STRONGS NUMBER H2051


Word Summary
Vedan: a place of unknown location
Original Word: רְדָן
Transliteration: Vedan
Phonetic Spelling: (ved-awn')
Part of Speech: Proper Name Location
Short Definition: a place of unknown location
Meaning: Vedan -- a place of unknown location
Strong's Concordance
Dan also

Perhaps for eden; Vedan (or Aden), a place in Arabia -- Dan also.

see HEBREW eden

Brown-Driver-Briggs

H2051. Vedan

וְדָן‎, apparently proper name, of a location, only in וְיָוָן וְדָןEzekiel 27:19 Wedan and Yawan (compare VB and references) but identification wholly dubious; = Waddân near Medina according to GlasSkizze ii. 428: ᵐ5‎ omit; text probably corrupt, compare StaJavan. 11 ff. Da and others; Ew Hi read דְּדָן‎, but דְּדָן‎ is in following see, and anticipation improbable, compare Stal.c.; Co reads (for ויון ודן‎) וְאַרְנָבָן‎, on the basis of Babylonian & Assyrian Aranabanim, Arnabani, proper name, of a location, following –ilbunim (חֶלְבּוֺן‎) in lists of places whence wine was brought (compare חֶלְבּוֺן יֵין27:18, & ᵐ5καὶ οἶνον for ויון‎; also COT 27:18).