דְּדָן
Dedan
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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
- 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 H1719 appears in the Book of 1 Chronicles — 2 distinct verses. 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 Chronicles
- 1 Chronicles 1:9 וּ/דְדָֽן conj + n Proper The sons of Cush: Seba, and Havilah, and Sabta, and Raama, and Sabteca. The sons of Raamah: Sheba, and Dedan.
- 1 Chronicles 1:32 וּ/דְדָֽן conj + n Proper The sons of Keturah, Abraham's concubine: she bore Zimran, and Jokshan, and Medan, and Midian, and Ishbak, and Shuah. The sons of Jokshan: Sheba, and Dedan.
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.
“Dedan” is the headline sense of the Hebrew name דדן (Dᵉdân). First canonically at Genesis 10:7, it enters the text early. With 10 verses in 4 books, it is an uncommon word in the Hebrew Bible. It concentrates in Ezekiel, which alone accounts for 40% of its uses. The sections below give every occurrence and version rendering.
Gloss history
Strong's 1890 vs modern scholarship
About this word
Strong's H1719 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 →
- 10
- distinct verses
- The word appears in 10 distinct verses.
- 4 / 39
- OT books
- The word appears in 4 of 39 Old Testament books.
- #2,210
- by frequency
- Top 2500 most frequent Hebrew words (rank 2,210 of 8,640 Hebrew words by occurrence).
View all 10 occurrences in the concordance →
Most concentrated in
- Ezekiel 4 verses 40%
- Genesis 2 verses 20%
- 1 Chronicles 2 verses 20%
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 10 distinct verses.
- Prophets (Nevi'im) 6 verses · 60%
- Torah (Pentateuch) 2 verses · 20%
- Writings (Ketuvim) 2 verses · 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).
BDB lists this Strong’s number as 2 distinct words (homographs). Each count above pools all of them and is not split by sense — see the Senses section below. A low-frequency rendering may belong to a different one of those words, not the primary meaning.
- King James Version†: Dedan 10×
- American Standard Version†: Dedan 11×
- Berean Standard Bible†: Dedan 11×
- unfoldingWord Literal Text†: Dedan 9×
King James Version Public Domain
Renders H1719 across 11† 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 H1719 across 11† tagged occurrences — most commonly:
Berean Standard Bible Public Domain
Renders H1719 across 11† tagged occurrences — most commonly:
unfoldingWord Literal Text CC BY-SA 4.0
Renders H1719 across 10† 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 the full BDB
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.
דדן I loc. & gent.
- 1. under fig. of son of רַעֲמָה and grandson of כּוּשׁ (v. these arts.) Gn 10:7 (brother of שְׁבָא) = 1 Ch 1:9 Ez 27:20; cf. בְּנֵי ד׳ v 15 (but read here perhaps רדן 𝔊 υἱοὶ Ῥοδίων, cf. StaDe Pop. Javan. 11, also 𝔖 ܕܪܢ, Co; v. sub דֹּדָנִים infr.) cf. also Ez 38:13, שְׁבָא וּד׳;. south-Arabian tribe on Persian Gulf, = Sab. בנו דדן according to DHMZMG 1876, 122; Sab. Denkm. 28 (dubit. Mordt); but in NW. of Arabian peninsula, GlaserSkizze ii. 391 ff.; perhaps orig. further south cf. Di Je 25:23. e.g. Genesis 10:7
- 2. as son of יָקְשָׁן, father of אַשּׁוּרִם etc., Gn 10:7(×2) (here also brother of שְׁבָא) = Gn 25:3; 1 Ch 1:32 יֹשְׁבֵי ד׳; also Je 49:8. This is appar. a northern branch of 1, cf. Di Gn 25:3.—On דדן in MI31, 31 cf. Sm & SoMI p. 29 NöLCB Jan. 8, 1887 Cl GannJAs. Jan. 1887, 107. e.g. Genesis 10:7
דדן II only pl. as subst. אֹרְחוֹת דְּדָנִים Is 21
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
I. n.pr.loc. & gent.;—ד׳ Gn 10:7 + 8 times + Ez 27:20 (but v. infr.) c. ה loc. דְּדָ֫נֶה Ez 25:13 cf. Ges§ 90, 2 ad fin.;—
I. adj.gent. only pl. as subst. אֹרְחוֹת דְּדָנִים Is 21:13.
— Brown-Driver-Briggs (Oxford 1906, public domain), digitized via Sefaria, supplemented by the OpenScriptures HebrewLexicon (CC BY 4.0). See Sources.
Origin: of uncertain derivation
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.
דָּן
- (b. h.)
- 1. pr. n. m. Dan, son of Jacob. Pes. 4ᵃ מדן קאתי he is a descendant of Dan; a. e.
