Beloved
דּוֹדStrong’s H1730dod
Appears in 53 verses of the Old Testament
In short
Dod is the Hebrew word usually translated “lover my”, “uncle of” and “uncle his”. It appears in 53 verses of the Old Testament.
“And Moses called Mishael and Elzaphan, the sons of Uzziel the uncle of Aaron, and said unto them, Come near, carry your brethren from before the sanctuary out of the camp.”
Meaning
- Beloved, love, uncleloved one, beloved · uncle · love (pl. abstract)
How it's translated
- lover my 14
- uncle of 6
- uncle his 6
- o lover my 5
- love your 4
- to lover my 4
- lover your 4
- love 3
Word-by-word English from the STEPBible tagged text.
Where it's used most
- Song of Solomon 32
- 1 Samuel 4
- Jeremiah 4
- Leviticus 3
- Esther 2
- Ezekiel 2
12 books in all.
Explore in Scripture
- Leviticus 20:20And if a man shall lie with his uncle’s wife, he hath uncovered his uncle’s nakedness: they shall bear their sin; they shall die childless.
- Leviticus 25:49Either his uncle, or his uncle’s son, may redeem him, or any that is nigh of kin unto him of his family may redeem him; or if he be able, he may redeem himself.
- Numbers 36:11For Mahlah, Tirzah, and Hoglah, and Milcah, and Noah, the daughters of Zelophehad, were married unto their father’s brothers’ sons:
- 1 Samuel 10:14And Saul’s uncle said unto him and to his servant, Whither went ye? And he said, To seek the asses: and when we saw that they were no where, we came to Samuel.
- 1 Samuel 10:15And Saul’s uncle said, Tell me, I pray thee, what Samuel said unto you.
- 1 Samuel 10:16And Saul said unto his uncle, He told us plainly that the asses were found. But of the matter of the kingdom, whereof Samuel spake, he told him not.
All 53 verses, by book
Hebrew dictionary
דּוֹד dod · beloved
: beloved 1) beloved, love, uncle 1a) loved one, beloved 1b) uncle 1c) love (pl. abstract)
From STEPBible’s Hebrew lexicon (based on Brown-Driver-Briggs).
Webster's 1828 Dictionary
How the English word “beloved” was understood when the King James Version was still the common Bible of English readers.
BELOV'ED, participle present
tense [be and loved, from love. Belove, as a verb, is not used.]
Noah Webster, An American Dictionary of the English Language (1828). Verse references are checked against the KJV. Read the full entry.
Verses are from the King James Version. Word meanings come from the original Hebrew, not from any one translation.