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title: בִּלְדַּד — Bildad · The Tanakh dictionary
description: בִּלְדַּד (1085), a word of Biblical Hebrew, used 5 times: Bildad. BDB 1906: n.pr.m. With 2 verses in Hebrew, word for word and JPS 1917.
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# בִּלְדַּד

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«בִּלְדַּד» in the Tanakh dictionary: **Bildad** — how often it is used, MACULA's glosses, its meanings in the printed dictionaries and why they were chosen, and 2 verses in layers.

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**Used:** 5 times · **Key:** 1085 · **BDB:** בִּלְדַּד

### Glosses

Bildad (5)

### Meaning (OSHB)

Bildad [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1489/1085/#m1)

### Meaning (BDB 1906)

n.pr.m. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1489/1085/#m2)

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**The whole BDB entry:** n.pr.m. (𝔊 Βαλδαδ; NöZMG 1888, 479 Bel has loved, cf. אֶלְדָּד; DlPa 298; ZK ii. 177 comp. cuneif. Bir-Dadda, cf. HptHbr 1885, 224) 2nd friend of Job (הַשֻּׁחִי) בּ׳ הַשּׁוּחִי Jb 2:11; 8:1; 18:1; 25:1; 42:9.

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Why these entries: BDB: headword, part of speech agrees, 5 of its verses cited, 0 words shared with the glosses, lists its Strong's number (1 candidates); OSHB: headword, part of speech agrees, 0 words shared with the BDB entry, 1 with the glosses (1 candidates)

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every English meaning of «בִּלְדַּד» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1489/1085/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.

### In the verses

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[Job 8:1](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/JOB.8.1/)

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וַ֭יַּעַן בִּלְדַּ֥ד הַשּׁוּחִ֗י וַיֹאמַֽר׃

*Word for word:* and he.answered Bildad the Shuhite and he.said

*JPS 1917:* Then answered Bildad the Shuhite, and said:

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[Job 18:1](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/JOB.18.1/)

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וַ֭יַּעַן בִּלְדַּ֥ד הַשֻּׁחִ֗י וַיֹּאמַֽר׃

*Word for word:* and he.answered Bildad the Shuhite and he.said

*JPS 1917:* Then answered Bildad the Shuhite, and said:

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