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Lexicon :: Strong's H1730 - dôḏ

Aa
דּוֹד
Transliteration
dôḏ
Pronunciation
dode
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Part of Speech
masculine noun
Root Word (Etymology)
From an unused root meaning properly, to boil
Dictionary Aids

TWOT Reference: 410a

Strong’s Definitions

דּוֹד dôwd, dode; or (shortened) דֹּד dôd; from an unused root meaning properly, to boil, i.e. (figuratively) to love; by implication, a love-token, lover, friend; specifically an uncle:—(well-) beloved, father's brother, love, uncle.

KJV Translation Count — Total: 61x

The KJV translates Strong's H1730 in the following manner: beloved (34x), uncle (16x), love(s) (8x), father's brother (2x), wellbeloved (1x).

KJV Translation Count — Total: 61x
The KJV translates Strong's H1730 in the following manner: beloved (34x), uncle (16x), love(s) (8x), father's brother (2x), wellbeloved (1x).

  1. beloved, love, uncle

    1. loved one, beloved

    2. uncle

    3. love (pl. abstract)

Strong’s Definitions [?](Strong’s Definitions Legend)
דּוֹד dôwd, dode; or (shortened) דֹּד dôd; from an unused root meaning properly, to boil, i.e. (figuratively) to love; by implication, a love-token, lover, friend; specifically an uncle:—(well-) beloved, father's brother, love, uncle.
STRONGS H1730: Abbreviations
† דּוֺד noun masculineSongs 1:2 beloved, love (plural), uncle (Late Hebrew id., Syriac DxD, axDxD; Assyrian dâdu DlHA 19) — absolute דּוֺד Songs 5:9 (twice in verse); construct דּוֺד 1 Samuel 10:14 3 times; דֹּד Leviticus 10:4; Esther 2:15; suffix דּוֺדִי Isaiah 5:1 (but compare below) + 26 times all Songs; דֹּדִי Jeremiah 32:8 2 times; דֹּדְךָ Jeremiah 32:7; דּוֺדֵךְ Songs 5:9 (twice in verse) + 2 times; דּוֺדוֺ Amos 6:10; 1 Samuel 10:16, דֹּדוֺ Leviticus 20:20 4 times; דּוֺדָהּ Songs 8:5; plural דּוֺדִים Songs 5:1; דֹּדִים Proverbs 7:18; Ezekiel 16:8; Ezekiel 23:17; plural suffix דֹּדַי Cant 7:13; דֹּדֶיךָ Songs 1:2,4; דֹּדַיִךְ Songs 4:10 (twice in verse); דֹּדֵיהֶן Numbers 36:11 —
1. most often loved one, beloved (lover, betrothed) Songs 1:13,14,16; Songs 2:3,8,9,10,16,17; Songs 4:16; Songs 5:2,4,5,6 (twice in verse); Songs 5:8,9 (twice in verse); Songs 5:10,16; Songs 6:1 (twice in verse); Songs 6:2,3(twice in verse); Songs 7:10; Songs 7:11; Songs 7:12; Songs 7:14; Songs 8:5; Songs 8:14; beloved one, friend, שִׁירַת דּוֺדִי Isaiah 5:1 (where Lo Che דודים שׁ׳ love-song, see 3 below)
2. specifically uncle, Leviticus 10:4 (father's brother, patruus; Syriac = also avunculus) Numbers 36:11; 1 Samuel 14:50; 2 Kings 24:17; Leviticus 20:20; Leviticus 25:49 (twice in verse); 1 Samuel 10:14,15,16; Esther 2:7,15; Jeremiah 32:7,8,9,12; perhaps also 1 Chronicles 27:32 Jonathan, David's דּוֺד so AV RV; = kinsman (?, so St RVm) Amos 6:10.
3. plural abstract love Proverbs 7:18; Songs 1:2,4; Songs 4:10 (twice in verse); Songs 5:1 (Songs 5:1 and elsewhere concrete beloved ones, so AV RV, Greek Version of the LXX ἀδελφυἰ; so עֵת דדים Ezekiel 16:8; מִשְׁכַּב דדים Ezekiel 23:17.
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BLB Scripture Index of Brown-Driver-Briggs

