דֹּתָן
Dôthân · do'-thawn
Dothan, a place in Palestine
Lexicon
Derivation: or (Aramaic dual) דֹּתַיִן; (Genesis 37:17), of uncertain derivation;
Dothan, a place in Palestine
Definition from Strong's Exhaustive Concordance (1890). Wording is Strong's own, including his etymological notes, which are not separate meanings.
KJV renderings: Dothan. h
Letters
- דDalet4
Picture: tent door hanging down
- Concrete
- door · curtain · entrance
- Extended
- a way in or out · moving back and forth · a path · hanging
- תTav400
Picture: a crossed mark
- Concrete
- mark · sign · cross · signature
- Extended
- a covenant · to seal · to sign · the end · monument
- 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 mark, the covenant sign › the seed, life continuing
The doorway, the way in of the mark, the covenant sign of the seed, life continuing.
Interpretive, not lexical. The dictionary sense of דֹּתָן 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
3 occurrences · 3 OT · 0 NT · 3 distinct forms
KJV renderings of this word, by how often each one is used.
- to dothan1 · 33%
- them in dothan1 · 33%
- behold, he is in dothan1 · 33%
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.