הֲדַדְעֶ֫זֶר
Hadadezer
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Full lexicon entry — Brown-Driver-Briggs (BDB)
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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 H1909 appears in the Book of 2 Samuel — 9 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.
2 Samuel
- 2 Samuel 8:3 הֲדַדְעֶ֥זֶר n Proper David struck also Hadadezer the son of Rehob, king of Zobah, as he went to recover his dominion at the River.
- 2 Samuel 8:5 לַ/הֲדַדְעֶ֖זֶר prep + n Proper When the Syrians of Damascus came to help Hadadezer king of Zobah, David struck of the Syrians two and twenty thousand men.
- 2 Samuel 8:7 הֲדַדְעָ֑זֶר n Proper David took the shields of gold that were on the servants of Hadadezer, and brought them to Jerusalem.
- 2 Samuel 8:8 הֲדַדְעָ֑זֶר n Proper From Betah and from Berothai, cities of Hadadezer, king David took exceeding much brass.
- 2 Samuel 8:9 הֲדַדְעָֽזֶר n Proper When Toi king of Hamath heard that David had struck all the host of Hadadezer,
- 2 Samuel 8:10 בַּ/הֲדַדְעֶ֨זֶר֙ הֲדַדְעָ֑זֶר prep + n Proper n Proper then Toi sent Joram his son to king David, to Greet him, and to bless him, because he had fought against Hadadezer and struck him: for Hadadezer had wars with Toi. [Joram] brought with him vessels of silver, and vessels of gold, and vessels of brass:
- 2 Samuel 8:12 הֲדַדְעֶ֥זֶר n Proper of Syria, and of Moab, and of the children of Ammon, and of the Philistines, and of Amalek, and of the spoil of Hadadezer, son of Rehob, king of Zobah.
- 2 Samuel 10:16 הֲדַדְעֶ֗זֶר הֲדַדְעֶ֖זֶר n Proper n Proper Hadarezer sent, and brought out the Syrians who were beyond the River: and they came to Helam, with Shobach the captain of the host of Hadarezer at their head.
- 2 Samuel 10:19 הֲדַדְעֶ֗זֶר n Proper When all the kings who were servants to Hadarezer saw that they were put to the worse before Israel, they made peace with Israel, and served them. So the Syrians feared to help the children of Ammon any more.
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.
The Hebrew name הדדעזר centers on the idea of “Hadadezer.” The word gravitates to 2 Samuel (50%), then 1 Chronicles and 1 Kings. It appears 18 verses across 3 books of the Hebrew Bible, among its uncommon vocabulary. Its earliest occurrence is 2 Samuel 8:3. Dig into 18-verse concordance and the renderings breakdown below.
Gloss history
Strong's 1890 vs modern scholarship
About this word
Strong's H1909 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 →
- 18
- distinct verses
- The word appears in 18 distinct verses.
- 3 / 39
- OT books
- The word appears in 3 of 39 Old Testament books.
- #1,462
- by frequency
- Top 2500 most frequent Hebrew words (rank 1,462 of 8,640 Hebrew words by occurrence).
View all 18 occurrences in the concordance →
Most concentrated in
- 2 Samuel 9 verses 50%
- 1 Chronicles 8 verses 44%
- 1 Kings 1 verse 6%
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 18 distinct verses.
- Prophets (Nevi'im) 10 verses · 56%
- Writings (Ketuvim) 8 verses · 44%
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: Hadadezer 8×
- American Standard Version: Hadadezer 7×
- Berean Standard Bible: Hadadezer 16×, Hadadezer’s 3×
- unfoldingWord Literal Text: Hadadezer 21×
King James Version Public Domain
Renders H1909 across 9 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 H1909 across 9 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.
Berean Standard Bible Public Domain
Renders H1909 across 19 tagged occurrences — most commonly:
Not rendered by a distinct English word in 2 further occurrences.
unfoldingWord Literal Text CC BY-SA 4.0
Renders H1909 across 21 tagged occurrences — most commonly:
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.
