Hebrew word · H1719

דְּדָן

dedan

Dedan

Appears 11 times in 10 verses of the Hebrew Old Testament.

What it means

Dedan = "low country"

a place in south Arabia

Also named: de.da.nim (דְּדָנִי "Dedanite" H1720)

Abridged from Brown, Driver and Briggs, A Hebrew and English Lexicon of the Old Testament (1906), via STEPBible.org (CC BY 4.0).

Where it appears

Genesis · 3
  1. Genesis 10:7 וּדְדָֽן׃ and Dedan

    The sons of Cush: Seba, Havilah, Sabtah, Raamah, and Sabteca. And the sons of Raamah: Sheba and Dedan.

  2. Genesis 25:3 דְּדָ֑ן דְדָ֔ן Dedan

    Jokshan was the father of Sheba and Dedan. And the sons of Dedan were the Asshurites, the Letushites, and the Leummites.

1 Chronicles · 2
  1. 1 Chronicles 1:9 וּדְדָֽן׃ ס and Dedan

    The sons of Cush: Seba, Havilah, Sabta, Raamah, and Sabteca. The sons of Raamah: Sheba and Dedan.

  2. 1 Chronicles 1:32 וּדְדָֽן׃ ס and Dedan

    The sons born to Keturah, Abraham’s concubine: Zimran, Jokshan, Medan, Midian, Ishbak, and Shuah. The sons of Jokshan: Sheba and Dedan.

Jeremiah · 2
  1. Jeremiah 25:23 דְּדָ֤ן Dedan

    Dedan, Tema, Buz, and all who cut the corners of their hair;

  2. Jeremiah 49:8 דְּדָ֑ן Dedan

    Turn and run! Lie low, O dwellers of Dedan, for I will bring disaster on Esau at the time I punish him.

Ezekiel · 4
  1. Ezekiel 25:13 וּדְדָ֖נֶה and Dedan towards

    therefore this is what the Lord GOD says: I will stretch out My hand against Edom and cut off from it both man and beast. I will make it a wasteland, and from Teman to Dedan they will fall by the sword.

    Here: 'And toward Dedan'. The ending -eh marks direction. Dedan was a caravan oasis far to the south-east in north-west Arabia, so the phrase reaches to the far edge of Edom's world.

  2. Ezekiel 27:15 דְדָן֙ Dedan

    The men of Dedan were your clients; many coastlands were your market; they paid you with ivory tusks and ebony.

  3. Ezekiel 27:20 דְּדָן֙ Dedan

    Dedan was your merchant in saddlecloths for riding.

  4. Ezekiel 38:13 וּ֠דְדָן and Dedan

    Sheba and Dedan and the merchants of Tarshish with all its villages will ask, ‘Have you come to capture the plunder? Have you assembled your hordes to carry away loot, to make off with silver and gold, to take cattle and goods, to seize great spoil?’

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