.art + n c ms For she did not know that I gave her the grain, the new wine, and the oil, And multiplied to her silver and gold, which they used for Baal.
- Hosea 2:9 דְגָנִ/י֙ n c ms cs + sfx pers 1cs Therefore I will take back my grain in its time, And my new wine in its season, And will pluck away my wool and my flax which should have covered her nakedness.
- Hosea 2:22 הַ/דָּגָ֖ן ptcl def.art + n c ms And the earth will respond to the grain, and the new wine, and the oil; And they will respond to Jezreel.
- Hosea 7:14 דָּגָ֧ן n c ms They haven't cried to me with their heart, But they howl on their beds. They assemble themselves for grain and new wine. They turn away from me.
- Hosea 9:1 דָּגָֽן n c ms Don't rejoice, Israel, to jubilation like the nations; For you were unfaithful to your God. You love the wages of a prostitute at every grain threshing floor.
- Hosea 14:7 דָגָ֖ן n c ms Men will dwell in his shade. They will revive like the grain, And blossom like the vine. Their fragrance will be like the wine of Lebanon.
Joel 3 verses
- Joel 1:10 דָּגָ֔ן n c ms The field is laid waste. The land mourns, for the grain is destroyed, The new wine has dried up, And the oil languishes.
- Joel 1:17 דָּגָֽן n c ms The seeds rot under their clods. The granaries are laid desolate. The barns are broken down, for the grain has withered.
- Joel 2:19 הַ/דָּגָן֙ ptcl def.art + n c ms Yahweh answered his people, "Behold, I will send you grain, new wine, and oil, And you will be satisfied with them; And I will no more make you a reproach among the nations.
Haggai 1 verse
Zechariah 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.
דגן (dâgân) is a Hebrew noun most often rendered “wheat.” Where the King James Version says “corn,” newer translations reach for “grain” (Berean Standard Bible); the renderings breakdown has the detail. The Hebrew Bible uses it across 40 verses — moderately common. Debuting at Genesis 27:28, it then recurs through the corpus. Related forms include דגה and דג. The sections below give every sense, occurrence, and version rendering.
Gloss history
Strong's 1890 vs modern scholarship
About this word
Strong's H1715 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 →
- 40
- distinct verses
- The word appears in 40 distinct verses.
- 15 / 39
- OT books
- The word appears in 15 of 39 Old Testament books.
- #909
- by frequency
- Top 1000 most frequent Hebrew words (rank 909 of 8,640 Hebrew words by occurrence).
View all 40 occurrences in the concordance →
Most concentrated in
- Deuteronomy 7 verses 18%
- Nehemiah 7 verses 18%
- Hosea 6 verses 15%
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 40 distinct verses.
- Prophets (Nevi'im) 16 verses · 40%
- Writings (Ketuvim) 13 verses · 33%
- Torah (Pentateuch) 11 verses · 28%
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: Corn 32×, Wheat 2×
- American Standard Version: Grain 32×
- Berean Standard Bible: Grain 38×
- unfoldingWord Literal Text: Grain 37×, And 2×
King James Version Public Domain
Renders H1715 across 39 tagged occurrences — most commonly:
Plus 5 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 H1715 across 39 tagged occurrences — most commonly:
Plus 7 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 H1715 across 39 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. Not rendered by a distinct English word in 1 further occurrence.
unfoldingWord Literal Text CC BY-SA 4.0
Renders H1715 across 41 tagged occurrences — most commonly:
Plus 2 renderings that appear only once — usually multi-word phrases or single function words the recovered tagging swept in, not distinct renderings.
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.
