דָּוִד
Dâvid · daw-veed'
David, the youngest son of Jesse
Lexicon
Derivation: rarely (fully); דָּוִיד; from the same as H1730 (דּוֹד); loving;
David, the youngest son of Jesse
Definition from Strong's Exhaustive Concordance (1890). Wording is Strong's own, including his etymological notes, which are not separate meanings.
KJV renderings: David.
Letters
- דDalet4
Picture: tent door hanging down
- Concrete
- door · curtain · entrance
- Extended
- a way in or out · moving back and forth · a path · hanging
- וVav6
Picture: tent peg or hook
- Concrete
- nail · peg · hook
- Extended
- to fasten · to secure · to establish · and (joining)
- דDalet4
Picture: tent door hanging down
- Concrete
- door · curtain · entrance
- Extended
- a way in or out · moving back and forth · a path · hanging
Possible cultural reading (auto-composed)
the doorway, the way in › to fasten and establish › the doorway, the way in
The doorway, the way in that works to fasten and establish of the doorway, the way in.
Interpretive, not lexical. The dictionary sense of דָּוִד 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
1075 occurrences · 1075 OT · 0 NT · 141 distinct forms
KJV renderings of this word, by how often each one is used.
- of david220 · 23%
- and david220 · 23%
- david191 · 20%
- to david52 · 6%
- unto david47 · 5%
- so david27 · 3%
- david's26 · 3%
- that david25 · 3%
- a psalm of david22 · 2%
- then david21 · 2%
- but david15 · 2%
- with david9 · 1%
- for david9 · 1%
- and when david8 · 1%
- and david's7 · 1%
- when david6 · 1%
- whom david6 · 1%
- became david's6 · 1%
- behold, david4 · 0%
- therefore david4 · 0%
- wherefore david3 · 0%
- to make david3 · 0%
- it to david3 · 0%
- and as david3 · 0%
- which david3 · 0%
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.