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title: לוּדִים — Ludim. Lydians · The Tanakh dictionary
description: לוּדִים (3866), a word of Biblical Hebrew, used 3 times: Ludim. Lydians. BDB 1906: n.pr.m. gent. Lud, Lydia. With 2 verses in Hebrew, word for word and JPS 1917.
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# לוּדִים

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«לוּדִים» in the Tanakh dictionary: **Ludim. Lydians** — 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:** 3 times · **Key:** 3866 · **BDB:** לוּד

### Glosses

\[the\].Ludites (2); Ludites (1)

### Meaning (OSHB)

Ludim. Lydians [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1500/3866/#m1)

### Meaning (BDB 1906)

n.pr.m. gent. Lud, Lydia [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1500/3866/#m2)

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**The whole BDB entry:** n.pr.m. et gent. Lud, Lydia, Assyrian Luddu:—אַרְפַּכְשַׁד וְלוּד וַאֲרָם Gn 10:22 = 1 Ch 1:17 𝔊 Λουδ. appar. a people in NE. Africa תַּרְשִׁישׁ פּוּל וְלוּד Is 66:19, 𝔊 Λουδ; פָּרַס וְל׳ וּפוּט Ez 27:10; כּוּשׁ וּפוּט וְלוּד 30:5 (+ לוּב q.v.), in both 𝔊 Λ(ο)υδοι; also pl. לוּדִים a ‘son’ of Miṣraim, Gn 10:13 𝔊 Λυδιειμ (‖ לְהָבִים) = 1 Ch 1:11 (לוּדִי֯ים); Je 46:9 (‖ פּוּט, כּוּשׁ) v. לוּב supr.—On this African לוּד v. Di Gn 10:13, opp. StaJavan 5 ff. cf. WMMAs. Eur. 115.

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Why these entries: BDB: another headword, part of speech agrees, 3 of its verses cited, 0 words shared with the glosses, lists its Strong's number (1 candidates); OSHB: another headword, part of speech differs, 0 words shared with the BDB entry, 0 with the glosses (1 candidates)

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every English meaning of «לוּדִים» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1500/3866/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.

### In the verses

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[Genesis 10:13](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/GEN.10.13/)

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וּמִצְרַ֡יִם יָלַ֞ד אֶת־לוּדִ֧ים וְאֶת־עֲנָמִ֛ים וְאֶת־לְהָבִ֖ים וְאֶת־נַפְתֻּחִֽים׃

*Word for word:* and Mizraim he.fathered (et) \[the\].Ludites and (et) \[the\].Anamites and (et) \[the\].Lehabites and (et) \[the\].Naphtuhites

*JPS 1917:* And Mizraim begot Ludim, and Anamim, and Lehabim, and Naphtuhim,

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[1 Chronicles 1:11](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/1CH.1.11/)

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וּמִצְרַ֡יִם יָלַ֞ד אֶת־לוּדִ֧ים וְאֶת־עֲנָמִ֛ים וְאֶת־לְהָבִ֖ים וְאֶת־נַפְתֻּחִֽים׃

*Word for word:* and Mizraim he.fathered (et) \[the\].Ludites and (et) \[the\].Anamites and (et) \[the\].Lehabites and (et) \[the\].Naphtuhites

*JPS 1917:* And Mizraim begot Ludim, and Anamim, and Lehabim, and Naphtuhim,

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