dan · Dan

What it means

dan (דָּן) is a Hebrew word of the Bible that means “Dan”.

A son of Jacob and the tribe that came from him; also a city in the far north of Israel. It means "judge".

How to say it

Approximate pronunciation. Vowels sound as in Spanish (a as in father, e as in bed, i as in machine, o as in note, u as in rule); the syllable in bold is stressed. The voice is your device's.

The place

• Dan

  Today: Tel Dan nature reserve, northern Israel

  A city at the far north of Israel, at the foot of Mount Hermon.

  The tribe of Dan took the city and gave it their name (Judg 18:29). Jeroboam set up a golden calf there (1 Kgs 12:29).

  Judges 18:29Genesis 14:141 Kings 12:29Judges 20:1

Related words

Words of the same family, by Strong’s numbering.

Where it appears

• Genesis×6
• Exodus×4
• Leviticus×1
• Numbers×12
• Deuteronomy×4
• Joshua×8
• Judges×13
• 1 Samuel×1
• 2 Samuel×4
• 1 Kings×4
• 2 Kings×1
• 1 Chronicles×3
• 2 Chronicles×3
• Jeremiah×2
• Ezekiel×3
• Amos×1

• Genesis 14:14

  When Abram heard that his brother had been taken captive, he called out his trained men, born in his house, three hundred eighteen, and pursued as far as Dan.

• Genesis 30:6

  Rachel said, “Elohim has vindicated me, and he has also heard my voice and given me a son.” That is why she called his name Dan.

• Genesis 35:25

  The sons of Bilhah, Rachel’s slave woman: Dan and Naphtali.

• Genesis 46:23

  The sons of Dan: Hushim.

• Genesis 49:16

  Dan will judge his people as one of the tribes of Israel.

• Genesis 49:17

  Dan will be a serpent by the way, a viper by the path, that bites the horse’s heels, so that its rider falls backward.

• Exodus 1:4

  Dan and Naphtali, Gad and Asher.

• Exodus 31:6

  And I, look, have appointed with him Oholiab son of Ahisamach, of the tribe of Dan; and in the heart of all the wise of heart I have put wisdom, so that they make all that I have commanded you:

• Exodus 35:34

  And the ability to teach he has put in his heart, both him and Oholiab son of Ahisamach, of the tribe of Dan.

• Exodus 38:23

  And with him was Oholiab son of Ahisamach, of the tribe of Dan, an engraver, and a designer, and an embroiderer in blue and in purple and in scarlet and in fine linen.

• Leviticus 24:11

  And the son of the Israelite woman blasphemed the Name and cursed; and they brought him to Moses. Now the name of his mother was Shelomith, daughter of Dibri, of the tribe of Dan.

• Numbers 1:12

  from Dan, Ahiezer son of Ammishaddai;

• Numbers 1:38

  Of the sons of Dan, their generations, by their families, by their fathers’ houses, according to the number of names, from twenty years old and upward, everyone who went out to the army:

• Numbers 1:39

  those of them counted from the tribe of Dan were sixty-two thousand seven hundred.

• Numbers 2:25

  The banner of the camp of Dan shall be on the north side by their armies; and the chief of the sons of Dan is Ahiezer son of Ammishaddai,

• Numbers 2:31

  All those counted of the camp of Dan are one hundred fifty-seven thousand six hundred. They shall set out last, by their banners.”

• Numbers 7:66

  On the tenth day, the chief of the sons of Dan, Ahiezer son of Ammishaddai:

• Numbers 10:25

  And the banner of the camp of the sons of Dan, the rear guard of all the camps, set out by their armies, and over its army was Ahiezer son of Ammishaddai.

• Numbers 13:12

  of the tribe of Dan, Ammiel son of Gemalli;

• Numbers 26:42

  These are the sons of Dan by their families: of Shuham, the family of the Shuhamites. These are the families of Dan by their families.

• Numbers 34:22

  of the tribe of the sons of Dan, a chief, Bukki son of Jogli;

• Deuteronomy 27:13

  And these shall stand for the curse on Mount Ebal: Reuben, Gad, and Asher and Zebulun, Dan, and Naphtali.

• Deuteronomy 33:22

  And of Dan he said, “Dan is a lion’s cub; he leaps from Bashan.”

• Deuteronomy 34:1

  And Moses went up from the plains of Moab to Mount Nebo, the top of Pisgah, which is opposite Jericho, and YHWH showed him all the land: Gilead as far as Dan,

• Joshua 19:40

  For the tribe of the sons of Dan according to their families the seventh lot came out.

• Joshua 19:47

  And the territory of the sons of Dan slipped out of their hands; and the sons of Dan went up and fought against Leshem, and took it, and struck it with the edge of the sword, and took possession of it and lived in it; and they called Leshem Dan, after the name of Dan their father.

• Joshua 19:48

  This is the inheritance of the tribe of the sons of Dan according to their families: these cities with their villages.

• Joshua 21:5

  And the rest of the sons of Kohath received by lot ten cities from the families of the tribe of Ephraim, from the tribe of Dan, and from the half tribe of Manasseh.

• Joshua 21:23

  And from the tribe of Dan: Eltekeh with its pasturelands, Gibbethon with its pasturelands,

• Judges 1:34

  The Amorite pressed the sons of Dan into the hill country, for he did not let them come down to the valley.

• Judges 5:17

  Gilead dwelt beyond the Jordan; and Dan, why did he reside as an alien by the ships? Asher sat at the shore of the seas, and by his inlets he dwelt.

• Judges 13:25

  And the spirit of YHWH began to stir him in Mahaneh-dan, between Zorah and Eshtaol.

• Judges 18:2

  So the sons of Dan sent from their family five men from their whole number, men of valor, from Zorah and from Eshtaol, to spy out the land and to explore it. And they said to them, “Go, explore the land.” And they came to the hill country of Ephraim, as far as the house of Micah, and spent the night there.

• Judges 18:16

  Now the six hundred men armed with their weapons of war, who were of the sons of Dan, were standing at the entrance of the gate.

• Judges 18:22

  They had gone some distance from the house of Micah, when the men who were in the houses that were near the house of Micah were summoned and overtook the sons of Dan.

• Judges 18:23

  And they called out to the sons of Dan; and they turned their faces and said to Micah, “What is the matter with you that you have been summoned?”

• Judges 18:25

  And the sons of Dan said to him, “Do not let your voice be heard among us, or men bitter of soul will attack you, and you will lose your life and the lives of your household.”

• Judges 18:26

  And the sons of Dan went on their way; and when Micah saw that they were stronger than he, he turned and went back to his house.

• Judges 18:29

  And they called the name of the city Dan, after the name of Dan their father, who was born to Israel; but Laish was the name of the city formerly.

• Judges 18:30

  And the sons of Dan set up for themselves the carved image; and Jonathan son of Gershom, son of Manasseh, he and his sons were priests to the tribe of the Danites until the day of the exile of the land.

And 30 more times.