דָּן

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.

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.

The 26 distinct written forms H1835 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
דָ֔ן	Noun, Proper	Exodus 31:6	9
דָ֖ן	Noun, Proper	Exodus 38:23	9
דָּ֔ן	Noun, Proper	Amos 8:14	6
דָּ֖ן	Noun, Proper	Deuteronomy 33:22	5
דָֽן	Noun, Proper	Exodus 35:34	4
דָּ֥ן	Noun, Proper	Deuteronomy 27:13	4
דָּֽן	Noun, Proper	Deuteronomy 34:1	4
דָ֑ן	Noun, Proper	Judges 13:25	3
מִ/דָּ֖ן	Noun, Proper	1 Kings 4:25	3
מִ/דָּן֙	Noun, Proper	2 Samuel 17:11	3
בְּ/דָֽן	Noun, Proper	1 Kings 12:29	2
דָן֙	Noun, Proper	Genesis 49:17	2
דָּ֗ן	Noun, Proper	Ezekiel 48:2	2
לְ/דָ֕ן	Noun, Proper	1 Chronicles 27:22	2
דָ֛ן	Noun, Proper	Numbers 2:25	1
דָ֞ן	Noun, Proper	Joshua 21:5	1
דָ֠ן	Noun, Proper	Joshua 19:47	1
דָ֣ן	Noun, Proper	Judges 18:2	1
דָּ֑ן	Noun, Proper	1 Chronicles 21:2	1
דָּ֚ן	Noun, Proper	1 Chronicles 2:2	1
דָּ֣ן	Noun, Proper	Judges 18:29	1
וְ/דָ֕ן	Noun, Proper	Judges 5:17	1
וּ/לְ/דָ֣ן	Noun, Proper	Deuteronomy 33:22	1
לְ/מִ/דָּן֙	Noun, Proper	Judges 20:1	1
מִ/דָּ֑ן	Noun, Proper	Jeremiah 4:15	1
מִ/דָּ֤ן	Noun, Proper	Jeremiah 8:16	1

Other BDB entries built from the same root as H1835, 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

• דין dîyn H1777 to judge

Shares the same root

• דין dîyn H1778 to judge
• דין dîyn H1779 judgment
• דין dayân H1781 judge
• מדון mâdôwn H4066 strife
• מדינה mᵉdîynâh H4082 province

Proper names from this root

People and places named from this root — a name, not an additional meaning of the word.

• דני Dânîy H1839 Danites
• דניאל Dânîyêʼl H1840 Daniel
• דן יען Dân Yaʻan H1842 Dan-jaan

Compare all same-root words → Showing 4 of 10 — not the complete family. 3 of the same-root words are proper names (people or places). They share a root, not necessarily a meaning.

Public-domain dictionary articles matched to this entry by name (Dan). 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

A judge. (1.) The fifth son of Jacob. His mother was Bilhah, Rachel's maid (Gen. 30:6, "God hath judged me", Heb. dananni). The blessing pronounced on him by his father was, "Dan shall judge his people" (49:16), probably in allusion to the judgeship of Samson, who was of the tribe of Dan.

The tribe of Dan had their place in the march through the wilderness on the north side of the tabernacle (Num. 2:25, 31; 10:25). It was the last of the tribes to receive a portion in the Land of Promise. Its position and extent are described in Josh. 19:40-48.

The territory of Dan extended from the west of that of Ephraim and Benjamin to the sea. It was a small territory, but was very fertile. It included in it, among others, the cities of Lydda, Ekron, and Joppa, which formed its northern boundary. But this district was too limited. "Squeezed into the narrow strip between the mountains and the sea, its energies were great beyond its numbers." Being pressed by the Amorites and the Philistines, whom they were unable to conquer, they longed for a wider space. They accordingly sent out five spies from two of their towns, who went north to the sources of the Jordan, and brought back a favourable report regarding that region. "Arise," they said, "be not slothful to go, and to possess the land," for it is "a place where there is no want of any thing that is in the earth" (Judg. 18:10). On receiving this report, 600 Danites girded on their weapons of war, and taking with them their wives and their children, marched to the foot of Hermon, and fought against Leshem, and took it from the Sidonians, and dwelt therein, and changed the name of the conquered town to Dan (Josh. 19:47). This new city of Dan became to them a new home, and was wont to be spoken of as the northern limit of Palestine, the length of which came to be denoted by the expression "from Dan to Beersheba", i.e., about 144 miles.

