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דָּן

Dân · H1835 · Hebrew · proper noun · 69 occurrences

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Person

This name belongs to 2 places

Meanings

  1. Dan

    The fifth son of Jacob and first son of Bilhah, Rachel's slave, the founder of one of the tribes of Israel, and by extension the tribe and its territory

    Examples

    Genesis 30:6 Then Rachel said, “God has vindicated me, and has indeed heard my voice and has given me a son.” Therefore she named him Dan.

    Genesis 35:25 and the sons of Bilhah, Rachel’s female slave, were Dan and Naphtali;

    Genesis 46:23 And the sons of Dan: Hushim.

  2. Dan

    A town in northern Israel, also known as Laish and Leshem, first inhabited by Sidonians but later conquered by the Danites, who renamed it Dan after the founder of their tribe

    Examples

    Genesis 14:14 When Abram heard that his relative had been taken captive, he led out his trained men, born in his house, numbering 318, and went in pursuit as far as Dan.

    Joshua 19:47 The territory of the sons of Dan proceeded beyond them; for the sons of Dan went up and fought with Leshem and captured it. Then they struck it with the edge of the sword and took possession of it and settled in it; and they named Leshem Dan after the name of their father Dan.

    Judges 18:29 And they named the city Dan, after the name of Dan their father who was born to Israel; however, the name of the city was previously Laish.

How it’s used In 9 roles

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

the word studied the word it goes with

Words describing itAdjectives, demonstratives, participles

1 occurrences in 1 groups

Named alongside itApposition

2 occurrences in 1 groups

What it doesIt is the subject

2 occurrences in 2 groups

What is done to itIt is the object

4 occurrences in 3 groups

Second object ofSecond object

2 occurrences in 1 groups

What it is said to bePredicate

1 occurrences in 1 groups

What is said to be itIt is the predicate

3 occurrences in 3 groups

After prepositionsPrepositional phrases

19 occurrences in 4 groups

In phrases “… of it”It is the genitive

35 occurrences in 8 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 3 entries
Names of People003001007
דָּן is the personal name Dan, given by Rachel to the son born to her through her servant Bilhah, one of the twelve sons of Jacob.
Names of Groups003001006
דָּן also names the tribe descended from this son, one of the twelve tribes of Israel referenced throughout the tribal allotments and censuses.
Names of Locations003001010
דָּן further names the northern city and territory settled by this tribe, the frontier point referenced in the phrase "from Dan to Beersheba" and in the account of Abram's pursuit as far as Dan.
Brown-Driver-Briggs Hebrew Lexicon H1835. Dan דָּן proper name, masculine (judge) — 1 son of Jacob and Bilhah Gen 30:6; Gen…
H1835. Dan
דָּן proper name, masculine (judge) —
1 son of Jacob and Bilhah Gen 30:6; Gen 35:25; Exo 1:4; Jos 19:47; Jdg 18:29; 1Ch 2:2.
2 the tribe of Dan, דָן מַטֵּה Exo 31:6; Exo 35:34; Exo 38:23; Lev 24:11; Num 1:39; Num 13:12; Jos 21:5, Jos 21:23 (all P); דָן בְּנֵי Gen 46:23; Num 1:38; Num 2:25; Num 7:66; Num 10:25; Num 26:42; Num 34:22; Jos 19:40, Jos 19:47 (twice in verse); Jos 19:48 (all P) Jdg 1:34; Jdg 18:2, Jdg 18:16, Jdg 18:22, Jdg 18:23, Jdg 18:25, Jdg 18:26, Jdg 18:30; דָן מַחֲנֵה Num 2:25, Num 2:31 (P) — on Jdg 13:25; Jdg 18:12 see מַחֲנֶה; דָּן מִשְׁמְּחֹת Num 26:42 (P); דָּן alone in poetry Gen 49:16-17, Deu 33:22 (twice in verse); Jdg 5:17, elsewhere Num 1:12 (P) Deu 27:13; 1Ch 27:22; 2Ch 2:13; Eze 48:1-2, Eze 48:32.
3 a city on northern frontier of Israel at one of the sources of the Jordan, originally לַיִשׁ Jdg 18:29 (compare Jdg 18:7); = לֶשֶׁם Jos 19:47; captured by a colony of Danites; named Dan, and made a sacred place with rites of worship that lasted until the exile (Jdg 18:30); = Tell el Kâdî, RobBR iii. 351, 358 BdPa1 265. This place is frequently referred to: Gen 14:14; Deu 34:1; 1Ki 12:29-30, 1Ki 15:20; 2Ki 10:29; 2Ch 16:4; Jer 4:15; Jer 8:16; Amo 8:14; read also וּבְדָן for וְכֵן 2Sa 20:18 ᵐ5 Ew We compare Dr; and see the phrase שֶׁבַע וְעַדבְּֿאֵר מִדָּן Jdg 20:1; 1Sa 3:20; 2Sa 3:10; 2Sa 17:11; 2Sa 24:2, 2Sa 24:15; 1Ki 5:5; given by Chronicles וְעַדדָּֿן שֶׁבַע מִבְּאֵר 1Ch 21:2; 2Ch 30:5. (Eze 27:19 see ודן.)
Note. — יַעַן דָּ֫נָה 2Sa 24:6. As no such place is known, the text is usually regarded as corrupt, and, ᵐ5 being uncertain, is variously changed: (1) יַעַר דָּ֫נָה to Dan in the wood, Thes after ᵑ9 silvestria. (2) (וַיָּסֹבּוּ) וְעִיּוֺן דָּ֫נָה to Dan and Ijon Klo (compare 1Ki 15:20). (3) (סָֽבֲבוּ) וּמִדָּן דָּן We Dr compare ᵐ5.

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

Topical studies with this word 2 entries
Names of People49 occurrencesNames of Locations20 occurrences

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

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