Word

דּוֹדָה

dôwdâh · H1733 · Hebrew · 3 occurrences

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Meanings

  1. paternal aunt

    Kinship term denoting the sister of one's father or the wife of one's father's brother

    Examples

    Exodus 6:20 Now Amram married his father’s sister Jochebed, and she bore him Aaron and Moses; and the length of Amram’s life was 137 years.

    Leviticus 18:14 ‘You shall not uncover the nakedness of your father’s brother. You shall not approach his wife; she is your aunt.

    Leviticus 20:20 ‘If there is a man who sleeps with his uncle’s wife, he has uncovered his uncle’s nakedness; they will bear their sin. They will die childless.

How it’s used In 4 roles

Every occurrence, grouped by the words it is grammatically related to.

the word studied the word it goes with

Whose, or of whatGenitive or possessive

3 occurrences in 2 groups

Named alongside itApposition

1 occurrences in 1 groups

What is said to be itIt is the predicate

1 occurrences in 1 groups

After prepositionsPrepositional phrases

1 occurrences in 1 groups

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 1 entry
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דּוֹדָה names a father's sister, an aunt, or an uncle's wife, a specific kinship term used in the incest laws of Leviticus alongside the parallel term for uncle.
Word family 6 words
Brown-Driver-Briggs Hebrew Lexicon H1733. dodah [דֹּדָה] noun feminine aunt — only suffix דֹּדָֽתְךָ Lev 18:14 father's…
H1733. dodah
[דֹּדָה] noun feminine aunt — only suffix דֹּדָֽתְךָ Lev 18:14 father's brother's wife; דֹּדָתוֺ Lev 20:20; Exo 6:20 father's sister [compare Num 26:59].

Brown, Driver and Briggs, A Hebrew and English Lexicon of the Old Testament (1906), public domain

Topical studies with this word 1 entry

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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