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Hebrew noun (masculine) · H1730

דּוֹד

doddode

beloved

61 uses in the Hebrew text, one for each word STEP Bible has tagged with this key

Concordance spelling: dôwd

Word page · Part of the concordance, one page for every word of the Hebrew and Greek text. Strong's H1730is this word's number in James Strong's 1890 index of the King James Bible.

  • 12 of 39
    Old Testament books
  • 45
    spellings

The definition in full

Strong's key (1890) · H1730

(figuratively) to love; by implication, a love-token, lover, friend; specifically an uncle

The King James renders it: (well-) beloved, father's brother, love, uncle.

James Strong, The Exhaustive Concordance of the Bible (1890), public domain. Strong indexed the King James text, and this site quotes his entry as that index.

Summary

dod is rendered "beloved". It stands 61 times in the Hebrew text, across twelve books.

  • Thirty-nine of the uses stand in Song of Solomon, more than in any other book.
  • Its first use in canonical order opens the ledger below.Leviticus 10:4Moses summoned Mishael and Elzaphan, sons of Aaron’s uncle Uzziel, and said to them, “Come here; carry the bodies of your cousins outside the camp, away from the front of the sanctuary.”
  • The Greek text spells it forty-five different ways.

The first use

Moses summoned Mishael and Elzaphan, sons of Aaron’s uncle Uzziel, and said to them, “Come here; carry the bodies of your cousins outside the camp, away from the front of the sanctuary.”

Leviticus 10:4דֹּ֣ד

The first use, in the order of the Old Testament's books.

Where the word stands

Thirty-nine of the word's sixty-one uses are in Song of Solomon.

The other 27 Old Testament books never use the word.

What the word means

Each meaning, and the words it is translated by

How the Greek text is glossed, word by word

  • lover my14
  • uncle his6
  • uncle of6
  • O lover my5
  • lover your4
  • loves your4
  • to lover my4
  • loves3
  • uncle my3
  • and lover my2
  • more than a lover2
  • beloved my1

and 7 more, 61 uses in all

The words built on the same word-part

Each word below begins with the same letters this one begins with. A shared word-part shows a family. It does not settle what any one of them means, so each word carries its own uses on its own page. Scholars call that shared part the stem.

דּוֹרdorgenerationUses167
דּוֹנַגdonagwaxUses4
דּוֹדָהdodahauntUses3

The words it stands beside

All 61, in canonical order

Every use, in order

Every use, grouped by book, with its verse.

45 spellings and their grammar

STEP Bible tags every word of the Hebrew and Greek text with its spelling and its grammar. Both lists below count the rows printed underneath, written out in English, with the code beside each one as it was tagged.

How it is spelled

  • דוֹדִי֙5
  • דּוֹדִי֙3
  • דּוֹדִ֖י3
  • דֹּ֣ד2
  • דֹּדִ֔ים2
  • דּוֹדִ֔י2
  • דּוֹדִ֥י2
  • דּוֹדִ֗י2
  • דּוֹדֵ֣ךְ2
  • לְדוֹדִ֔י2
  • מִדּ֔וֹד2
  • דֹד֞וֹ1

and 33 more spellings in the ledger below.

The grammar of each form

  • noun · masculine singular · in construct (“…of”) + pronoun suffix · 1st person masculine or feminine singular23HNcmsc/Sp1bs
  • noun · masculine singular · in construct (“…of”) + pronoun suffix · 3rd person masculine singular7HNcmsc/Sp3ms
  • noun · masculine singular · in construct (“…of”)6HNcmsc
  • preposition + noun · masculine singular · in construct (“…of”) + pronoun suffix · 1st person masculine or feminine singular5HR/Ncmsc/Sp1bs
  • noun · masculine plural4HNcmpa
  • noun · masculine singular · in construct (“…of”) + pronoun suffix · 2nd person feminine singular4HNcmsc/Sp2fs
  • conjunction (“and”) + noun · masculine singular · in construct (“…of”) + pronoun suffix · 1st person masculine or feminine singular2HC/Ncmsc/Sp1bs
  • noun · masculine plural · in construct (“…of”) + pronoun suffix · 2nd person feminine singular2HNcmpc/Sp2fs
  • noun · masculine plural · in construct (“…of”) + pronoun suffix · 2nd person masculine singular2HNcmpc/Sp2ms
  • preposition + noun · masculine singular2HR/Ncmsa
  • noun · masculine plural · in construct (“…of”) + pronoun suffix · 1st person masculine or feminine singular1HNcmpc/Sp1bs
  • noun · masculine plural · in construct (“…of”) + pronoun suffix · 3rd person feminine plural1HNcmpc/Sp3fp

Leviticus

four uses
  • Moses summoned Mishael and Elzaphan, sons of Aaron’s uncle Uzziel, and said to them, “Come here; carry the bodies of your cousins outside the camp, away from the front of the sanctuary.”

