King James Bible
King James Version (KJV)
STRONGS NUMBER H917
Transliteration: Bedan
Phonetic Spelling: (bed-awn')
Part of Speech: Proper Name Masculine
Short Definition: an Israelite name
Meaning: Bedan -- an Israelite name
Word Summary
Bedan: an Israelite name
Original Word: בְּדָןTransliteration: 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
בְּדָן proper 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).