Leviticus

10:4; 10:4; 20:20; 20:20; 25:49

Numbers

36:11; 36:11

1 Samuel

10:14; 10:14; 10:15; 10:16; 10:16; 14:50

2 Kings

24:17

1 Chronicles

27:32

Esther

2:7; 2:15; 2:15

Proverbs

7:18; 7:18

Song of Songs

1:2; 1:2; 1:2; 1:4; 1:4; 1:13; 1:14; 1:16; 2:3; 2:8; 2:9; 2:10; 2:16; 2:17; 4:10; 4:10; 4:16; 5:1; 5:1; 5:1; 5:2; 5:4; 5:5; 5:6; 5:8; 5:9; 5:9; 5:9; 5:10; 5:16; 6:1; 6:2; 6:3; 7:10; 7:11; 7:12; 7:13; 8:5; 8:5; 8:14

Isaiah

5:1; 5:1

Jeremiah

32:7; 32:7; 32:8; 32:8; 32:9; 32:12

Ezekiel

16:8; 16:8; 23:17; 23:17

Amos

6:10; 6:10

H1730

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Strong's Number H1730 matches the Hebrew דּוֹד (dôḏ),
which occurs 61 times in 53 verses in the WLC Hebrew.

Page 1 / 2 (Lev 10:4–Jer 32:12)

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Unchecked Copy BoxLev 10:4

Unchecked Copy BoxLev 10:4 - And Moses sent for Mishael and Elzaphan, the sons of Uzziel, the brother of Aaron's father, and said to them, Come near and take your brothers away from before the holy place, outside the tent-circle.

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Unchecked Copy BoxLev 20:20 - And if a man has sex relations with the wife of his father's brother, he has put shame on his father's brother: their sin will be on them; till the day of their death they will have no children.

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Unchecked Copy BoxLev 25:49 - Or his father's brother, or the son of his father's brother, or any near relation; or if he gets money, he may make himself free.

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Unchecked Copy BoxNum 36:11 - For Mahlah, Tirzah, and Hoglah, and Milcah, and Noah, the daughters of Zelophehad, took as their husbands the sons of their father's brothers:

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Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 10:14

Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 10:14 - And Saul's father's brother said to him and his servant, Where have you been? And he said, Searching for the asses: and when we saw no sign of them, we came to Samuel.

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Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 10:15

Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 10:15 - Then he said, And what did Samuel say to you?

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Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 10:16

Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 10:16 - And Saul, answering him, said, He gave us word that the asses had come back. But he said nothing to him of Samuel's words about the kingdom.

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Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 14:50

Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 14:50 - The name of Saul's wife was Ahinoam, the daughter of Ahimaaz; the captain of his army was Abner, the son of Ner, brother of Saul's father.

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Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 24:17

Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 24:17 - And the king of Babylon made Mattaniah, his father's brother, king in place of Jehoiachin, changing his name to Zedekiah.

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Unchecked Copy Box1Ch 27:32

Unchecked Copy Box1Ch 27:32 - Now Jonathan, David's father's brother, expert in discussion, and a man of good sense, was a scribe; and Jehiel the son of Hachmoni, had the care of the king's sons;

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Unchecked Copy BoxEst 2:7

Unchecked Copy BoxEst 2:7 - And he had been a father to Hadassah, that is Esther, the daughter of his father's brother: for she had no father or mother, and she was very beautiful; and when her father and mother were dead, Mordecai took her for his daughter.

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Unchecked Copy BoxEst 2:15

Unchecked Copy BoxEst 2:15 - Now when the time came for Esther, the daughter of Abihail, his father's brother, whom Mordecai had taken as his daughter, to go in to the king, she made request for nothing but what Hegai, the king's servant and keeper of the women, had given her. And Esther was looked on kindly by all who saw her.

