דְּדָן
Dᵉdân · H1719 · Hebrew · proper noun · 11 occurrences
Place
This name belongs to 2 people
- Dedanfamily of Raamah2 verses
- Dedanson of Jokshan2 verses
Meanings
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Dedan
Man; son of Raamah; descendant of Ham and Cush, and brother of Sheba
ExamplesGenesis 10:7 The sons of Cush were Seba, Havilah, Sabtah, Raamah, and Sabteca; and the sons of Raamah were Sheba and Dedan.
1 Chronicles 1:9 The sons of Cush were Seba, Havilah, Sabta, Raama, and Sabteca; and the sons of Raama were Sheba and Dedan.
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Dedan
Man; son of Jokshan, and brother of Sheba
ExamplesGenesis 25:3 Jokshan fathered Sheba and Dedan. And the sons of Dedan were Asshurim, Letushim, and Leummim.
1 Chronicles 1:32 The sons of Keturah, Abraham’s concubine, to whom she gave birth, were Zimran, Jokshan, Medan, Midian, Ishbak, and Shuah. And the sons of Jokshan were Sheba and Dedan.
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Dedan
An ethnic group, probably descendants of a man with the same name, who were the inhabitants of a place with the same name in the Arabian peninsula
ExamplesJeremiah 25:23 and to Dedan, Tema, Buz, and all who trim the corners of their hair;
Ezekiel 38:13 “Sheba and Dedan and the merchants of Tarshish with all its villages will say to you, ‘Have you come to capture spoils? Have you assembled your contingent to seize plunder, to carry away silver and gold, to take away livestock and goods, to capture great spoils?’”’
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Dedan
A location in the Arabian peninsula, the home of an ethnic group with the same name
ExamplesJeremiah 49:8 “Flee away, turn back, dwell in the depths, You inhabitants of Dedan, For I will bring the disaster of Esau upon him At the time I punish him.
Ezekiel 25:13 therefore this is what the Lord GOD says: “I will also reach out with My hand against Edom and eliminate human and animal life from it. And I will turn it into ruins; from Teman even to Dedan they will fall by the sword.
Ezekiel 27:15 “The sons of Dedan were your traders. Many coastlands were your market; they brought ivory tusks and ebony as your payment.
How it’s used In 5 roles
Every occurrence, grouped by the words it is grammatically related to.
the word studied the word it goes with
What it doesIt is the subject
1 occurrences in 1 groups
- אָמַרto say 1
What is done to itIt is the object
1 occurrences in 1 groups
- יָלַדto bear 1
What it is said to bePredicate
1 occurrences in 1 groups
- רָכַלto trade, merchant 1
What is said to be itIt is the predicate
3 occurrences in 1 groups
- בֵּןson 3
In phrases “… of it”It is the genitive
3 occurrences in 2 groups
- בֵּןson 2
- יָשַׁבto dwell, to live, to sit 1
When two words share a role, as in “Paul and Barnabas said”, the verse appears under each, so a section’s counts can add up to more than the number of occurrences.
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Semantic domains 3 entries
- Names of People003001007
- דְּדָן names an individual ancestor, a son of Raamah and grandson of Cush, and separately a son of Jokshan and grandson of Abraham, in the Genesis genealogies.
- Names of Groups003001006
- דְּדָן also names the people descended from this ancestor, a tribal or trading people associated with Sheba and mentioned among the nations in prophetic oracles.
- Names of Locations003001010
- דְּדָן further denotes the territory or trading region associated with this people, referenced in the prophets alongside other Arabian trading centers.
Brown-Driver-Briggs Hebrew Lexicon H1719. Dedan or Dedaneh דְּדָן proper name, of a location & a people; — ׳ד Gen 10:7-8t. +…
or Dedaneh דְּדָן proper name, of a location & a people; — ׳ד Gen 10:7-8t. + Eze 27:20 (but see below) with ה locative דְּדָ֫נֶה Eze 25:13 compare Ges§ 90, 2 near the end; —
1 under figure of son of רַעֲמָה and grandson of כּוּשׁ (see these arts.) Gen 10:7 (brother of שְׁבָא) = 1Ch 1:9; Eze 27:20; compare ד ׳בְּנֵי Eze 27:15 (but read here perhaps ᵐ5 רדן υιὁὶ Ῥοδίων, compare StaDe Pop. Javan. 11, also ᵑ6 Co; see below דֹּדָנִים below) compare also Eze 38:13, וּד ׳שְׁבָא; south-Arabian tribe on Persian Gulf, = Sabean דדן בנו according to DHMZMG 1876, 122; Sab. Denkm. 28 (dubit. Mordt); but in northwest of Arabian peninsula, GlaserSkizze ii. 391 ff.; perhaps originally further south compare Di Gen 10:7.
2 as son of יָקְשָׁן father of אַשּׁוּרִם etc., Gen 25:3 (twice in verse) (here also brother of שְׁבָא) = 1Ch 1:32; Jer 25:23; Jer 49:8 ד ׳ישְׁבֵי. This is apparently a northern branch of 1, compare Di Gen 25:3. — On דדן in MI31, 31 compare Sm & SoMI p. 29 NöLCB Jan. 8, 1887 ClGannJAssyrian Jan. 1887. 107.
דְּדָ֫נֶה see דְּדָןָ.
רֹדָן proper name, of a location or a people Rhodes, Rhodians, so read, ר ׳בְּנֵי Eze 27:15 (for דְּדָן בְּנֵי ᵑ0, see ׳ד 1), ᵐ5 Sta Co Berthol Toy Krae.
Brown, Driver and Briggs, A Hebrew and English Lexicon of the Old Testament (1906), public domain
Topical studies with this word 3 entries
Meanings adapted from the UBS Dictionary of the Greek New Testament, © United Bible Societies, CC BY-SA 4.0 and the UBS Dictionary of Biblical Hebrew (from the Semantic Dictionary of Biblical Hebrew), © United Bible Societies, CC BY-SA 4.0; MACULA Greek Linguistic Datasets, available at https://github.com/Clear-Bible/macula-greek/, licensed CC BY 4.0; MACULA Hebrew Linguistic Datasets © 2022-2024 by Biblica, Inc., CC BY 4.0. Westminster Leningrad Codex (tanach.us). OpenScriptures Hebrew Bible morphology (hb.openscriptures.org), CC BY 4.0.
Sources
eRhema lexical overview, based on the UBS Dictionary of Biblical Hebrew and the UBS Dictionary of the Greek New Testament (© United Bible Societies, CC BY-SA 4.0) and Macula Hebrew and Greek (Clear Bible, CC BY 4.0); released under CC BY-SA 4.0
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