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HebrewH1835Noun

דָּן

dan

61Occurrences
H1835Strong's #
NounPart of Speech

Definition

Quick Definition(Strong's Concordance)

Dan, one of the sons of Jacob; also the tribe descended from him, and its territory; likewise a place in Palestine colonized by them

from H1777 (דִּין); judge;

Full Lexicon Entry(Abbott-Smith)
§ Dan = "a judge" 1) the territory of the tribe of ) a city in Dan, the most northern landmark of Palestine

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Grammar & Morphology

Part of Speech

Noun

Morphology Code

N:N--L

Full Description

N:N--L

Occurrences

דָּן appears 61 times in the Old Testament.

Distribution by Book

Judges
11
Numbers
10
Genesis
6
2 Samuel
5
Joshua
5
Exodus
4
1 Chronicles
3
1 Kings
3

Key Passages

1 Chronicles 2:2BSB

Dan, Joseph, Benjamin, Naphtali, Gad, and Asher.

2 Samuel 24:6BSB

Then they went to Gilead and the land of Tahtim-hodshi, and on to Dan-jaan and around to Sidon.

Ezk 48:2BSB

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Judges 18:23BSB

When they called out after them, the Danites turned to face them and said to Micah, “What is the matter with you that you have called out such a company?”

Joshua 21:5BSB

The remaining descendants of Kohath received ten cities by lot from the tribes of Ephraim, Dan, and the half-tribe of Manasseh.

Lexicon data from STEPBible.org (Tyndale House, Cambridge) under CC BY 4.0 license.