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title: לַעְדָּן — Laadan · The Tanakh dictionary
description: לַעְדָּן (3936), a word of Biblical Hebrew, used 7 times: Laadan. BDB 1906: n.pr.m. With 2 verses in Hebrew, word for word and JPS 1917.
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# לַעְדָּן

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«לַעְדָּן» in the Tanakh dictionary: **Laadan** — 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:** 7 times · **Key:** 3936 · **BDB:** לַעְדָּן

### Glosses

Ladan (5); of.Ladan (2)

### Meaning (OSHB)

Laadan [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1500/3936/#m1)

### Meaning (BDB 1906)

n.pr.m. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1500/3936/#m2)

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**The whole BDB entry:** n.pr.m. an Ephraimite 1 Ch 7:26 𝔊 Λαδ(δ)αν. a Gershonite 1 Ch 23:7, 8, 9; 26:21(×3) 𝔊 Εδαν, A Λ(ε)αδαν, Χαδαν, 𝔊L Λααδαν.

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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 (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 «לַעְדָּן» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1500/3936/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.

### In the verses

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[1 Chronicles 23:7](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/1CH.23.7/)

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לַגֵּרְשֻׁנִּ֖י לַעְדָּ֥ן וְשִׁמְעִֽי׃ס

*Word for word:* \[belonged\].to the Gershonite\[s\] Ladan and Shimei

*JPS 1917:* Of the Gershonites: Ladan, and Shimei.

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[1 Chronicles 7:26](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/1CH.7.26/)

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לַעְדָּ֥ן בְּנ֛וֹ עַמִּיה֥וּד בְּנ֖וֹ אֱלִישָׁמָ֥ע בְּנֽוֹ׃

*Word for word:* Ladan son \[was\].his Ammihud son \[was\].his Elishama son \[was\].his

*JPS 1917:* Ladan his son, Ammihud his son, Elishama his son;

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