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Hebrew adjective (Aramaic) · H2298

חַד

chadkhad

one

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

Word page · Part of the concordance, one page for every word of the Hebrew and Greek text. Strong's H2298is this word's number in James Strong's 1890 index of the King James Bible.

  • 2 of 39
    Old Testament books
  • 10
    spellings

The definition in full

Strong's key (1890) · H2298

as card. one; as article single; as an ordinal, first; adverbially, at once

The King James renders it: a, first, one, together.

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

chad is rendered "one". It stands 14 times in the Hebrew text, across two books.

  • Ten of the uses stand in Daniel, more than in any other book.
  • Its first use in canonical order opens the ledger below.Ezra 4:8Rehum the commander and Shimshai the scribe wrote the letter against Jerusalem to King Artaxerxes as follows:
  • The Greek text spells it ten different ways.

The first use

Rehum the commander and Shimshai the scribe wrote the letter against Jerusalem to King Artaxerxes as follows:

Ezra 4:8חֲדָ֖ה

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

Where the word stands

Ten of the word's fourteen uses are in Daniel.

The other 37 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

  • one13
  • as one1

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.

חַדchadsharpUses4
חַדchadoneUses1
חַדּוּדchaddudpointUses1

Other numbers on this spelling

Strong gave these words the same spelling and different numbers, so the site counts and defines them apart.

All 14, in canonical order

Every use, in order

Every use, grouped by book, with its verse.

10 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

  • חַד֙3
  • חֲדָ֔ה3
  • חַ֨ד־1
  • חַֽד־1
  • חֲדָ֗ה1
  • חֲדָ֖ה1
  • חֲדָ֑ה1
  • חֲדָ֜ה1
  • חֲדָה־1
  • כַחֲדָ֡ה1

The grammar of each form

  • number (cardinal) · masculine or feminine singular13AAcbsa
  • preposition + number (cardinal) · masculine or feminine singular1AR/Acbsa

Ezra

four uses
  • Rehum the commander and Shimshai the scribe wrote the letter against Jerusalem to King Artaxerxes as follows:

    Ezra 4:8

    • חֲדָ֖הchadahnumber (cardinal) · masculine or feminine singulartagged: one
  • In his first year, however, Cyrus king of Babylon issued a decree to rebuild this house of God.

    Ezra 5:13

    • חֲדָ֔הchadahnumber (cardinal) · masculine or feminine singulartagged: one
  • And a scroll was found in the fortress of Ecbatana, in the province of Media, with the following written on it: Memorandum:

    Ezra 6:2

    • חֲדָ֑הchadahnumber (cardinal) · masculine or feminine singulartagged: one
  • In the first year of King Cyrus, he issued a decree concerning the house of God in Jerusalem: Let the house be rebuilt as a place for offering sacrifices, and let its foundations be firmly laid. It is to be sixty cubits high and sixty cubits wide,

    Ezra 6:3

    • חֲדָ֜הchadahnumber (cardinal) · masculine or feminine singulartagged: one

Daniel

ten uses
  • If you do not tell me the dream, there is only one decree for you. You have conspired to speak before me false and fraudulent words, hoping the situation will change. Therefore tell me the dream, and I will know that you can give me its interpretation.”

    Daniel 2:9

    • חֲדָה־chadah-number (cardinal) · masculine or feminine singulartagged: one
  • As you, O king, were watching, a great statue appeared. A great and dazzling statue stood before you, and its form was awesome.

    Daniel 2:31

    • חַד֙chadnumber (cardinal) · masculine or feminine singulartagged: one
  • Then the iron, clay, bronze, silver, and gold were shattered and became like chaff on the threshing floor in summer. The wind carried them away, and not a trace of them could be found. But the stone that had struck the statue became a great mountain and filled the whole earth.

    Daniel 2:35

    • כַחֲדָ֡הkhachadahpreposition + number (cardinal) · masculine or feminine singulartagged: as one
  • At this, Nebuchadnezzar was filled with rage, and the expression on his face changed toward Shadrach, Meshach, and Abednego. He gave orders to heat the furnace seven times hotter than usual,

    Daniel 3:19

    • חַ֨ד־chad-number (cardinal) · masculine or feminine singulartagged: one
  • For a time, Daniel, who was also known as Belteshazzar, was perplexed, and his thoughts alarmed him. So the king said, “Belteshazzar, do not let the dream or its interpretation alarm you.” “My lord,” replied Belteshazzar, “may the dream apply to those who hate you, and its interpretation to your enemies!

    Daniel 4:19

    • חֲדָ֔הchadahnumber (cardinal) · masculine or feminine singulartagged: one
  • and over them three administrators, including Daniel, to whom these satraps were accountable so that the king would not suffer loss.

    Daniel 6:2

    • חַֽד־chad-number (cardinal) · masculine or feminine singulartagged: one
  • A stone was brought and placed over the mouth of the den, and the king sealed it with his own signet ring and with the rings of his nobles, so that nothing concerning Daniel could be changed.

    Daniel 6:17

    • חֲדָ֔הchadahnumber (cardinal) · masculine or feminine singulartagged: one
  • In the first year of the reign of Belshazzar over Babylon, Daniel had a dream, and visions passed through his mind as he lay on his bed. He wrote down the dream, and this is the summary of his account.

    Daniel 7:1

    • חֲדָ֗הchadahnumber (cardinal) · masculine or feminine singulartagged: one
  • Suddenly another beast appeared, which looked like a bear. It was raised up on one of its sides, and it had three ribs in its mouth between its teeth. So it was told, ‘Get up and gorge yourself on flesh!’

    Daniel 7:5

    • חַד֙chadnumber (cardinal) · masculine or feminine singulartagged: one
  • I approached one of those who were standing there, and I asked him the true meaning of all this. So he told me the interpretation of these things:

    Daniel 7:16

    • חַד֙chadnumber (cardinal) · masculine or feminine singulartagged: one

The letters

Gematria 12

Where it leads

How the numbers are counted

Every count on this page comes from STEP Bible's tagged Hebrew and Greek text, the same text the ledger prints. A use is counted once each time the tagging marks a word with this key.

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 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.

Hebrew and Greek text, word tagging and grammar: STEP Bible (www.STEPBible.org), Tyndale House, CC BY 4.0. Their grammar codes are written out in English here and shown as tagged beside each one.

Meaning and senses: STEP Bible TBESH gloss (Tyndale House, CC BY 4.0).

Dictionary key: Strong's Exhaustive Concordance of the Bible (1890, public domain). English verse text: Berean Standard Bible (public domain, 2023).

Revised 2026-09-05. Every cited work, the sources registry →