- Hadadezer = "Hadad is help"
- son of Rehob, a king of Syria-Zobah defeated by David's army
Word origin
n.pr.m. Hadadezer (so Aramaic inscr. הדדעזר EutSBAk 1885, 679 cf. BaeRel. 67; 𝔊 throughout (erroneously) Ἁδρα(α)ζαρ;—Hadad is help(er), cf. COT 1 K 20:1 & Ph. אשמנעזר); king of צוֹבָה (q.v.), son of רְחֹב defeated by David 2 S 8:3, 5, 10, 12; הֲדַדְעָ֑זֶר v 7, 8, 9, 10 (= הֲדַרְעֶזֶר q.v. 10:16(×2), 19 1 Ch 18:3, 5, 7, 8, 10(×2); 19:16, 19, all erron., v. inscr. supr., = cf. Bael.c. Dr on 2 S 8:3; 10:16); also 1 K 11:23.
— Brown-Driver-Briggs (Oxford 1906, public domain), digitized via Sefaria, supplemented by the OpenScriptures HebrewLexicon (CC BY 4.0). See Sources.
Derived from הדד (Hădad) (H1908) — Hadad.
Forms in the corpus
The 8 distinct written forms H1909 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| הֲדַדְעֶ֥זֶר | Noun, Proper | 1 Chronicles 18:3 | 5 |
| הֲדַדְעָ֑זֶר | Noun, Proper | 1 Chronicles 18:7 | 5 |
| הֲדַדְעֶ֗זֶר | Noun, Proper | 1 Chronicles 19:19 | 3 |
| בַּ/הֲדַדְעֶ֨זֶר֙ | Noun, Proper | 1 Chronicles 18:10 | 2 |
| הֲדַדְעֶ֖זֶר | Noun, Proper | 1 Chronicles 19:16 | 2 |
| לַ/הֲדַדְעֶ֖זֶר | Noun, Proper | 1 Chronicles 18:5 | 2 |
| הֲדַדְעֶ֔זֶר | Noun, Proper | 1 Chronicles 18:8 | 1 |
| הֲדַדְעָֽזֶר | Noun, Proper | 2 Samuel 8:9 | 1 |
Same root — word family
Other BDB entries built from the same root as H1909, 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
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 → 2 of the same-root words are proper names (people or places). They share a root, not necessarily a meaning.
Bible dictionary
Public-domain dictionary articles matched to this entry by name (Hadadezer). 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
Hadad is help; called also Hadarezer, Adod is his help, the king of Zobah. Hanun, the king of the Ammonites, hired among others the army of Hadadezer to assist him in his war against David. Joab, who was sent against this confederate host, found them in double battle array, the Ammonities toward their capital of Rabbah, and the Syrian mercenaries near Medeba. In the battle which was fought the Syrians were scattered, and the Ammonites in alarm fled into their capital. After this Hadadezer went north "to recover his border" (2 Sam. 8:3, A.V.); but rather, as the Revised Version renders, "to recover his dominion", i.e., to recruit his forces. Then followed another battle with the Syrian army thus recruited, which resulted in its being totally routed at Helam (2 Sam. 10:17). Shobach, the leader of the Syrian army, died on the field of battle. The Syrians of Damascus, who had come to help Hadadezer, were also routed, and Damascus was made tributary to David. All the spoils taken in this war, "shields of gold" and "very much brass," from which afterwards the "brasen sea, and the pillars, and the vessels of brass" for the temple were made (1 Chr. 18:8), were brought to Jerusalem and dedicated to Jehovah. Thus the power of the Ammonites and the Syrians was finally broken, and David's empire extended to the Euphrates (2 Sam. 10:15-19; 1 Chr. 19:15-19).
Smith's Bible Dictionary · William Smith, 1863
(2 Samuel 8:3-12; 1 Kings 11:23). [Hadarezer]
Hitchcock's Bible Names Dictionary · Roswell D. Hitchcock, 1869
beauty of assistance
Classic public-domain reference works; full attribution on Sources.
Septuagint verse parallels
This word appears in 17 verses that also exist in the Greek Old Testament (Septuagint), out of the 18 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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