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Friday, October 31st, 2025
the Week of Proper 25 / Ordinary 30

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Bible Lexicons

Old Testament Hebrew Lexical DictionaryHebrew Lexicon

Strong's #1842 - דָּן יַעַן

Transliteration

Dân Yaʻan

Phonetics

dawn yah'-an

Origin

from (H1835) and (apparently) (H3282)

Parts of Speech

proper locative noun

TWOT

None

Definition

Brown-Driver-Briggs
Strong

Brown-Driver-Briggs' Definition

Dan-jaan = "purposeful judgment"
1. a place in Palestine, site unknown and existence perhaps doubtful

Frequency Lists

Book
Word

Verse Results

ASV (1)

2 Samuel 1

BSB (1)

2 Samuel 1

CSB (1)

2 Samuel 1

ESV (1)

2 Samuel 1

KJV (1)

2 Samuel 1

LEB (1)

2 Samuel 1

LSB (1)

2 Samuel 1

N95 (1)

2 Samuel 1

NAS (1)

2 Samuel 1

NLT (0)

The World English Bible
did not use
this Strong's Number

WEB (1)

2 Samuel 1

Brown-Driver-Briggs Expanded Definition

II. יַעַן in דַּנָֿה יַעַן 2 Samuel 24:6 see above.

יען (√ of following; according to Ges Ew^{GGA 1864, No. 27} Aramaic , avidus, cupidus; hence בַּתיַעֲנָה = daughter of greed, of ostrich as voracious bird; but Wetzst^{Del Job 31:39} = daughter of the desert or steppe, from hard, unproductive soil; compare the Arabic name father of the plains.)

List of Word Forms

יַּ֔עַן יען ya‘an ya·‘an Yaan