STRONGS NUMBER H917


Word Summary
Bedan: an Israelite name
Original Word: בְּדָן
Transliteration: Bedan
Phonetic Spelling: (bed-awn')
Part of Speech: Proper Name Masculine
Short Definition: an Israelite name
Meaning: Bedan -- an Israelite name
Strong's Concordance
Bedan

Probably shortened for Abdown; servile; Bedan, the name of two Israelites -- Bedan.

see HEBREW Abdown

Brown-Driver-Briggs

H917. Bedan

בְּדָןproper name, masculine (= עַבְדָּן‎ ?).

1 a judge of Israel 1 Samuel 12:11; but rd probably בָּרָק‎, so ᵑ6 ᵐ5‎ We, compare Dr (see Judges 4:6f.).

2 a Manassite 1 Chronicles 7:17.

בדק‎ (penetrate, split ? compare Aramaic בְּדַק‎, explore; but these perhaps denominative compare LagGN 1882, 400).