    Leviticus 10:4

    • דֹּ֣דdodnoun · masculine singular · in construct (“…of”)tagged: uncle of
  • If a man lies with his uncle’s wife, he has uncovered the nakedness of his uncle. They will bear their sin; they shall die childless.

    Leviticus 20:20

    • דֹּד֖וֹdodonoun · masculine singular · in construct (“…of”) + pronoun suffix · 3rd person masculine singulartagged: uncle his
  • either his uncle or cousin or any close relative from his clan may redeem him. Or if he prospers, he may redeem himself.

    Leviticus 25:49

    • דֹד֞וֹdodonoun · masculine singular · in construct (“…of”) + pronoun suffix · 3rd person masculine singulartagged: uncle his
    • דֹּדוֹ֙dodonoun · masculine singular · in construct (“…of”) + pronoun suffix · 3rd person masculine singulartagged: uncle his

Numbers

one use
  • Mahlah, Tirzah, Hoglah, Milcah, and Noah, the daughters of Zelophehad, were married to cousins on their father’s side.

    Numbers 36:11

    • דֹדֵיהֶ֖ןdodeihennoun · masculine plural · in construct (“…of”) + pronoun suffix · 3rd person feminine pluraltagged: uncles their

1 Samuel

four uses
  • Now Saul’s uncle asked him and his servant, “Where did you go?” “To look for the donkeys,” Saul replied. “When we saw they were not to be found, we went to Samuel.”

    1 Samuel 10:14

    • דּ֨וֹדdodnoun · masculine singular · in construct (“…of”)tagged: uncle of
  • “Tell me,” Saul’s uncle asked, “what did Samuel say to you?”

    1 Samuel 10:15

    • דּ֣וֹדdodnoun · masculine singular · in construct (“…of”)tagged: uncle of
  • And Saul replied, “He assured us that the donkeys had been found.” But Saul did not tell his uncle what Samuel had said about the kingship.

    1 Samuel 10:16

    • דּוֹד֔וֹdodonoun · masculine singular · in construct (“…of”) + pronoun suffix · 3rd person masculine singulartagged: uncle his
  • His wife’s name was Ahinoam daughter of Ahimaaz. The name of the commander of his army was Abner, the son of Saul’s uncle Ner.

    1 Samuel 14:50

    • דּ֥וֹדdodnoun · masculine singular · in construct (“…of”)tagged: uncle of

2 Kings

one use
  • Then the king of Babylon made Mattaniah, Jehoiachin’s uncle, king in his place and changed his name to Zedekiah.

    2 Kings 24:17

    • דֹד֖וֹdodonoun · masculine singular · in construct (“…of”) + pronoun suffix · 3rd person masculine singulartagged: uncle his

1 Chronicles

one use
  • David’s uncle Jonathan was a counselor; he was a man of insight and a scribe. Jehiel son of Hachmoni attended to the sons of the king.

    1 Chronicles 27:32

    • דּוֹד־dod-noun · masculine singular · in construct (“…of”)tagged: uncle of

Esther

two uses
  • And Mordecai had brought up Hadassah (that is, Esther), the daughter of his uncle, because she did not have a father or mother. The young woman was lovely in form and appearance, and when her father and mother had died, Mordecai had taken her in as his own daughter.

    Esther 2:7

    • דֹּד֔וֹdodonoun · masculine singular · in construct (“…of”) + pronoun suffix · 3rd person masculine singulartagged: uncle his
  • Now Esther was the daughter of Abihail, the uncle from whom Mordecai had adopted her as his own daughter. And when it was her turn to go to the king, she did not ask for anything except what Hegai, the king’s trusted official in charge of the harem, had advised. And Esther found favor in the eyes of everyone who saw her.

    Esther 2:15

    • דֹּ֣דdodnoun · masculine singular · in construct (“…of”)tagged: uncle of

Proverbs

one use
  • Come, let us take our fill of love till morning. Let us delight in loving caresses!

    Proverbs 7:18

    • דֹ֭דִיםdodimnoun · masculine pluraltagged: loves

Song of Solomon

thirty-nine uses
  • Let him kiss me with the kisses of his mouth! For your love is more delightful than wine.

    Song of Solomon 1:2

    • דֹּדֶ֖יךָdodeikhanoun · masculine plural · in construct (“…of”) + pronoun suffix · 2nd person masculine singulartagged: loves your
  • Take me away with you—let us hurry! May the king bring me to his chambers. We will rejoice and delight in you; we will praise your love more than wine. It is only right that they adore you.

