דָּן
Dân · dawn
Dan, one of the sons of Jacob; also the tribe descended from him, and its territory; likewise a place in Palestine colonized by them
Lexicon
Derivation: from H1777 (דִּין); judge;
Dan, one of the sons of Jacob; also the tribe descended from him, and its territory; likewise a place in Palestine colonized by them
- Dan, one of the sons of Jacob
- also, the tribe descended from him, and its territory
- likewise a place in Palestine colonized by them
Definition from Strong's Exhaustive Concordance (1890). Wording is Strong's own, including his etymological notes, which are not separate meanings.
KJV renderings: Daniel
Letters
- 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 seed, life continuing
The doorway, the way in of the seed, life continuing.
Interpretive, not lexical. The dictionary sense of דָּן 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
70 occurrences · 70 OT · 0 NT · 28 distinct forms
KJV renderings of this word, by how often each one is used.
- of dan38 · 54%
- dan11 · 15%
- from dan8 · 11%
- and dan2 · 3%
- even to dan2 · 3%
- them unto dan1 · 1%
- and of dan1 · 1%
- unto dan1 · 1%
- and why did dan1 · 1%
- unto thee, from dan1 · 1%
- he in dan1 · 1%
- even unto dan1 · 1%
- and that were in dan1 · 1%
- portion for dan1 · 1%
- o dan1 · 1%
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.