דָּדָה
to move slowly
‘to move slowly’ is one of 2 main senses fuller range ↓
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
- Verb
- An action or state-of-being word.
Stem
- Hithpael
- The reflexive or reciprocal stem (the subject acts on itself).
Form
- Imperfect
- An incomplete, ongoing, or future action (“he will / would write”).
Person
- 1st Person
- The speaker (“I / we”).
Gender
- Common
- Either gender — not distinguished for this form.
Number
- Singular
- One.
Every verse where H1718 appears — 2 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.
Psalms 1 verse
Isaiah 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.
דדה — transliterated dâdâh — is a Hebrew verb carrying the sense “to move slowly.” With only 2 verses it sits in the long tail of Hebrew Bible vocabulary. More than half of its appearances fall in Psalms. Debuting at Psalms 42:4, it then recurs through the corpus. The verb spans 2 stems, from Piel to Hithpael. 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 H1718 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 →
- 2
- distinct verses
- The word appears in 2 distinct verses.
- 2 / 39
- OT books
- The word appears in 2 of 39 Old Testament books.
- #4,807
- by frequency
- Top 5000 most frequent Hebrew words (rank 4,807 of 8,640 Hebrew words by occurrence).
View all 2 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 2 distinct verses.
- Prophets (Nevi'im) 1 verse · 50%
- Writings (Ketuvim) 1 verse · 50%
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: I shall go softly 1×, I went 1×
- American Standard Version: Himself hath done it 1×, Led 1×
- Berean Standard Bible: I will walk slowly 1×, Leading 1×
- unfoldingWord Literal Text: I led them in procession 1×, I will walk slowly 1×
King James Version Public Domain
Renders H1718 across 2 tagged occurrences — most commonly:
American Standard Version Public Domain
Renders H1718 across 2 tagged occurrences — most commonly:
Berean Standard Bible Public Domain
Renders H1718 across 2 tagged occurrences — most commonly:
unfoldingWord Literal Text CC BY-SA 4.0
Renders H1718 across 2 tagged occurrences — most commonly:
Senses in the full BDB
Hebrew verbs can shift meaning by stem (binyan): Qal is the basic action, Niphal is often passive or reflexive, Piel often intensifies or makes it factitive, and Hiphil is typically causative. The senses below are grouped under the stem BDB assigns to each. This entry also uses Hithpael (reflexive or reciprocal).
What do BDB’s symbols mean?
BDB uses these scholarly abbreviations:
| Symbol | Meaning |
|---|---|
| 𝔊 | the Septuagint (the ancient Greek translation, LXX) |
| 𝔙 | the Vulgate (the Latin translation) |
| 𝔖 | the Syriac version (the Peshitta) |
| 𝔗 | the Targum (the Aramaic translation) |
| ψ | the Psalms |
| √ | root (the underlying root or stem) |
| ‖ | parallel passage (a synonymous or contrasted parallel) |
| † | the dagger: every passage where the word occurs is cited |
The 2 senses and sub-senses the full Brown-Driver-Briggs lexicon distinguishes for this word, in lexicon order (not ranked by frequency), with BDB’s own verbatim wording and sub-sense lettering. Shown in Hebrew script with BDB’s own scholarly abbreviations. The condensed entry is in the Lexicon Entry tab. See also the Forms in the corpus table below.
Piel
- . lead slowly
Hithpael
- . walk deliberately, at ease, or as in procession
Senses from the full Brown-Driver-Briggs lexicon (Brown, Driver, Briggs; Oxford 1906 — public domain), digitized via Sefaria, supplemented by the OpenScriptures HebrewLexicon (CC BY 4.0). Full attribution on Sources.
Word origin
[ דָּדָה ] vb. [ move slowly ]
— Brown-Driver-Briggs (Oxford 1906, public domain), digitized via Sefaria, supplemented by the OpenScriptures HebrewLexicon (CC BY 4.0). See Sources.
Origin: a doubtful root
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.
דֹּדָה
- , v. דּוֹד
דָדָה
- , v. דדי
דדי
- to move nimbly, hop, trip.—Pl. דִּדָּה
- 1. to walk, pull (a young child or beast unable to walk by itself). Sabb. XVIII, 2 מְדַדִּין עגלין וכ׳ you may lead or pull calves &c. (on the Sabbath). Ib. אשה מְדַדָּה וכ׳ a mother may walk her child. Ib. 128ᵇ דוחין אין מדדין לא push you may, but make them hop, no. Pes. IV, 7 (55ᵇ) מְדַרִּין ומחזירין וכ׳ Ar. (ed. only מחזירין). Sabb. 88ᵇ and the angels מְדַדִּין אותך led them (the frightened Israelites) back; א"ת ידודון אלא יְדַדּוּן read not (Ps. LXVIII, 13) yiddodun but y’daddun (they led them). Cant. R. to VIII, 11 the angels מְדַדִּין להם וכ׳ led the Israelites away, והיו מִדַּדִּין לפני וכ׳ and they themselves tripped timidly before the Lord, v. infra. Y. Sabb. XVII, end, 16ᵇ; Y. Erub. X, 26ᶜ top מְדַדֵּהוּ וכ׳ he makes the bolt slide with his finger tips. Cant. R. to IV, 8 [read:] אדין מְדַדֵּם ואינם וכ׳ He had just been leading them (through the Red Sea), and they should not trust?—ד׳ פיתקין to shake stones (ballots), i.e. to protest against. Esth. R. to I, 2 מה"ש מְדַדִּין פיתקין וכ׳ the angels protested against the Lord’s decision; Cant. R. to VIII, 11 יִדּוֹדוּן בהם ממדדין פיטקין (read מדדין) they (the angels) were excited against them, they protested (ref. to Joel IV, 3). e.g. Psalms 68:13
- to hop, trip (of young or tied birds). B. Mets. 25ᵇ אי מִידַּדִּין Ms. M. (ed. אי בְמִדַּ׳) if the tied birds (deposited in a certain place) hop from spot to spot. B. Bath. 23ᵇ; Bets. 11ᵃ
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 2 distinct written forms H1718 takes in the Hebrew Bible, most frequent first — each parse links to that stem’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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| אֶדַּדֵּ֗/ם | Verb, Hithpael, Imperfect, 1st Person, Common, Singular | Psalms 42:4 | 1 |
| אֶדַּדֶּ֥ה | Verb, Hithpael, Imperfect, 1st Person, Common, Singular | Isaiah 38:15 | 1 |
Septuagint verse parallels
This word appears in 2 verses that also exist in the Greek Old Testament (Septuagint), out of the 2 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
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.