    Song of Solomon 1:4

    • דֹדֶ֙יךָ֙dodeikhanoun · masculine plural · in construct (“…of”) + pronoun suffix · 2nd person masculine singulartagged: loves your
  • My beloved is to me a sachet of myrrh resting between my breasts.

    Song of Solomon 1:13

    • דּוֹדִי֙dodinoun · masculine singular · in construct (“…of”) + pronoun suffix · 1st person masculine or feminine singulartagged: lover my
  • My beloved is to me a cluster of henna blossoms in the vineyards of En-gedi.

    Song of Solomon 1:14

    • דּוֹדִי֙dodinoun · masculine singular · in construct (“…of”) + pronoun suffix · 1st person masculine or feminine singulartagged: lover my
  • How handsome you are, my beloved! Oh, how delightful! The soft grass is our bed.

    Song of Solomon 1:16

    • דוֹדִי֙dodinoun · masculine singular · in construct (“…of”) + pronoun suffix · 1st person masculine or feminine singulartagged: O lover my
  • Like an apple tree among the trees of the forest is my beloved among the young men. I delight to sit in his shade, and his fruit is sweet to my taste.

    Song of Solomon 2:3

    • דּוֹדִ֖יdodinoun · masculine singular · in construct (“…of”) + pronoun suffix · 1st person masculine or feminine singulartagged: lover my
  • Listen! My beloved approaches. Look! Here he comes, leaping across the mountains, bounding over the hills.

    Song of Solomon 2:8

    • דּוֹדִ֔יdodinoun · masculine singular · in construct (“…of”) + pronoun suffix · 1st person masculine or feminine singulartagged: lover my
  • My beloved is like a gazelle or a young stag. Look, he stands behind our wall, gazing through the windows, peering through the lattice.

    Song of Solomon 2:9

    • דוֹדִי֙dodinoun · masculine singular · in construct (“…of”) + pronoun suffix · 1st person masculine or feminine singulartagged: lover my
  • My beloved calls to me, “Arise, my darling. Come away with me, my beautiful one.

    Song of Solomon 2:10

    • דוֹדִ֖יdodinoun · masculine singular · in construct (“…of”) + pronoun suffix · 1st person masculine or feminine singulartagged: lover my
  • My beloved is mine and I am his; he pastures his flock among the lilies.

    Song of Solomon 2:16

    • דּוֹדִ֥יdodinoun · masculine singular · in construct (“…of”) + pronoun suffix · 1st person masculine or feminine singulartagged: lover my
  • Before the day breaks and shadows flee, turn, my beloved, and be like a gazelle or a young stag on the mountains of Bether.

    Song of Solomon 2:17

    • דוֹדִ֜יdodinoun · masculine singular · in construct (“…of”) + pronoun suffix · 1st person masculine or feminine singulartagged: O lover my
  • How delightful is your love, my sister, my bride! Your love is much better than wine, and the fragrance of your perfume than all spices.

    Song of Solomon 4:10

    • דֹדַ֖יִךְdodayikhnoun · masculine plural · in construct (“…of”) + pronoun suffix · 2nd person feminine singulartagged: loves your
    • דֹדַ֙יִךְ֙dodayikhnoun · masculine plural · in construct (“…of”) + pronoun suffix · 2nd person feminine singulartagged: loves your
  • Awake, O north wind, and come, O south wind. Breathe on my garden and spread the fragrance of its spices. Let my beloved come into his garden and taste its choicest fruits.

    Song of Solomon 4:16

    • דוֹדִי֙dodinoun · masculine singular · in construct (“…of”) + pronoun suffix · 1st person masculine or feminine singulartagged: lover my
  • I have come to my garden, my sister, my bride; I have gathered my myrrh with my spice. I have eaten my honeycomb with my honey; I have drunk my wine with my milk. Eat, O friends, and drink; drink freely, O beloved.

    Song of Solomon 5:1

    • דּוֹדִֽים׃ סdodimnoun · masculine pluraltagged: O lovers
  • I sleep, but my heart is awake. A sound! My beloved is knocking: “Open to me, my sister, my darling, my dove, my flawless one. My head is drenched with dew, my hair with the dampness of the night.”

    Song of Solomon 5:2

    • דּוֹדִ֣יdodinoun · masculine singular · in construct (“…of”) + pronoun suffix · 1st person masculine or feminine singulartagged: lover my
  • My beloved put his hand to the latch; my heart pounded for him.