- wheat, cereal, grain, corn
Word origin
n.m. corn, grain (of cereals) (NH id., Sam. ࠃࠂࠍ v. Thes.; cf. Ph. ארצת דגן)—דָּגָן Gn 27:28 + 29 times; cstr. דְּגַן ψ 78:24; sf. דְּגָנִי Ho 2:11, דְּגָֽנְךָ Dt 7:13; 12:17; 14:23; 18:4, דְּגָנֶ֑ךָ Dt 11:14, דְּגָנֵךְ Is 62:8, דְּגָנָם ψ 4:8; 65:10—corn, c. תִּירוֹשׁ must, q.v., Gn 27:28, 37 (both J) ψ 4:8 Is 62:8 Ho 2:11; 7:14; 9:1 Zc 9:17; cf. also Nu 18:27 (P; here, for תירושׁ, מְלֵאָה מִן־הַיָּ֑קֶב), La 2:12 (where יַיִן), Ho 14:8 (where גֶּפֶן & יֵין לְבָנוֹן); ארץ דגן ותירושׁ of land of Canaan Dt 33:28; of land of captiv. (words of the Rabshak) 2 K 18:32 = Is 36:17 (other products, also, named in both); usually c. תירושׁ & יצהר Nu 18:12 Dt 7:13; 11:14; 12:17; 14:23; 18:4; 28:51 2 Ch 31:5 (+ דבשׁ) 32:28 Ne 5:11; 10:40; 13:5, 12 Je 31:12 Ho 2:10, 24 Jo 1:10; 2:19 Hg 1:11; also Jo 1:17 Me; (cf. 2 K 18:32 Is 36:17 supr.); alone, rare and late Ne 5:2, 3, 10 ψ 65:10 Ez 36:29; דְּגַן־שָׁמַיִם ψ 78:24;—of the above the following refer to firstfruits offered to the priests Nu 18:12 (cf. v 27) Dt 18:4 2 Ch 31:5; to tithe Dt 12:17; 14:23 Ne 13:5, 12; to both generally Ne 10:40; to loaning on usury Ne 5:10, 11.
— Brown-Driver-Briggs (Oxford 1906, public domain), digitized via Sefaria, supplemented by the OpenScriptures HebrewLexicon (CC BY 4.0). See Sources.
Derived from דגה (dâgâh) (H1711) — to multiply.
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.
דָּגָן
- v. next w.) pile; grain, bread, bread-stuff. Pesik. R. s. 10 דְּגָנוֹ של עולם are the store of the world. Tosef. Ber. IV, 15; Y. ib. VI, 10ᵇ הד׳ שהוא וכ׳ the more preferable kind of bread. Tosef. l. c. כל שהוא מין שבע ואינו מין ד׳ whatever belongs to the seven produces (Deut. VIII, 8) but not to breadstuffs; Bab. ib. 37ᵇ. Pes. III, 1; a. fr.—Ned. VII, 2 הנודר מן הד׳ וכ׳ he who vows abstinence from dagan, is forbidden dry Egyptian beans, v. next w.—Pl. דְּגָנִים. Pesik. R. s. 41 מנפף את הד׳ swells the grains; (Yalk. Ps. 755 מנפנף את רגליה, read דְּגָנֶיהָ). Tosef. Ber. VII (VI), 8 Var.—בֵּית דָּ׳ pr. n. pl. Beth-Dagan in Judea. Tosef. Ohol. III, 9. [Tosef. Sabb. VII (VIII), 2, v. דָּגוֹן.] e.g. Deuteronomy 8:8
דְּגַן
- , Ithpe. אִידְּגַן to be piled up, stored. Ned. 55ᵃ shall we judge (fr. R. Meir’s opinion VII, 2, v. preced.) כל דמִידְּגַן משמע dagan implies everything which is piled up?—Ber. 47ᵇ; Bets. 13ᵇ האי (אִדְּ׳) אי׳ וכ׳ the one (the piled up) has become dagan, the other (standing in the ears) is not yet dagan (with ref. to Num. XVIII, 27). e.g. Numbers 18:27
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 26 distinct written forms H1715 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.
Same root — word family
Other BDB entries built from the same root as H1715, 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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Shares the same root
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Septuagint verse parallels
This word appears in 32 verses that also exist in the Greek Old Testament (Septuagint), out of the 40 Hebrew verses it occurs in. You can read those verses in Greek by switching the Old Testament edition to the Septuagint.
Read these verses in the Septuagint
- Genesis 27:28
- Numbers 18:12
- Deuteronomy 7:13
- 2 Kings 18:32
- 2 Chronicles 31:5
- Psalms 4:7
- Isaiah 36:17
- Jeremiah 31:12
- Lamentations 2:12
- Ezekiel 36:29
- Hosea 2:8
- Joel 1:10
This is a verse-level parallel only — the same verses exist in both the Hebrew and Greek Old Testaments. No word-level Hebrew↔Greek correspondence is claimed: the data carries no such alignment, so no Greek word is shown as this Hebrew word’s translation. Coverage is not total — the Septuagint omits the deuterocanon and renumbers the Psalms, so some Hebrew verses have no direct Greek parallel.
