חַד
a
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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
- Adjective
- A word that describes or qualifies a noun.
- Noun
- A naming word — a person, place, thing, or idea.
Noun type
- Common
- A common noun — a general class of person, place, or thing (“king,” “city,” “water”), not a specific name.
State
- Absolute
- The independent form of a noun, not bound to a following word.
Gender
- Feminine
- Grammatically feminine.
- Masculine
- Grammatically masculine.
Number
- Singular
- One.
Grammatical forms
- Adjective, Cardinal number, Feminine, Singular, Absolute 8 times (57%)
- Adjective, Cardinal number, Masculine, Singular, Absolute 4 times (29%)
- Adjective, Ordinal number, Masculine, Singular, Absolute 1 time (7%)
- Noun, Common, Feminine, Singular, Absolute 1 time (7%)
Parsed forms decoded from the imported morphology (morphhb / Westminster Leningrad Codex — WLC text public domain, morphhb tagging CC BY 4.0), counted across 14 parsed occurrences — not distinct verses.
Every verse where H2298 appears — 14 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.
Ezra 4 verses
- Ezra 4:8 חֲדָ֖ה adj Cardinal number fs Rehum the chancellor and Shimshai the scribe wrote a letter against Jerusalem to Artaxerxes the king in this sort:
- Ezra 5:13 חֲדָ֔ה adj Cardinal number fs But in the first year of Cyrus king of Babylon, Cyrus the king made a decree to build this house of God.
- Ezra 6:2 חֲדָ֑ה adj Cardinal number fs There was found at Achmetha, in the palace that is in the province of Media, a scroll, and therein was thus written for a record:
- Ezra 6:3 חֲדָ֜ה adj Cardinal number fs In the first year of Cyrus the king, Cyrus the king made a decree: Concerning the house of God at Jerusalem, let the house be built, the place where they offer sacrifices, and let the foundations of it be strongly laid; the height of it sixty cubits, and the breadth of it sixty cubits;
Daniel 10 verses
- Daniel 2:9 חֲדָה adj Cardinal number fs But if you don't make known to me the dream, there is but one law for you; for you have prepared lying and corrupt words to speak before me, until the time be changed: therefore tell me the dream, and I shall know that you can show me the interpretation of it.
- Daniel 2:31 חַד֙ adj Cardinal number ms You, O king, saw, and, behold, a great image. This image, which was mighty, and whose brightness was excellent, stood before you; and the aspect of it was awesome.
- Daniel 2:35 כַ/חֲדָ֡ה prep + Adjective Cardinal number fs Then was the iron, the clay, the brass, the silver, and the gold, broken in pieces together, and became like the chaff of the summer threshing floors; and the wind carried them away, so that no place was found for them: and the stone that struck the image became a great mountain, and filled the whole earth.
- Daniel 3:19 חַ֨ד adj Cardinal number ms Then was Nebuchadnezzar full of fury, and the form of his visage was changed against Shadrach, Meshach, and Abednego: [therefore] he spoke, and commanded that they should heat the furnace seven times more than it was wont to be heated.
- Daniel 4:19 חֲדָ֔ה adj Cardinal number fs Then Daniel, whose name was Belteshazzar, was stricken mute for a while, and his thoughts troubled him. The king answered, Belteshazzar, don't let the dream, or the interpretation, trouble you. Belteshazzar answered, My lord, the dream be to those who hate you, and the interpretation of it to your adversaries.
- Daniel 6:2 חַֽד adj Cardinal number ms and over them three presidents, of whom Daniel was one; that these satraps might give account to them, and that the king should have no damage.
- Daniel 6:17 חֲדָ֔ה n c fs A stone was brought, and laid on the mouth of the den; and the king sealed it with his own signet, and with the signet of his lords; that nothing might be changed concerning Daniel.
- Daniel 7:1 חֲדָ֗ה adj Cardinal number fs In the first year of Belshazzar king of Babylon Daniel had a dream and visions of his head on his bed: then he wrote the dream and told the sum of the matters.
- Daniel 7:5 חַד֙ adj Cardinal number ms Behold, another animal, a second, like a bear; and it was raised up on one side, and three ribs were in its mouth between its teeth: and they said thus to it, Arise, devour much flesh.
- Daniel 7:16 חַד֙ adj Ordinal number ms I came near to one of those who stood by, and asked him the truth concerning all this. So he told me, and made me know the interpretation of the things.
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 adjective חד centers on the idea of “a.” The word gravitates to Daniel (71%), then Ezra. It appears 14 verses across 2 books of the Hebrew Bible, among its uncommon vocabulary. Its earliest occurrence is Ezra 4:8. Lexicons map it across 3 senses. For the data behind this summary, explore the sense tree and the renderings breakdown below.
Gloss history
Strong's 1890 vs modern scholarship
About this word
Strong's H2298 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 →
- 14
- distinct verses
- The word appears in 14 distinct verses.
- 2 / 39
- OT books
- The word appears in 2 of 39 Old Testament books.
- #1,910
- by frequency
- Top 2500 most frequent Hebrew words (rank 1,910 of 8,640 Hebrew words by occurrence).