    Song of Solomon 5:4

    • דּוֹדִ֗יdodinoun · masculine singular · in construct (“…of”) + pronoun suffix · 1st person masculine or feminine singulartagged: lover my
  • I rose up to open for my beloved. My hands dripped with myrrh, my fingers with flowing myrrh on the handles of the bolt.

    Song of Solomon 5:5

    • לְדוֹדִ֑יledodipreposition + noun · masculine singular · in construct (“…of”) + pronoun suffix · 1st person masculine or feminine singulartagged: to lover my
  • I opened for my beloved, but he had turned and gone. My heart sank at his departure. I sought him, but did not find him. I called, but he did not answer.

    Song of Solomon 5:6

    • לְדוֹדִ֔יledodipreposition + noun · masculine singular · in construct (“…of”) + pronoun suffix · 1st person masculine or feminine singulartagged: to lover my
    • וְדוֹדִ֖יvedodiconjunction (“and”) + noun · masculine singular · in construct (“…of”) + pronoun suffix · 1st person masculine or feminine singulartagged: and lover my
  • O daughters of Jerusalem, I adjure you, if you find my beloved, tell him I am sick with love.

    Song of Solomon 5:8

    • דּוֹדִ֔יdodinoun · masculine singular · in construct (“…of”) + pronoun suffix · 1st person masculine or feminine singulartagged: lover my
  • How is your beloved better than others, O most beautiful among women? How is your beloved better than another, that you charge us so?

    Song of Solomon 5:9

    • דּוֹדֵ֣ךְdodekhnoun · masculine singular · in construct (“…of”) + pronoun suffix · 2nd person feminine singulartagged: lover your
    • מִדּ֔וֹדmidodpreposition + noun · masculine singulartagged: more than a lover
    • דּוֹדֵ֣ךְdodekhnoun · masculine singular · in construct (“…of”) + pronoun suffix · 2nd person feminine singulartagged: lover your
    • מִדּ֔וֹדmidodpreposition + noun · masculine singulartagged: more than a lover
  • My beloved is dazzling and ruddy, outstanding among ten thousand.

    Song of Solomon 5:10

    • דּוֹדִ֥יdodinoun · masculine singular · in construct (“…of”) + pronoun suffix · 1st person masculine or feminine singulartagged: lover my
  • His mouth is most sweet; he is altogether lovely. This is my beloved, and this is my friend, O daughters of Jerusalem.

    Song of Solomon 5:16

    • דוֹדִי֙dodinoun · masculine singular · in construct (“…of”) + pronoun suffix · 1st person masculine or feminine singulartagged: lover my
  • Where has your beloved gone, O most beautiful among women? Which way has he turned? We will seek him with you.

    Song of Solomon 6:1

    • דּוֹדֵ֔ךְdodekhnoun · masculine singular · in construct (“…of”) + pronoun suffix · 2nd person feminine singulartagged: lover your
    • דוֹדֵ֔ךְdodekhnoun · masculine singular · in construct (“…of”) + pronoun suffix · 2nd person feminine singulartagged: lover your
  • My beloved has gone down to his garden, to the beds of spices, to pasture his flock in the gardens and to gather lilies.

    Song of Solomon 6:2

    • דּוֹדִי֙dodinoun · masculine singular · in construct (“…of”) + pronoun suffix · 1st person masculine or feminine singulartagged: lover my
  • I belong to my beloved and he belongs to me; he pastures his flock among the lilies.

    Song of Solomon 6:3

    • לְדוֹדִי֙ledodipreposition + noun · masculine singular · in construct (“…of”) + pronoun suffix · 1st person masculine or feminine singulartagged: to lover my
    • וְדוֹדִ֣יvedodiconjunction (“and”) + noun · masculine singular · in construct (“…of”) + pronoun suffix · 1st person masculine or feminine singulartagged: and lover my
  • and your mouth like the finest wine. May it flow smoothly to my beloved, gliding gently over lips and teeth.

    Song of Solomon 7:9

    • לְדוֹדִ֖יledodipreposition + noun · masculine singular · in construct (“…of”) + pronoun suffix · 1st person masculine or feminine singulartagged: for lover my
  • I belong to my beloved, and his desire is for me.

    Song of Solomon 7:10

    • לְדוֹדִ֔יledodipreposition + noun · masculine singular · in construct (“…of”) + pronoun suffix · 1st person masculine or feminine singulartagged: to lover my
  • Come, my beloved, let us go to the countryside; let us spend the night among the wildflowers.

