Word Study · Strong's H1886 · Hebrew
דֹּתָן
Dothan
do'-thawn
Strong's 1890 spelling: Dôthân
“Dothan, a place in Palestine”
Strong's Dictionary · 1890 · public domain
Dothan, a place in Palestine
Rendered in the KJV as
Dothan. h
- 3occurrencesin the Old Testament
- 2 of 39Old Testament bookswhere the word stands
- 3inflected formsdistinct spellings
Across 3 occurrences
The word itself
Inflected forms · 3
- בְדֹתָֽן׃1
- בְּדֹתָֽן׃1
- דֹּתָ֑יְנָה1
How it is rendered · 3
- at Dothan1
- Dothan towards1
- in Dothan1
The sense the word carries at each spot — how the translators read it there, not a fixed translation.
How it parses · 2
- preposition + proper noun (a name)2
- proper noun (a name) + directional ending (“toward”)1
Show the grammar codes as tagged
- HR/Npl · 2
- HNpl/Sd · 1
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Where this word lives
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Genesis2 occurrences
- Genesis 37:17דֹּתָ֑יְנָהdotayenahproper noun (a name) + directional ending (“toward”)“They have moved on from here,” the man answered. “I heard them say, ‘Let us go to Dothan.’” So Joseph set out after his brothers and found them at Dothan.here: Dothan towards
- Genesis 37:17בְּדֹתָֽן׃bedotanpreposition + proper noun (a name)“They have moved on from here,” the man answered. “I heard them say, ‘Let us go to Dothan.’” So Joseph set out after his brothers and found them at Dothan.here: at Dothan