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title: נָדָן — sheath · The Tanakh dictionary
description: נָדָן (5084), a word of Biblical Hebrew, used 1 times: sheath. BDB 1906: sheath. With 1 verse in Hebrew, word for word and JPS 1917.
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# נָדָן

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«נָדָן» in the Tanakh dictionary: **sheath** — how often it is used, MACULA's glosses, its meanings in the printed dictionaries and why they were chosen, and 1 verse in layers.

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**Used:** 1 times · **Key:** 5084 · **BDB:** נָדָן²

### Glosses

sheath (1)

### Meaning (OSHB)

sheath [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1504/5084/#m1)

### Meaning (BDB 1906)

sheath [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1504/5084/#m2)

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**The whole BDB entry:** n.\[m.\] sheath (NH id.; Aramaic נִדְנָא (𝔗 Talm.); Pers. loan-word NöGGA, 1884, 1022);—וַיָּשֶׁב חַרְבּוֹ אֶל־נְדָנָהּ׃ 1 Ch 21:27.

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Why these entries: BDB: headword, part of speech agrees, 1 of its verses cited, 1 words shared with the glosses, lists its Strong's number (2 candidates); OSHB: headword, part of speech agrees, 1 words shared with the BDB entry, 1 with the glosses (2 candidates)

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every English meaning of «נָדָן» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1504/5084/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.

### In the verses

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[1 Chronicles 21:27](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/1CH.21.27/)

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וַיֹּ֤אמֶר יְהוָה֙ לַמַּלְאָ֔ךְ וַיָּ֥שֶׁב חַרְבּ֖וֹ אֶל־נְדָנָֽהּ׃

*Word for word:* and he.spoke Yahweh to the angel and he.returned sword his to sheath its

*JPS 1917:* And the LORD commanded the angel; and he put up his sword back into the sheath thereof.

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