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Unchecked Copy BoxPro 7:18 - Come, let us take our pleasure in love till the morning, having joy in love's delights.

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Unchecked Copy BoxSng 1:2

Unchecked Copy BoxSng 1:2 - Let him give me the kisses of his mouth: for his love is better than wine.

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Unchecked Copy BoxSng 1:4

Unchecked Copy BoxSng 1:4 - Take me to you, and we will go after you: the king has taken me into his house. We will be glad and full of joy in you, we will give more thought to your love than to wine: rightly are they your lovers.

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Unchecked Copy BoxSng 1:13

Unchecked Copy BoxSng 1:13 - As a bag of myrrh is my well-loved one to me, when he is at rest all night between my breasts.

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Unchecked Copy BoxSng 1:14

Unchecked Copy BoxSng 1:14 - My love is to me as a branch of the cypress-tree in the vine-gardens of En-gedi.

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Unchecked Copy BoxSng 1:16

Unchecked Copy BoxSng 1:16 - See, you are fair, my loved one, and a pleasure; our bed is green.

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Unchecked Copy BoxSng 2:3

Unchecked Copy BoxSng 2:3 - As the apple-tree among the trees of the wood, so is my loved one among the sons. I took my rest under his shade with great delight, and his fruit was sweet to my taste.

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Unchecked Copy BoxSng 2:8

Unchecked Copy BoxSng 2:8 - The voice of my loved one! See, he comes dancing on the mountains, stepping quickly on the hills.

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Unchecked Copy BoxSng 2:9

Unchecked Copy BoxSng 2:9 - My loved one is like a roe; see, he is on the other side of our wall, he is looking in at the windows, letting himself be seen through the spaces.

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Unchecked Copy BoxSng 2:10

Unchecked Copy BoxSng 2:10 - My loved one said to me, Get up, my love, my fair one, and come away.

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Unchecked Copy BoxSng 2:16

Unchecked Copy BoxSng 2:16 - My loved one is mine, and I am his: he takes his food among the flowers.

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Unchecked Copy BoxSng 2:17

Unchecked Copy BoxSng 2:17 - Till the evening comes, and the sky slowly becomes dark, come, my loved one, and be like a roe on the mountains of Bether.

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Unchecked Copy BoxSng 4:10

Unchecked Copy BoxSng 4:10 - How fair is your love, my sister! How much better is your love than wine, and the smell of your oils than any perfume!

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Unchecked Copy BoxSng 4:16

Unchecked Copy BoxSng 4:16 - Be awake, O north wind; and come, O south, blowing on my garden, so that its spices may come out. Let my loved one come into his garden, and take of his good fruits.

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Unchecked Copy BoxSng 5:1 - I have come into my garden, my sister, my bride; to take my myrrh with my spice; my wax with my honey; my wine with my milk. Take meat, O friends; take wine, yes, be overcome with love.

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Unchecked Copy BoxSng 5:2

Unchecked Copy BoxSng 5:2 - I am sleeping, but my heart is awake; it is the sound of my loved one at the door, saying, Be open to me, my sister, my love, my dove, my very beautiful one; my head is wet with dew, and my hair with the drops of the night.

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Unchecked Copy BoxSng 5:4

Unchecked Copy BoxSng 5:4 - My loved one put his hand on the door, and my heart was moved for him.

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Unchecked Copy BoxSng 5:5

Unchecked Copy BoxSng 5:5 - I got up to let my loved one in; and my hands were dropping with myrrh, and my fingers with liquid myrrh, on the lock of the door.

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Unchecked Copy BoxSng 5:6

Unchecked Copy BoxSng 5:6 - I made the door open to my loved one; but my loved one had taken himself away, and was gone, my soul was feeble when his back was turned on me; I went after him, but I did not come near him; I said his name, but he gave me no answer.

