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title: אֲבִידָן — Abidan · The Tanakh dictionary
description: אֲבִידָן (27), a word of Biblical Hebrew, used 5 times: Abidan. BDB 1906: n.pr.m. With 2 verses in Hebrew, word for word and JPS 1917.
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# אֲבִידָן

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«אֲבִידָן» in the Tanakh dictionary: **Abidan** — 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:** 27 · **BDB:** אֲבִידָן

### Glosses

Abidan (3); \[was\].Abidan (1); of.Abidan (1)

### Meaning (OSHB)

Abidan [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1488/27/#m1)

### Meaning (BDB 1906)

n.pr.m. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1488/27/#m2)

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**The whole BDB entry:** n.pr.m. (my father is judge) a prince of Benj. Nu 1:11; 2:22; 7:60, 65; 10:24.

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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 (3 candidates); OSHB: headword, part of speech agrees, 0 words shared with the BDB entry, 1 with the glosses (4 candidates)

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every English meaning of «אֲבִידָן» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1488/27/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.

### In the verses

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[Numbers 1:11](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/NUM.1.11/)

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לְבִ֨נְיָמִ֔ן אֲבִידָ֖ן בֶּן־גִּדְעֹנִֽי׃

*Word for word:* for Benjamin Abidan the.son of.Gideoni

*JPS 1917:* Of Benjamin, Abidan the son of Gideoni.

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[Numbers 10:24](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/NUM.10.24/)

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וְעַ֨ל־צְבָ֔א מַטֵּ֖ה בְּנֵ֣י בִנְיָמִ֑ן אֲבִידָ֖ן בֶּן־גִּדְעוֹנִֽי׃ס

*Word for word:* and.\[was\] over the.military.group of.the.tribe of.the.descendants of.Benjamin Abidan the.son of.Gideoni

*JPS 1917:* And over the host of the tribe of the children of Benjamin was Abidan the son of Gideoni.

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