"But like Lot under a similar temptation, they seem to have succumbed to the evil influences around them, and to have sunk down into a condition of semi-heathenism from which they never emerged. The mounds of ruins which mark the site of the city show that it covered a considerable extent of ground. But there remains no record of any noble deed wrought by the degenerate tribe. Their name disappears from the roll-book of the natural and the spiritual Israel.", Manning's Those Holy Fields.

This old border city was originally called Laish. Its modern name is Tell el-Kady, "Hill of the Judge." It stands about four miles below Caesarea Philippi, in the midst of a region of surpassing richness and beauty.

(2.) This name occurs in Ezek 27:19, Authorize Version; but the words there, "Dan also," should be simply, as in the Revised Version, "Vedan," an Arabian city, from which various kinds of merchandise were brought to Tyre. Some suppose it to have been the city of Aden in Arabia. (See MAHANEH-DAN.)

Smith's Bible Dictionary · William Smith, 1863

(a judge).

+ The fifth son of Jacob, and the first of Bilhah, Rachel's maid. (Genesis 30:6) (B.C. after 1753.) The origin of the name is given in the exclamation of Rachel. The records of Dan are unusually meagre. Only one son is attributed to him, (Genesis 46:23) but his tribe was, with the exception of Judah, the most numerous of all. In the division of the promised land Dan was the last of the tribes to receive his portion, which was the smallest of the twelve. (Joshua 19:48) But notwithstanding its smallness it had eminent natural advantages. On the north and east it was completely embraced by its two brother tribes Ephraim and Benjamin, while on the southeast and south it joined Judah, and was thus surrounded by the three most powerful states of the whole confederacy. It was a rich and fertile district; but the Amorites soon "forced them into the mountain," (Judges 1:34) and they had another portion granted them. Judges 18. In the "security" and "quiet," (Judges 18:7,10) of their rich northern possession the Danites enjoyed the leisure and repose which had been denied them in their original seat. In the time of David Dan still kept its place among the tribes. (1 Chronicles 12:35) Asher is omitted, but the "prince of the tribe of Dan" is mentioned in the list of (1 Chronicles 27:22) But from this time forward the name as applied to the tribe vanishes; it is kept alive only by the northern city. In the genealogies of 1Chr 2-12, Dan is omitted entirely. Lastly, Dan is omitted from the list of those who were sealed by the angel in the vision of St. John. (Revelation 7:5-7) + The well-known city, so familiar as the most northern landmark of Palestine, in the common expression "from Dan even to beersheba." The name of the place was originally Laish or Leshem. (Joshua 19:47) After the establishment of the Danites at Dan it became the acknowledged extremity of the country. It is now Tell el-Kadi, a mound, three miles from Banias, from the foot of which gushes out one of the largest fountains in the world, the main source of the Jordan.

Hitchcock's Bible Names Dictionary · Roswell D. Hitchcock, 1869

judgment; he that judges

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This word appears in 62 verses that also exist in the Greek Old Testament (Septuagint), out of the 63 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 14:14
• Exodus 1:4
• Leviticus 24:11
• Numbers 1:12
• Deuteronomy 27:13
• Joshua 19:40
• Judges 1:34
• 1 Samuel 3:20
• 2 Samuel 3:10
• 1 Kings 12:29
• 2 Kings 10:29
• 1 Chronicles 2:2

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.