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Bible Lexicons

Old Testament Hebrew Lexical DictionaryHebrew Lexicon

Strong's #3037 - יַדּוּעַ

Transliteration

Yaddûwaʻ

Phonetics

yad-doo'-ah

Origin

from (H3045)

Parts of Speech

proper masculine noun

TWOT

None

Definition

Brown-Driver-Briggs
Strong

Brown-Driver-Briggs' Definition

Jaddua = "knowing"
1. one of the chiefs of the people who sealed the covenant with Nehemiah
2. son and successor in the high priesthood of Jonathan, Jeshua, or Johanan; the last of the high priests mentioned in the OT, probably living in the time of Alexander the Great

Frequency Lists

Book
Word

Verse Results

ASV (3)

Nehemiah 3

BSB (3)

Nehemiah 3

CSB (3)

Nehemiah 3

ESV (3)

Nehemiah 3

KJV (3)

Nehemiah 3

LEB (3)

Nehemiah 3

LSB (3)

Nehemiah 3

N95 (3)

Nehemiah 3

NAS (3)

Nehemiah 3

NLT (0)

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

WEB (3)

Nehemiah 3

Brown-Driver-Briggs Expanded Definition

יַדוּעַ proper name, masculine 1. a chief of the people, one of those sealed Nehemiah 10:22 ᵐ5^L Ιεδδαυα.

2 a priest, probably the high priest in time of Alexander the Great Nehemiah 12:11,22 ᵐ5 Ιαδου,ᵐ5^L Ιεδδου (whence Lag^{BN 113} reads יִדּוּעַ).

Gesenius' Hebrew and Chaldee Definition

יַדּוּעַ (“known”), [Jaddua], pr.n. m.

(1) Nehemiah 10:22.

(2) Nehemiah 12:11, 22 Nehemiah 12:22.

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List of Word Forms

וְיַדּ֔וּעַ וידוע יַדּֽוּעַ׃ ידוע׃ veyadDua wə·yad·dū·a‘ wəyaddūa‘ yad·dū·a‘ yadDua yaddūa‘