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title: דּוֹד — beloved · The Tanakh dictionary
description: דּוֹד (1730), a word of Biblical Hebrew, used 61 times: beloved. BDB 1906: n.m. With 2 verses in Hebrew, word for word and JPS 1917.
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# דּוֹד

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«דּוֹד» in the Tanakh dictionary: **beloved** — 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:** 61 times · **Key:** 1730 · **BDB:** דּוֹד

### Glosses

lover (24); my.lover (7); love(s) (6)

### Meaning (OSHB)

beloved [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1491/1730/#m1)

### Meaning (BDB 1906)

n.m. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1491/1730/#m2)

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**The whole BDB entry:** n.m. Ct 1:2 beloved, love (pl.), uncle (NH id., Syriac ܕܳܕ, ܕܳܕܳܐ; Assyrian dâdu DlHA 19)—abs. דּוֹד Ct 5:9(×2); cstr. דּוֹד 1 S 10:14 + 3 times; דֹּד Lv 10:4 Est 2:15; sf. דּוֹדִי Is 5:1 (but cf. infr.) + 26 times all Ct; דֹּדִי Je 32:8 + 2 times; דֹּדְךָ Je 32:7; דּוֹדֵךְ Ct 5:9(×2) + 2 times; דּוֹדוֹ Am 6:10 1 S 10:16, דֹּדוֹ Lv 20:20 + 4 times; דּוֹדָהּ Ct 8:5; pl. דּוֹדִים Ct 5:1; דֹּדִים Pr 7:18 Ez 16:8; 23:17; pl. sf. דֹּדַי Ct 7:13; דֹּדֶיךָ Ct 1:2, 4; דֹּדַיִךְ Ct 4:10(×2); דֹּדֵיהֶן Nu 36:11— most often loved one, beloved (lover, betrothed) Ct 1:13, 14, 16; 2:3, 8, 9, 10, 16, 17; 4:16; 5:2, 4, 5, 6(×2), 8, 9(×2), 10, 16; 6:1(×2), 2, 3(×2); 7:10, 11, 12, 14; 8:5, 14; beloved one, friend, שִׁירַת דּוֹדִי Is 5:1 (where Lo Che שׁ׳ דודים love-song, v. 3 infr.) specif. uncle, Lv 10:4 (father’s brother, patruus; Syriac = also avunculus) Nu 36:11 1 S 14:50 2 K 24:17 Lv 20:20; 25:49(×2) 1 S 10:14, 15, 16 Est 2:7, 15 Je 32:7, 8, 9, 12; perhaps also 1 Ch 27:32 Jonathan, David’s דּוֹד, so AV RV; = kinsman (?, so St RVm) Am 6:10. pl. abstr. love Pr 7:18 Ct 1:2, 4; 4:10(×2) 5:1 (5:1 al. concr. beloved ones, so AV RV, 𝔊 ἀδελφοί); so עֵת דדים Ez 16:8; מִשְׁכַּב דדים Ez 23:17.

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Why these entries: BDB: headword, part of speech agrees, 53 of its verses cited, 0 words shared with the glosses, lists its Strong's number (13 candidates); OSHB: headword, part of speech agrees, 1 words shared with the BDB entry, 1 with the glosses (10 candidates)

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every English meaning of «דּוֹד» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1491/1730/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.

### In the verses

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[Song of Songs 5:10](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/SNG.5.10/)

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דּוֹדִ֥י צַח֙ וְאָד֔וֹם דָּג֖וּל מֵרְבָבָֽה׃

*Word for word:* lover my \[is\].dazzling and ruddy \[he.is\].conspicuous more than.ten.thousand

*JPS 1917:* 'My beloved is white and ruddy, pre-eminent above ten thousand.

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[Song of Songs 7:11](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/SNG.7.11/)

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אֲנִ֣י לְדוֹדִ֔י וְעָלַ֖י תְּשׁוּקָתֽוֹ׃ס

*Word for word:* I \[belong\].to lover my and.\[is\] towards me desire his

*JPS 1917:* I am my beloved's, and his desire is toward me.

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