- 2. pr. n. pl. Dan in northern Palestine. Pesik. Shek. p. 15ᵃ מזבח שבדן the altar (erected by Jeroboam) in Dan.—Targ. Y. II, Num. XXXIV, 15. Targ. Cant. V, 4; Pirké d’R. El. ch. XXVII expl. = פמיאס, Paneas; Midr. Sam. ch. XXX; XXXII דנה (יען) פנייס.—Y. Dem. II, 22ᶜ bot. כְּפר דָּן.
- 3. name of an idol Dan. Sabb. 67ᵇ; Tosef. ib. VII (VIII), 3; Y. ib. VI, 8ᶜ bot. (ref. to Am. VIII, 14). e.g. Amos 8:14
דֵּן
- c. (cmp. דָּא, דֵּךְ) this, that. Targ. Is. VI, 3. Targ. Deut. II, 3 הָדֵן (ed. Berl. הָדֵין = הָא ד׳); a. v. fr.—Lev. R. s. 7 מן הד׳ קריא from this verse (it is proven). Lev. R. s. 8 ד׳ אמר לינא בעיא לד׳ וכ׳ the one said, I do not want this (woman) &c. Sabb. 112ᵇ לית ד׳ ב"א this is not (an ordinary) human being; ib. כגון ד׳ וכ׳ a man like this is worth the name of a human being; a. fr.—Y. Ab. Zar. II, 41ᵈ bot.; a. e. אסיר לך דנא this (piece) is forbidden to thee.—מן קדמת דנא ere this, formerly. Y. Sot. II, 17ᵈ; a. e.—כְּדֵ׳ a) = h. פֹּה, here (cmp. כָּא, הָכָא). Targ. Jud. XVIII, 3. Targ. Is. XXII, 16 (some ed. בְּדֵין); b) like this, thus. Targ. Gen. XXXII, 4. Targ. Jud. XVIII, 4; a. fr. [Targ. Ps. II, 10 read; כְּדוּן.]—B. Bath. 75ᵃ (play on כדכד, Is. LIV, 12) ליהוי כד׳ וכד׳ let it be as this one says, and as that one; Pesik. Aniy. p. 135ᵇ; Pesik. R. s. 32.—בִּכְדֵין in this manner. Targ. I Kings XXII, 20.—מָדֵין = h. מַה־זֶּה, why. Targ. Jer. XXVI, 9; a. e.—אֵי מִדֵּין from what, which. Targ. Jon. I, 8.—דֵּינוּ (= דֵּין הוּ) this. Y. Erub. VII, 24ᶜ top, a. e. חֵי ד׳ צד וכ׳ (= h. אֵיזֶהוּ) which is ‘side’, and which &c.?, v. הַיְידְּנוּ.—Pl. דֵּינוּן, דֵּינֵי. Y. Snh. IV, 22ᵇ bot. הי ד׳ וכ׳ which are the two additional ones?—[הָדֵין then, v. הֵידֵין.] e.g. Isaiah 54:12
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 8 distinct written forms H1719 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| וּ/דְדָֽן | Noun, Proper | Genesis 10:7 | 3 |
| דְּדָ֑ן | Noun, Proper | Genesis 25:3 | 2 |
| דְדָ֔ן | Noun, Proper | Genesis 25:3 | 1 |
| דְדָן֙ | Noun, Proper | Ezekiel 27:15 | 1 |
| דְּדָ֤ן | Noun, Proper | Jeremiah 25:23 | 1 |
| דְּדָן֙ | Noun, Proper | Ezekiel 27:20 | 1 |
| וּ/דְדָ֖נֶ/ה | Noun, Proper | Ezekiel 25:13 | 1 |
| וּ֠/דְדָן | Noun, Proper | Ezekiel 38:13 | 1 |
Same root — word family
Other BDB entries built from the same root as H1719, 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.
Proper names from this root
People and places named from this root — a name, not an additional meaning of the word.
Compare all same-root words → 1 of the same-root words is a proper name (a person or place). They share a root, not necessarily a meaning.
Bible dictionary
Public-domain dictionary articles matched to this entry by name (Dedan). 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
Low ground. (1.) A son of Raamah (Gen. 10:7). His descendants are mentioned in Isa. 21:13, and Ezek. 27:15. They probably settled among the sons of Cush, on the north-west coast of the Persian Gulf.
(2.) A son of Jokshan, Abraham's son by Keturah (1 Chr. 1:32). His descendants settled on the Syrian borders about the territory of Edom. They probably led a pastoral life.
Smith's Bible Dictionary · William Smith, 1863
(low country).
+ The name of a son of Raamah, son of Cush. (Genesis 10:7; 1 Chronicles 1:9) + A son of Jokshan, son of Keturah. (Genesis 25:3; 1 Chronicles 1:32) (B.C. after 1988.)
Hitchcock's Bible Names Dictionary · Roswell D. Hitchcock, 1869
their breasts; friendship; a judge
Classic public-domain reference works; full attribution on Sources.
Septuagint verse parallels
This word appears in 9 verses that also exist in the Greek Old Testament (Septuagint), out of the 10 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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