דָּנִי
Dânîy · daw-nee'
a Danite (often collectively) or descendants (or inhabitants) of Dan
Lexicon
Derivation: patronymically from H1835 (דָּן);
a Danite (often collectively) or descendants (or inhabitants) of Dan
Definition from Strong's Exhaustive Concordance (1890). Wording is Strong's own, including his etymological notes, which are not separate meanings.
KJV renderings: Danites, of 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
- יYod10
Picture: arm and closed hand
- Concrete
- hand · arm · work
- Extended
- a deed · to make · to work · to throw or worship
Possible cultural reading (auto-composed)
the doorway, the way in › the seed, life continuing › the hand that works
The doorway, the way in of the seed, life continuing of the hand that works.
Interpretive, not lexical. The dictionary sense of דָּנִי 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
5 occurrences · 5 OT · 0 NT · 4 distinct forms
KJV renderings of this word, by how often each one is used.
- of the danites3 · 60%
- of dan1 · 20%
- and of the danites1 · 20%
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.