Beloved
יְדִדוּתStrong’s H3033yedidut (ye-di-dut)
Appears in 1 verse of the Old Testament
In short
Yedidut is the Hebrew word usually translated “beloved one of”. It appears in 1 verse of the Old Testament.
“I have forsaken mine house, I have left mine heritage; I have given the dearly beloved of my soul into the hand of her enemies.”
Meaning
- One dearly loved, beloved one, object of love
How it's translated
- beloved one of 1
Word-by-word English from the STEPBible tagged text.
Where it's used most
- Jeremiah 1
1 book in all.
Explore in Scripture
Hebrew dictionary
יְדִדוּת yedidut · beloved
one dearly loved, beloved one, object of love
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.