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title: חִדֶּקֶל — Hiddekel · The Tanakh dictionary
description: חִדֶּקֶל (2313), a word of Biblical Hebrew, used 2 times: Hiddekel. BDB 1906: n.pr.fl. Tigris. With 2 verses in Hebrew, word for word and JPS 1917.
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# חִדֶּקֶל

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«חִדֶּקֶל» in the Tanakh dictionary: **Hiddekel** — 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:** 2 times · **Key:** 2313 · **BDB:** חִדֶּ֫קֶל

### Glosses

\[is\].Tigris (1); \[is\].the.Tigris (1)

### Meaning (OSHB)

Hiddekel [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1495/2313/#m1)

### Meaning (BDB 1906)

n.pr.fl. Tigris [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1495/2313/#m2)

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**The whole BDB entry:** n.pr.fl. Tigris (Sum. Idigna, Assyrian Idiḳlat, Diḳlat, O.-Pers. Tigrâ SpiegAPK, Gloss., etc.), the famous Assyrian river; v. especially DlPa 110 f. 170 ff.; ח׳ Gn 2:14; חִדָּ֑קֶל Dn 10:4.

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Why these entries: BDB: headword, part of speech agrees, 2 of its verses cited, 1 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, 0 with the glosses (1 candidates)

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every English meaning of «חִדֶּקֶל» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1495/2313/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.

### In the verses

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[Genesis 2:14](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/GEN.2.14/)

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וְשֵׁ֨ם הַנָּהָ֤ר הַשְּׁלִישִׁי֙ חִדֶּ֔קֶל ה֥וּא הַֽהֹלֵ֖ךְ קִדְמַ֣ת אַשּׁ֑וּר וְהַנָּהָ֥ר הָֽרְבִיעִ֖י ה֥וּא פְרָֽת׃

*Word for word:* and the.name of the.river (the) third \[is\].Tigris it \[is\].the \[one.which\].goes the.east of.Assyria and the river (the) fourth it \[is.the\].Euphrates

*JPS 1917:* And the name of the third river is Tigris; that is it which goeth toward the east of Asshur. And the fourth river is the Euphrates.

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[Daniel 10:4](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/DAN.10.4/)

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וּבְי֛וֹם עֶשְׂרִ֥ים וְאַרְבָּעָ֖ה לַחֹ֣דֶשׁ הָרִאשׁ֑וֹן וַאֲנִ֗י הָיִ֛יתִי עַ֣ל יַ֧ד הַנָּהָ֛ר הַגָּד֖וֹל ה֥וּא חִדָּֽקֶל׃

*Word for word:* and on day twenty and four of the month (the) first and I I.was on the.side of the.river (the) great it \[is\].the.Tigris

*JPS 1917:* And in the four and twentieth day of the first month, as I was by the side of the great river, which is Tigris,

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