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Unchecked Copy BoxSng 5:8

Unchecked Copy BoxSng 5:8 - I say to you, O daughters of Jerusalem, if you see my loved one, what will you say to him? That I am overcome with love.

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Unchecked Copy BoxSng 5:9

Unchecked Copy BoxSng 5:9 - What is your loved one more than another, O fairest among women? What is your loved one more than another, that you say this to us?

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Unchecked Copy BoxSng 5:10

Unchecked Copy BoxSng 5:10 - My loved one is white and red, the chief among ten thousand.

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Unchecked Copy BoxSng 5:16

Unchecked Copy BoxSng 5:16 - His mouth is most sweet; yes, he is all beautiful. This is my loved one, and this is my friend, O daughters of Jerusalem.

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Unchecked Copy BoxSng 6:1

Unchecked Copy BoxSng 6:1 - Where is your loved one gone, O most fair among women? Where is your loved one turned away, that we may go looking for him with you?

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Unchecked Copy BoxSng 6:2

Unchecked Copy BoxSng 6:2 - My loved one is gone down into his garden, to the beds of spices, to take food in the gardens, and to get lilies.

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Unchecked Copy BoxSng 6:3

Unchecked Copy BoxSng 6:3 - I am for my loved one, and my loved one is for me; he takes food among the lilies.

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Unchecked Copy BoxSng 7:9

Unchecked Copy BoxSng 7:9 - And the roof of your mouth like good wine flowing down smoothly for my loved one, moving gently over my lips and my teeth.

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Unchecked Copy BoxSng 7:10

Unchecked Copy BoxSng 7:10 - I am for my loved one, and his desire is for me.

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Unchecked Copy BoxSng 7:11

Unchecked Copy BoxSng 7:11 - Come, my loved one, let us go out into the field; let us take rest among the cypress-trees.

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Unchecked Copy BoxSng 7:12

Unchecked Copy BoxSng 7:12 - Let us go out early to the vine-gardens; let us see if the vine is in bud, if it has put out its young fruit, and the pomegranate is in flower. There I will give you my love.

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Unchecked Copy BoxSng 7:13

Unchecked Copy BoxSng 7:13 - The mandrakes give out a sweet smell, and at our doors are all sorts of good fruits, new and old, which I have kept for my loved one.

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Unchecked Copy BoxSng 8:5

Unchecked Copy BoxSng 8:5 - Who is this, who comes up from the waste places, resting on her loved one? It was I who made you awake under the apple-tree, where your mother gave you birth; there she was in pain at your birth.

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Unchecked Copy BoxSng 8:14

Unchecked Copy BoxSng 8:14 - Come quickly, my loved one, and be like a roe on the mountains of spice.

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Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 5:1

Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 5:1 - Let me make a song about my loved one, a song of love for his vine-garden. My loved one had a vine-garden on a fertile hill:

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Unchecked Copy BoxJer 32:7

Unchecked Copy BoxJer 32:7 - See, Hanamel, the son of Shallum, your father's brother, will come to you and say, Give the price and get for yourself my property in Anathoth: for you have the right of the nearest relation.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJer 32:8

Unchecked Copy BoxJer 32:8 - So Hanamel, the son of my father's brother, came to me, as the Lord had said, to the place of the armed watchmen, and said to me, Give the price and get my property which is in Anathoth in the land of Benjamin: for you have the nearest relation's right to the heritage; so get it for yourself. Then it was clear to me that this was the word of the Lord.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJer 32:9

Unchecked Copy BoxJer 32:9 - So I got for a price the property in Anathoth from Hanamel, the son of my father's brother, and gave him the money, seventeen shekels of silver;

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Unchecked Copy BoxJer 32:12

Unchecked Copy BoxJer 32:12 - And I gave the paper to Baruch, the son of Neriah, the son of Mahseiah, before the eyes of Hanamel, the son of my father's brother, and of the witnesses who had put their names to the paper, and before all the Jews who were seated in the place of the armed watchmen.

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