דְּנָה
this
‘this’ 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
- Pronoun
- A word standing in for a noun (“he,” “this,” “who”).
- Conjunction
- A joining word (e.g. “and,” “but”) linking words or clauses.
Gender
- Masculine
- Grammatically masculine.
- Common
- Either gender — not distinguished for this form.
Number
- Singular
- One.
- Plural
- More than one (in Hebrew, generally three or more).
Every verse where H1836 appears in the Book of Jeremiah — 1 distinct verse. 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.
Jeremiah
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.
“this” is the headline sense of the Hebrew word דן (dên). More than half of its appearances fall in Daniel. It appears 53 verses across 3 books of the Hebrew Bible, among its moderately common vocabulary. First canonically at Ezra 4:11, it enters the text early. Lexicons map it across 2 senses. The sections below give every sense, occurrence, and version rendering.
Gloss history
Strong's 1890 vs modern scholarship
About this word
Strong's H1836 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 →
- 53
- distinct verses
- The word appears in 53 distinct verses.
- 3 / 39
- OT books
- The word appears in 3 of 39 Old Testament books.
- #658
- by frequency
- Top 1000 most frequent Hebrew words (rank 658 of 8,640 Hebrew words by occurrence).
View all 53 occurrences in the concordance →
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 53 distinct verses.
- Writings (Ketuvim) 52 verses · 98%
- Prophets (Nevi'im) 1 verse · 2%
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: This 37×, These 2×, Thus 2×
- American Standard Version: This 35×, Thus 2×
- Berean Standard Bible: This 28×, The 3×, Matter 2×
- unfoldingWord Literal Text: This 42×, Therefore 5×, Like this 2×
King James Version Public Domain
Renders H1836 across 49 tagged occurrences — most commonly:
Plus 8 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 8 further occurrences.
American Standard Version Public Domain
Renders H1836 across 51 tagged occurrences — most commonly:
Plus 14 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 H1836 across 42 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. Not rendered by a distinct English word in 16 further occurrences.
unfoldingWord Literal Text CC BY-SA 4.0
Renders H1836 across 58 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.
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.
- this, on account of this (demonstrative pronoun feminine)
- therefore (adverb)
Word origin
דְּנָה 57 demonstr.pr.comm. this
— Brown-Driver-Briggs (Oxford 1906, public domain), digitized via Sefaria, supplemented by the OpenScriptures HebrewLexicon (CC BY 4.0). See Sources.
Derived from דך (dêk) (H1791).
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 25 distinct written forms H1836 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| דְּנָ֔ה | Pronoun, Demonstrative, Masculine, Singular | Daniel 6:3 | 6 |
| דְנָ֖ה | Pronoun, Demonstrative, Masculine, Singular | Daniel 2:30 | 6 |
| דְּנָ֑ה | Pronoun, Demonstrative, Masculine, Singular | Daniel 2:18 | 5 |
| דְנָה֙ | Pronoun, Demonstrative, Masculine, Singular | Daniel 5:15 | 4 |
| דְּנָ֖ה | Pronoun, Demonstrative, Masculine, Singular | Daniel 5:22 | 4 |
| דְּנָה֙ | Pronoun, Demonstrative, Masculine, Singular | Daniel 4:18 | 4 |
| דְּנָֽה | Pronoun, Demonstrative, Common, Singular | Ezra 5:5 | 3 |
| דְנָ֑ה | Pronoun, Demonstrative, Masculine, Singular | Daniel 2:29 | 3 |
| דְּנָה֩ | Conjunction | Ezra 7:17 | 2 |
| דְנָ֔ה | Pronoun, Demonstrative, Masculine, Singular | Ezra 6:11 | 2 |
| דְנָ֗ה | Pronoun, Demonstrative, Masculine, Singular | Daniel 5:7 | 2 |
| דְּנָ֗ה | Conjunction | Daniel 2:24 | 2 |
| דְּנָ֣ה | Pronoun, Demonstrative, Masculine, Singular | Daniel 2:36 | 2 |
| דְּנָ֥ה | Pronoun, Demonstrative, Masculine, Singular | Daniel 2:28 | 2 |
| דְנָ֥ה | Pronoun, Demonstrative, Masculine, Singular | Ezra 5:4 | 1 |
| דְנָֽה | Pronoun, Demonstrative, Masculine, Singular | Daniel 2:47 | 1 |
| דְנָה֒ | Pronoun, Demonstrative, Masculine, Singular | Ezra 6:17 | 1 |
| דְּנָ֛ה | Pronoun, Demonstrative, Masculine, Singular | Daniel 3:16 | 1 |
| דְּנָ֜ה | Pronoun, Demonstrative, Masculine, Singular | Daniel 7:6 | 1 |
| דְּנָ֡ה | Conjunction | Daniel 3:7 | 1 |
| וְ/כִ/דְנָה֙ | Pronoun, Demonstrative, Masculine, Singular | Ezra 5:7 | 1 |
| וּ/דְנָ֥ה | Pronoun, Demonstrative, Masculine, Singular | Daniel 5:25 | 1 |
| כִ/דְנָה֙ | Pronoun, Demonstrative, Masculine, Singular | Daniel 2:10 | 1 |
| כִּ/דְנָֽה | Pronoun, Demonstrative, Masculine, Singular | Daniel 3:29 | 1 |
| כִּ/דְנָה֙ | Pronoun, Demonstrative, Common, Singular | Jeremiah 10:11 | 1 |
Same root — word family
Other BDB entries built from the same root as H1836, 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
Shares the same root
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Septuagint verse parallels
This word appears in 49 verses that also exist in the Greek Old Testament (Septuagint), out of the 53 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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