דְּדָן
Dᵉdân · ded-awn'
Dedan, the name of two Cushites and of their territory
Lexicon
Derivation: or (prolonged) דְּדָנֶה; (Ezekiel 25:13), of uncertain derivation;
Dedan, the name of two Cushites and of their territory
Definition from Strong's Exhaustive Concordance (1890). Wording is Strong's own, including his etymological notes, which are not separate meanings.
KJV renderings: Dedan.
Letters
- דDalet4
Picture: tent door hanging down
- Concrete
- door · curtain · entrance
- Extended
- a way in or out · moving back and forth · a path · hanging
- דDalet4
Picture: tent door hanging down
- Concrete
- door · curtain · entrance
- Extended
- a way in or out · moving back and forth · a path · hanging
- נNun50
Picture: a sprouting seed, or a fish in water
- Concrete
- seed · sprout · fish · offspring
- Extended
- life · continuation · heir · to perpetuate
Possible cultural reading (auto-composed)
the doorway, the way in › the doorway, the way in › the seed, life continuing
The doorway, the way in of the doorway, the way in of the seed, life continuing.
Interpretive, not lexical. The dictionary sense of דְּדָן above is the attested meaning; this pictographic reading is a tradition about how the sign-shapes may have been heard. Both can be held at once, they are answering different questions.
Usage
11 occurrences · 11 OT · 0 NT · 9 distinct forms
KJV renderings of this word, by how often each one is used.
- and dedan5 · 45%
- of dedan3 · 27%
- dedan2 · 18%
- and they of dedan1 · 9%
Where it is used, by book.
Inflected forms found in the text.
Counts are computed from the tagged Hebrew and Greek text aligned to the King James Version, not from an estimate.