View all 14 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 14 distinct verses.
- Writings (Ketuvim) 14 verses · 100%
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 4 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†: A 3×, First 3×, One 3×
- American Standard Version†: A 4×, First 3×, One 2×
- Berean Standard Bible†: A 3×, First 3×, One 3×
- unfoldingWord Literal Text†: One 6×, A 2×
King James Version Public Domain
Renders H2298 across 13† tagged occurrences — most commonly:
Plus 4 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 1 further occurrence.
American Standard Version Public Domain
Renders H2298 across 12† tagged occurrences — most commonly:
Plus 3 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 H2298 across 9† tagged occurrences — most commonly:
Not rendered by a distinct English word in 5 further occurrences.
unfoldingWord Literal Text CC BY-SA 4.0
Renders H2298 across 14† tagged occurrences — most commonly:
Plus 6 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 3 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.
- one (number)
- one
- a (indefinite article)
Word origin
I. adj. = אֶחָד Ez 33:30 del. Co, cf. 𝔊.
IV. adj. sharp—only fs. חַדָּה, of חֶרֶב Ez 5:1; in fig. of tongue ψ 57:5; sim. of mouth Is 49:2; fig. of end of (i.e. final experience with) strange woman ח׳ כְּחֶרֶב פִּיּוֹת Pr 5:4 (‖ מָרָ֯ה כַלַּעֲנָה).—i. חַד v. sub אֶחָד.
— Brown-Driver-Briggs (Oxford 1906, public domain), digitized via Sefaria, supplemented by the OpenScriptures HebrewLexicon (CC BY 4.0). See Sources.
Derived from חד (chad) (H2297) — one.
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.
חַד I
- 1. pointed, sharp. Ḥull. 64ᵃ ראשה אחד חד if one side of the egg is pointed, the other rounded (כַּד); ib. (Chald.) רישיה חד חד.—Pl. חַדִּין. Ib.—Fem. חַדָּה. Snh. 94ᵃ. Ber. 10ᵃ אפי׳ חרב ח׳ וכ׳ even if a sharpened sword is laid on one’s throat, one must not despair of praying for divine mercy. Gen. R. s. 16 (play on ח̇ד̇ק̇ל̇, Gen. II, 14) שהיתה ק̇ל̇ה וח̇ד̇ה וכ׳ (Greece) who was rash and sharp in her decrees. e.g. Genesis 2:14
- 2. swift. Pl. as ab. Ber. 59ᵇ (play on חדקל) its waters ח׳ וקלין are swift and light.—V. חַדָּה.
חַד II
- , חֲדָא c. = h. אֶחָד, one, singular, particular. Targ. Gen. I, 5; a. v. fr.—חד בשבא first day in the week. Targ. II Esth. III, 7.—Targ. Ps. XXVII, 4. Targ. Ez. XVIII, 10 (some ed. חדת); a. fr.—Y. Ab. Zar. I, 39ᵇ bot. בחד בשובא, v. supra. Meg. 11ᵃ, a. fr. חד … וחד וכ׳ one authority …, another authority &c. Ber. 28ᵃ חדא היא לך או חדת וכ׳ is this a unique subject to thee (the only thing learned from R. Joḥ.) or a novel (strange) thing?—Gitt. 44ᵃ; Bekh. 3ᵃ טפי חד one time more (eleven times the value of the sold object); a. v. fr.—[Sabb. 67ᵃ bot. חד חד, v. חַרְחַר.]—כַּחֲדָא [like one,] together, simultaneously. Targ. Ps. II, 2; a. fr.—לַחֲדָא singularly, very much, too much. Targ. Gen. I, 31. Targ. Ps. CXIX, 8; a. fr.
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 10 distinct written forms H2298 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| חֲדָ֔ה | Adjective, Cardinal number, Feminine, Singular, Absolute | Daniel 4:19 | 3 |
| חַד֙ | Adjective, Cardinal number, Masculine, Singular, Absolute | Daniel 2:31 | 3 |
| חֲדָ֑ה | Adjective, Cardinal number, Feminine, Singular, Absolute | Ezra 6:2 | 1 |
| חֲדָ֖ה | Adjective, Cardinal number, Feminine, Singular, Absolute | Ezra 4:8 | 1 |
| חֲדָ֗ה | Adjective, Cardinal number, Feminine, Singular, Absolute | Daniel 7:1 | 1 |
| חֲדָ֜ה | Adjective, Cardinal number, Feminine, Singular, Absolute | Ezra 6:3 | 1 |
| חֲדָה | Adjective, Cardinal number, Feminine, Singular, Absolute | Daniel 2:9 | 1 |
| חַ֨ד | Adjective, Cardinal number, Masculine, Singular, Absolute | Daniel 3:19 | 1 |
| חַֽד | Adjective, Cardinal number, Masculine, Singular, Absolute | Daniel 6:2 | 1 |
| כַ/חֲדָ֡ה | Adjective, Cardinal number, Feminine, Singular, Absolute | Daniel 2:35 | 1 |
Septuagint verse parallels
This word appears in 14 verses that also exist in the Greek Old Testament (Septuagint), out of the 14 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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