עַמִּינָדָב
Amminadab
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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 H5992 appears — 12 distinct verses across 4 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.
Exodus 1 verse
Numbers 5 verses
- Numbers 1:7 עַמִּינָדָֽב n Proper Of Judah: Nahshon the son of Amminadab.
- Numbers 2:3 עַמִּינָדָֽב n Proper Those who encamp on the east side toward the sunrise shall be of the standard of the camp of Judah, according to their divisions: and the prince of the children of Judah shall be Nahshon the son of Amminadab.
- Numbers 7:12 עַמִּינָדָ֖ב n Proper He who offered his offering the first day was Nahshon the son of Amminadab, of the tribe of Judah,
- Numbers 7:17 עַמִּינָדָֽב n Proper and for the sacrifice of peace offerings, two oxen, five rams, five male goats, and five male lambs a year old. This was the offering of Nahshon the son of Amminadab.
- Numbers 10:14 עַמִּינָדָֽב n Proper In the first [place] the standard of the camp of the children of Judah set forward according to their hosts: and over his host was Nahshon the son of Amminadab.
Ruth 2 verses
1 Chronicles 4 verses
- 1 Chronicles 2:10 עַמִּינָדָ֑ב וְ/עַמִּינָדָב֙ n Proper conj + n Proper Ram became the father of Amminadab, and Amminadab became the father of Nahshon, prince of the children of Judah;
- 1 Chronicles 6:22 עַמִּינָדָ֣ב n Proper The sons of Kohath: Amminadab his son, Korah his son, Assir his son,
- 1 Chronicles 15:10 עַמִּינָדָ֣ב n Proper of the sons of Uzziel, Amminadab the chief, and his brothers one hundred twelve.
- 1 Chronicles 15:11 וְ/עַמִּינָדָֽב conj + n Proper David called for Zadok and Abiathar the priests, and for the Levites, for Uriel, Asaiah, and Joel, Shemaiah, and Eliel, and Amminadab,
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.
עמינדב (ʻAmmîynâdâb) is a Hebrew name most often rendered “Amminadab.” Scripture first uses it in Exodus 6:23. Spanning 12 verses in 4 books, it ranks among the uncommon words of the Hebrew Bible. Numbers dominates its distribution — 5 of 12 verses. The sections below give every occurrence and version rendering.
Gloss history
Strong's 1890 vs modern scholarship
About this word
Strong's H5992 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 →
- 12
- distinct verses
- The word appears in 12 distinct verses.
- 4 / 39
- OT books
- The word appears in 4 of 39 Old Testament books.
- #2,001
- by frequency
- Top 2500 most frequent Hebrew words (rank 2,001 of 8,640 Hebrew words by occurrence).
View all 12 occurrences in the concordance →
Most concentrated in
- Numbers 5 verses 42%
- 1 Chronicles 4 verses 33%
- Ruth 2 verses 17%
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 12 distinct verses.
- Torah (Pentateuch) 6 verses · 50%
- Writings (Ketuvim) 6 verses · 50%
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: Amminadab 13×
- American Standard Version: Amminadab 13×
- Berean Standard Bible: Amminadab 13×
- unfoldingWord Literal Text: Amminadab 13×
King James Version Public Domain
Renders H5992 across 13 tagged occurrences — most commonly:
American Standard Version Public Domain
Renders H5992 across 13 tagged occurrences — most commonly:
Berean Standard Bible Public Domain
Renders H5992 across 13 tagged occurrences — most commonly:
unfoldingWord Literal Text CC BY-SA 4.0
Renders H5992 across 13 tagged occurrences — most commonly:
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 4 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.
- 1. Aaron’s father-in-law Ex 6:23; Nu 1:7; 2:3; 7:12, 17; 10:14 (all P), Ru 4:19, 20; 1 Ch 2:10(×2). e.g. Exodus 6:23
- 2. Levites:
- a. 1 Ch 6:7. e.g. 1 Chronicles 6:7
- b. 15:10, 11. e.g. 1 Chronicles 15:10
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
n.pr.m. (my kinsman is noble);—𝔊 Αμ(ε)ιναδαβ:
— Brown-Driver-Briggs (Oxford 1906, public domain), digitized via Sefaria, supplemented by the OpenScriptures HebrewLexicon (CC BY 4.0). See Sources.
Derived from עם (ʻam) (H5971) — people.
Forms in the corpus
The 9 distinct written forms H5992 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| עַמִּינָדָֽב | Noun, Proper | Numbers 1:7 | 4 |
| עַמִּינָדָ֣ב | Noun, Proper | 1 Chronicles 6:22 | 2 |
| וְ/עַמִּֽינָדָב֙ | Noun, Proper | Ruth 4:20 | 1 |
| וְ/עַמִּינָדָֽב | Noun, Proper | 1 Chronicles 15:11 | 1 |
| וְ/עַמִּינָדָב֙ | Noun, Proper | 1 Chronicles 2:10 | 1 |
| עַמִּֽינָדָֽב | Noun, Proper | Ruth 4:19 | 1 |
| עַמִּינָדָ֑ב | Noun, Proper | 1 Chronicles 2:10 | 1 |
| עַמִּינָדָ֖ב | Noun, Proper | Numbers 7:12 | 1 |
| עַמִּינָדָ֛ב | Noun, Proper | Exodus 6:23 | 1 |
Same root — word family
Other BDB entries built from the same root as H5992, 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
Proper names from this root
People and places named from this root — a name, not an additional meaning of the word.
- עמון ʻAmmôwn H5983 Ammon
- עמיאל ʻAmmîyʼêl H5988 Ammiel
- עמיהוד ʻAmmîyhûwd H5989 Ammihud
- עמיזבד ʻAmmîyzâbâd H5990 Ammizabad
- עמיחור ʻAmmîychûwr H5991 Ammihur
- עמי נדיב ʻAmmîy Nâdîyb H5993 Amminadib
- עמישדי ʻAmmîyshadday H5996 Ammishaddai
- עמעד ʻAmʻâd H6008 Amad
- עמרם ʻAmrâm H6019 Amram
- Αμιναδαβ Aminadáb G284 Cainan
Compare all same-root words → Showing 4 of 13 — not the complete family. 10 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 (Amminadab). 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
Kindred of the prince. (1.) The father of Nahshon, who was chief of the tribe of Judah (Num. 1:7; 2:3; 7:12, 17; 10:14). His daughter Elisheba was married to Aaron (Ex. 6:23).
(2.) A son of Kohath, the second son of Levi (1 Chr. 6:22), called also Izhar (2, 18).
(3.) Chief of the 112 descendants of Uzziel the Levite (1 Chr. 15:10, 11).
Smith's Bible Dictionary · William Smith, 1863
(one of the prince's people).
+ Son of Ram or Aram, and father of Nahshon, or Naasson (as it is written) (Matthew 1:4; Luke 3:32); (Numbers 1:7; 2:3; Ruth 4:19,20; 1 Chronicles 2:10) One of the ancestors of Jesus Christ. + The chief of the 112 sons of Uzziel, a Junior Levitical house of the family of the Kohathites. (Exodus 6:23; 1 Chronicles 15:10,11) + In (1 Chronicles 6:22) Izhar, the son of Kohath, is called Amminadib; probably a clerical error.
Hitchcock's Bible Names Dictionary · Roswell D. Hitchcock, 1869
my people is liberal
Classic public-domain reference works; full attribution on Sources.
Septuagint verse parallels
This word appears in 12 verses that also exist in the Greek Old Testament (Septuagint), out of the 12 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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