    Song of Solomon 7:11

    • דוֹדִי֙dodinoun · masculine singular · in construct (“…of”) + pronoun suffix · 1st person masculine or feminine singulartagged: O lover my
  • Let us go early to the vineyards to see if the vine has budded, if the blossom has opened, if the pomegranates are in bloom—there I will give you my love.

    Song of Solomon 7:12

    • דֹּדַ֖יdodainoun · masculine plural · in construct (“…of”) + pronoun suffix · 1st person masculine or feminine singulartagged: loves my
  • The mandrakes send forth a fragrance, and at our door is every delicacy, new as well as old, that I have treasured up for you, my beloved.

    Song of Solomon 7:13

    • דּוֹדִ֖יdodinoun · masculine singular · in construct (“…of”) + pronoun suffix · 1st person masculine or feminine singulartagged: O lover my
  • Who is this coming up from the wilderness, leaning on her beloved? I roused you under the apple tree; there your mother conceived you; there she travailed and brought you forth.

    Song of Solomon 8:5

    • דּוֹדָ֑הּdodahnoun · masculine singular · in construct (“…of”) + pronoun suffix · 3rd person feminine singulartagged: lover her
  • Come away, my beloved, and be like a gazelle or a young stag on the mountains of spices.

    Song of Solomon 8:14

    • דּוֹדִ֗יdodinoun · masculine singular · in construct (“…of”) + pronoun suffix · 1st person masculine or feminine singulartagged: O lover my

Isaiah

one use
  • I will sing for my beloved a song of his vineyard: My beloved had a vineyard on a very fertile hill.

    Isaiah 5:1

    • דּוֹדִ֖יdodinoun · masculine singular · in construct (“…of”) + pronoun suffix · 1st person masculine or feminine singulartagged: beloved my

Jeremiah

four uses
  • Behold! Hanamel, the son of your uncle Shallum, is coming to you to say, ‘Buy for yourself my field in Anathoth, for you have the right of redemption to buy it.’

    Jeremiah 32:7

    • דֹּֽדְךָ֔dodekhanoun · masculine singular · in construct (“…of”) + pronoun suffix · 2nd person masculine singulartagged: uncle your
  • Then, as the LORD had said, my cousin Hanamel came to me in the courtyard of the guard and urged me, ‘Please buy my field in Anathoth in the land of Benjamin, for you own the right of inheritance and redemption. Buy it for yourself.’” Then I knew that this was the word of the LORD.

    Jeremiah 32:8

    • דֹּדִ֜יdodinoun · masculine singular · in construct (“…of”) + pronoun suffix · 1st person masculine or feminine singulartagged: uncle my
  • So I bought the field in Anathoth from my cousin Hanamel, and I weighed out seventeen shekels of silver.

    Jeremiah 32:9

    • דֹּדִ֖יdodinoun · masculine singular · in construct (“…of”) + pronoun suffix · 1st person masculine or feminine singulartagged: uncle my
  • and I gave this deed to Baruch son of Neriah, the son of Mahseiah, in the sight of my cousin Hanamel and the witnesses who were signing the purchase agreement and all the Jews sitting in the courtyard of the guard.

    Jeremiah 32:12

    • דֹּדִ֔יdodinoun · masculine singular · in construct (“…of”) + pronoun suffix · 1st person masculine or feminine singulartagged: uncle my

Ezekiel

two uses
  • Then I passed by and saw you, and you were indeed old enough for love. So I spread My cloak over you and covered your nakedness. I pledged Myself to you, entered into a covenant with you, and you became Mine, declares the Lord GOD.

    Ezekiel 16:8

    • דֹּדִ֔יםdodimnoun · masculine pluraltagged: loves
  • Then the Babylonians came to her, to the bed of love, and in their lust they defiled her. But after she had been defiled by them, she turned away in disgust.

    Ezekiel 23:17

    • דֹּדִ֔יםdodimnoun · masculine pluraltagged: loves

Amos

one use
  • And when the relative who is to burn the bodies picks them up to remove them from the house, he will call to one inside, “Is anyone else with you?” “None,” that person will answer. “Silence,” the relative will retort, “for the name of the LORD must not be invoked.”

    Amos 6:10

    • דּוֹד֣וֹdodonoun · masculine singular · in construct (“…of”) + pronoun suffix · 3rd person masculine singulartagged: loved one his

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Spellings are counted as the Greek text spells them, with the sentence's own punctuation taken off the word first, so a form that ends a clause is not counted as a second spelling.

The words it stands beside are the nouns, verbs and adjectives immediately before or after it, counted in every verse where the word stands. The article, the conjunctions and the prepositions are left out, because they stand beside every word.

The family is read from the lexicon by the stem the two words share, with the accents off, and a person or a place named on the stem is left out.

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