Aunt
דֹּדָהStrong’s H1733dodah (do-dah)
Appears in 3 verses of the Old Testament
In short
Dodah is the Hebrew word usually translated “father s sister his”, “aunt your” and “aunt his”. It appears in 3 verses of the Old Testament.
“And Amram took him Jochebed his father’s sister to wife; and she bare him Aaron and Moses: and the years of the life of Amram were an hundred and thirty and seven years.”
Meaning
- Aunt
How it's translated
- father s sister his 1
- aunt your 1
- aunt his 1
Word-by-word English from the STEPBible tagged text.
Where it's used most
- Leviticus 2
- Exodus 1
2 books in all.
Explore in Scripture
Hebrew dictionary
דֹּדָה dodah · aunt
aunt
From STEPBible’s Hebrew lexicon (based on Brown-Driver-Briggs).
Webster's 1828 Dictionary
How the English word “aunt” was understood when the King James Version was still the common Bible of English readers.
'AUNT, noun
[Latin amita, contracted.]
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.