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title: כְּדׇרְלָעֹמֶר — Chedorlaomer · The Tanakh dictionary
description: כְּדׇרְלָעֹמֶר (3540), a word of Biblical Hebrew, used 5 times: Chedorlaomer. BDB 1906: n.pr.m. With 2 verses in Hebrew, word for word and JPS 1917.
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# כְּדׇרְלָעֹמֶר

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«כְּדׇרְלָעֹמֶר» in the Tanakh dictionary: **Chedorlaomer** — 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:** 3540 · **BDB:** כְּדָרְלָעֹמֶר

### Glosses

Kedorlaomer (5)

### Meaning (OSHB)

Chedorlaomer [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1499/3540/#m1)

### Meaning (BDB 1906)

n.pr.m. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1499/3540/#m2)

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**The whole BDB entry:** n.pr.m. king of Elam ( = Babylon. Kudar-Laga\[mar\] (Lagamaru = n.pr. div.), v. PinchesVict. Inst. Jan. 20, 1896 SayPSBA, June 1896, 176 ScheilRev. Bibl. 1896, 600 f., cf. SchrCOT)—Gn 14:1, 4, 5, 9, 17.

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Why these entries: BDB: same consonants, 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, 0 with the glosses (1 candidates)

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every English meaning of «כְּדׇרְלָעֹמֶר» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1499/3540/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.

### In the verses

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[Genesis 14:4](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/GEN.14.4/)

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שְׁתֵּ֤ים עֶשְׂרֵה֙ שָׁנָ֔ה עָבְד֖וּ אֶת־כְּדָרְלָעֹ֑מֶר וּשְׁלֹשׁ־עֶשְׂרֵ֥ה שָׁנָ֖ה מָרָֽדוּ׃

*Word for word:* two.plus ten year\[s\] they.had.served (et) Kedorlaomer and thir- teen year they.rebelled

*JPS 1917:* Twelve years they served Chedorlaomer, and in the thirteenth year they rebelled.

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[Genesis 14:1](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/GEN.14.1/)

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וַיְהִ֗י בִּימֵי֙ אַמְרָפֶ֣ל מֶֽלֶךְ־שִׁנְעָ֔ר אַרְי֖וֹךְ מֶ֣לֶךְ אֶלָּסָ֑ר כְּדָרְלָעֹ֙מֶר֙ מֶ֣לֶךְ עֵילָ֔ם וְתִדְעָ֖ל מֶ֥לֶךְ גּוֹיִֽם׃

*Word for word:* and it.was in the.days of.Amraphel the.king of.Shinar Arioch the.king of.Ellasar Kedorlaomer the.king of.Elam and Tidal the.king of.Goyim

*JPS 1917:* And it came to pass in the days of Amraphel king of Shinar, Arioch king of Ellasar, Chedorlaomer king of Elam, and Tidal king of Goiim,

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