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title: דָּנִי — Danite · The Tanakh dictionary
description: דָּנִי (1839), a word of Biblical Hebrew, used 5 times: Danite. BDB 1906: adj.gent. With 2 verses in Hebrew, word for word and JPS 1917.
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# דָּנִי

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«דָּנִי» in the Tanakh dictionary: **Danite** — 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:** 1839 · **BDB:** דָּנִי

### Glosses

the.Danite\[s\] (4); Danite\[s\] (1)

### Meaning (OSHB)

Danite [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1491/1839/#m1)

### Meaning (BDB 1906)

adj.gent. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1491/1839/#m2)

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**The whole BDB entry:** adj.gent. always c. art. as n.pr. coll. הַדָּנִי 1 Ch 12:35; שֵׁבֶט הַדָּנִי Ju 18:1, 30; מִשְׁפַּחַת הַדָּנִי Ju 13:2; 18:11.

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Why these entries: BDB: headword, part of speech agrees, 4 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 «דָּנִי» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1491/1839/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.

### In the verses

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[1 Chronicles 12:36](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/1CH.12.36/)

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וּמִן־הַדָּנִי֙ עֹרְכֵ֣י מִלְחָמָ֔ה עֶשְׂרִֽים־וּשְׁמוֹנָ֥ה אֶ֖לֶף וְשֵׁ֥שׁ מֵאֽוֹת׃ס

*Word for word:* and of the Danite\[s\] \[those.who\].prepare of.battle \[were\].twenty and eight thousand and six hundred(s)

*JPS 1917:* And of the Danites that could set the battle in array, twenty and eight thousand and six hundred.

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[Judges 18:11](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/JDG.18.11/)

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וַיִּסְע֤וּ מִשָּׁם֙ מִמִּשְׁפַּ֣חַת הַדָּנִ֔י מִצָּרְעָ֖ה וּמֵאֶשְׁתָּאֹ֑ל שֵֽׁשׁ־מֵא֣וֹת אִ֔ישׁ חָג֖וּר כְּלֵ֥י מִלְחָמָֽה׃

*Word for word:* and they.set.out from there of the.tribe of the.Danite\[s\] from Zorah and from Eshtaol six hundred(s) man girded weapons of.war

*JPS 1917:* And there set forth from thence of the family of the Danites, out of Zorah and out of Eshtaol, six hundred men girt with weapons of war.

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