רָדַד
radad · subdue, tread down, overlay
Hebrew word · Strong’s number H7286 · appears 4 times in the Bible
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radad (רָדַד) is a Hebrew word of the Bible that means “subdue, tread down, overlay”.
Tread down, subdue. In Judges 19:11, said of the day that is ending; in 1 Kings 6:32, of spreading gold over wood.
How to say it
ra·dad
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.
Its senses in the Bible
- Bring others under one's rule.
- Overlay something with hammered gold.
- For the day to run out, when evening is coming on.
From Brown-Driver-Briggs (1906)
How it is translated
The words this translation uses for it, most frequent first.
- he spread ×1
- subdue ×1
- was far spent ×1
- who subdues ×1
Related words
Words that come from it
Words of the same family, by Strong’s numbering.
Where it appears
- Judges 19:11
They were near Jebus, and the day was far spent, and the young man said to his master, “Come, please, and let us turn aside to this city of the Jebusite and spend the night in it.”
- 1 Kings 6:32
And the two doors were of olive wood; and he carved on them carvings of cherubim and palm trees and open flowers, and overlaid them with gold, and he spread the gold on the cherubim and on the palm trees.
- Psalms 144:2
my loyal love and my fortress, my high refuge and the one who brings me to safety, my shield, and in him I take refuge, who subdues my people under me.
- Isaiah 45:1
Thus says YHWH to his anointed, to Cyrus, whom I have taken hold of by his right hand, to subdue before him nations, and the loins of kings I will loosen, to open before him doors, and gates will not be shut: