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Strong's H1730 דּוֹד (dod)

Dod means “love” — full meaning, definition, and every linked Bible usage across the indexed canon.

Same number, other testament: Strong's G1730 — endeigma (“manifest token”) in the Greek Bible.

Strong's Number H1730
Language Hebrew
Linked Usages 53
Books 12

Strong's H1730 Quick Answer

Strong's H1730 דּוֹד דּוֹד (dowd) is a Hebrew Strong's word-study entry. dowd (dode) (or (shortened) dod {dode}) n-m. 1. (figuratively) to love 2. (by implication) a love-token, lover, friend It has 53 linked Bible usages across 12 books. Visible English usage signals include uncle, love, uncle's, friends, and friend. Indexed coverage on this page includes Old Testament.

Meaning
dowd (dode) (or (shortened) dod {dode}) n-m. 1. (figuratively) to love 2. (by implication) a love-token, lover, friend
Usage
53 linked usages
Books
12 indexed books
Corpus
Old Testament
Usage Words
uncle, love, uncle's, friends, and friend

Meaning and Definition

dowd (dode) (or (shortened) dod {dode}) n-m. 1. (figuratively) to love 2. (by implication) a love-token, lover, friend 3. (specifically) an uncle [from an unused root meaning properly, to boil] KJV: (well-)beloved, father's brother, love, uncle.

Original Word
דּוֹד דּוֹד
Transliteration
dowd
Derivation
Root: דוד
Morphology
noun masc

Across Lexicons

How independent scholarly lexicons define Strong's H1730. Each definition is shown with its source so you can compare and cite the original reference works.

How Strong's H1730 Is Translated

The English word each shown verse actually uses to render dowd, taken from the interlinear word alignment (the same word underlined in the excerpts below). Where a rendering is used more than once, the count is shown.

How Strong's H1730 Usage Compares

Indexed coverage includes Old Testament. Each section below keeps corpus counts and sample passages visible so readers can compare the word across contexts instead of reading one flat concordance list.

  • The largest indexed corpus on this page is Old Testament with 53 linked usages.
  • The linked rows are Old Testament Hebrew usage, grouped by book for fast canonical scanning.

Strong's H1730 by Corpus

Indexed usage grouped by testament and extended corpus so readers can compare this word across the Bible, Septuagint, deuterocanonical books, and 1 Enoch where present.

Strong's H1730 in the Old Testament

53 indexed usages in Old Testament.

Leviticus 10:4 KJV

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.

Leviticus 20:20 KJV

And 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 25:49 KJV

Either 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.

Usage Excerpts

First 53 linked usage excerpts for Strong's H1730.

Leviticus 10:4 Old Testament, KJV
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.
Leviticus 20:20 Old Testament, KJV
And 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 25:49 Old Testament, KJV
Either 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 36:11 Old Testament, KJV
For Mahlah, Tirzah, and Hoglah, and Milcah, and Noah, the daughters of Zelophehad, were married unto their fathers brothers' sons:
1 Samuel 10:14 Old Testament, KJV
And 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 10:15 Old Testament, KJV
And Saul's uncle said, Tell me, I pray thee, what Samuel said unto you.
1 Samuel 10:16 Old Testament, KJV
And 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.
1 Samuel 14:50 Old Testament, KJV
And the name of Saul's wife was Ahinoam, the daughter of Ahimaaz: and the name of the captain of his host was Abner, the son of Ner, Saul's uncle.
2 Kings 24:17 Old Testament, KJV
And the king of Babylon made Mattaniah his father's brother king in his stead, and changed his name to Zedekiah.
1 Chronicles 27:32 Old Testament, KJV
Also Jonathan David's uncle was a counsellor, a wise man, and a scribe: and Jehiel the son of Hachmoni was with the king's sons:
Esther 2:7 Old Testament, KJV
And he brought up Hadassah, that is, Esther, his uncle's daughter: for she had neither father nor mother, and the maid was fair and beautiful; whom Mordecai, when her father and mother were dead, took for his own daughter.
Esther 2:15 Old Testament, KJV
Now when the turn of Esther, the daughter of Abihail the uncle of Mordecai, who had taken her for his daughter, was come to go in unto the king, she required nothing but what Hegai the king's chamberlain, the keeper of the women, appointed. And Esther obtained favour in the sight of all them that looked upon her.
Proverbs 7:18 Old Testament, KJV
Come, let us take our fill of love until the morning: let us solace ourselves with loves.
Song of Solomon 1:2 Old Testament, KJV
Let him kiss me with the kisses of his mouth: for thy love is better than wine.
Song of Solomon 1:4 Old Testament, KJV
Draw me, we will run after thee: the king hath brought me into his chambers: we will be glad and rejoice in thee, we will remember thy love more than wine: the upright love thee.
Song of Solomon 1:13 Old Testament, KJV
A bundle of myrrh is my well-beloved unto me; he shall lie all night betwixt my breasts.
Song of Solomon 1:14 Old Testament, KJV
My beloved is unto me as a cluster of camphire in the vineyards of Engedi.
Song of Solomon 1:16 Old Testament, KJV
Behold, thou art fair, my beloved, yea, pleasant: also our bed is green.
Song of Solomon 2:3 Old Testament, KJV
As the apple tree among the trees of the wood, so is my beloved among the sons. I sat down under his shadow with great delight, and his fruit was sweet to my taste.
Song of Solomon 2:8 Old Testament, KJV
The voice of my beloved! behold, he cometh leaping upon the mountains, skipping upon the hills.
Song of Solomon 2:9 Old Testament, KJV
My beloved is like a roe or a young hart: behold, he standeth behind our wall, he looketh forth at the windows, shewing himself through the lattice.
Song of Solomon 2:10 Old Testament, KJV
My beloved spake, and said unto me, Rise up, my love, my fair one, and come away.
Song of Solomon 2:16 Old Testament, KJV
My beloved is mine, and I am his: he feedeth among the lilies.
Song of Solomon 2:17 Old Testament, KJV
Until the day break, and the shadows flee away, turn, my beloved, and be thou like a roe or a young hart upon the mountains of Bether.
Song of Solomon 4:10 Old Testament, KJV
How fair is thy love, my sister, my spouse! how much better is thy love than wine! and the smell of thine ointments than all spices!
Song of Solomon 4:16 Old Testament, KJV
Awake, O north wind; and come, thou south; blow upon my garden, that the spices thereof may flow out. Let my beloved come into his garden, and eat his pleasant fruits.
Song of Solomon 5:1 Old Testament, KJV
I am come into my garden, my sister, my spouse: I have gathered my myrrh with my spice; I have eaten my honeycomb with my honey; I have drunk my wine with my milk: eat, O friends; drink, yea, drink abundantly, O beloved.
Song of Solomon 5:2 Old Testament, KJV
I sleep, but my heart waketh: it is the voice of my beloved that knocketh, saying, Open to me, my sister, my love, my dove, my undefiled: for my head is filled with dew, and my locks with the drops of the night.
Song of Solomon 5:4 Old Testament, KJV
My beloved put in his hand by the hole of the door, and my bowels were moved for him.
Song of Solomon 5:5 Old Testament, KJV
I rose up to open to my beloved; and my hands dropped with myrrh, and my fingers with sweet smelling myrrh, upon the handles of the lock.
Song of Solomon 5:6 Old Testament, KJV
I opened to my beloved; but my beloved had withdrawn himself, and was gone: my soul failed when he spake: I sought him, but I could not find him; I called him, but he gave me no answer.
Song of Solomon 5:8 Old Testament, KJV
I charge you, O daughters of Jerusalem, if ye find my beloved, that ye tell him, that I am sick of love.
Song of Solomon 5:9 Old Testament, KJV
What is thy beloved more than another beloved, O thou fairest among women? what is thy beloved more than another beloved, that thou dost so charge us?
Song of Solomon 5:10 Old Testament, KJV
My beloved is white and ruddy, the chiefest among ten thousand.
Song of Solomon 5:16 Old Testament, KJV
His mouth is most sweet: yea, he is altogether lovely. This is my beloved, and this is my friend, O daughters of Jerusalem.
Song of Solomon 6:1 Old Testament, KJV
Whither is thy beloved gone, O thou fairest among women? whither is thy beloved turned aside? that we may seek him with thee.
Song of Solomon 6:2 Old Testament, KJV
My beloved is gone down into his garden, to the beds of spices, to feed in the gardens, and to gather lilies.
Song of Solomon 6:3 Old Testament, KJV
I am my beloved's, and my beloved is mine: he feedeth among the lilies.
Song of Solomon 7:9 Old Testament, KJV
And the roof of thy mouth like the best wine for my beloved, that goeth down sweetly, causing the lips of those that are asleep to speak.
Song of Solomon 7:11 Old Testament, KJV
Come, my beloved, let us go forth into the field; let us lodge in the villages.
Song of Solomon 7:12 Old Testament, KJV
Let us get up early to the vineyards; let us see if the vine flourish, whether the tender grape appear, and the pomegranates bud forth: there will I give thee my loves.
Song of Solomon 7:13 Old Testament, KJV
The mandrakes give a smell, and at our gates are all manner of pleasant fruits, new and old, which I have laid up for thee, O my beloved.
Song of Solomon 8:5 Old Testament, KJV
Who is this that cometh up from the wilderness, leaning upon her beloved? I raised thee up under the apple tree: there thy mother brought thee forth: there she brought thee forth that bare thee.
Song of Solomon 8:14 Old Testament, KJV
Make haste, my beloved, and be thou like to a roe or to a young hart upon the mountains of spices.
Isaiah 5:1 Old Testament, KJV
Now will I sing to my wellbeloved a song of my beloved touching his vineyard. My wellbeloved hath a vineyard in a very fruitful hill:
Jeremiah 32:7 Old Testament, KJV
Behold, Hanameel the son of Shallum thine uncle shall come unto thee saying, Buy thee my field that is in Anathoth: for the right of redemption is thine to buy it.
Jeremiah 32:8 Old Testament, KJV
So Hanameel mine uncle's son came to me in the court of the prison according to the word of the LORD, and said unto me, Buy my field, I pray thee, that is in Anathoth, which is in the country of Benjamin: for the right of inheritance is thine, and the redemption is thine; buy it for thyself. Then I knew that this was the word of the LORD.
Jeremiah 32:9 Old Testament, KJV
And I bought the field of Hanameel my uncle's son, that was in Anathoth, and weighed him the money, even seventeen shekels of silver.
Jeremiah 32:12 Old Testament, KJV
And I gave the evidence of the purchase unto Baruch the son of Neriah, the son of Maaseiah, in the sight of Hanameel mine uncle's son, and in the presence of the witnesses that subscribed the book of the purchase, before all the Jews that sat in the court of the prison.
Ezekiel 16:8 Old Testament, KJV
Now when I passed by thee, and looked upon thee, behold, thy time was the time of love; and I spread my skirt over thee, and covered thy nakedness: yea, I sware unto thee, and entered into a covenant with thee, saith the Lord GOD, and thou becamest mine.
Ezekiel 23:17 Old Testament, KJV
And the Babylonians came to her into the bed of love, and they defiled her with their whoredom, and she was polluted with them, and her mind was alienated from them.
Amos 6:10 Old Testament, KJV
And a man's uncle shall take him up, and he that burneth him, to bring out the bones out of the house, and shall say unto him that is by the sides of the house, Is there yet any with thee? and he shall say, No. Then shall he say, Hold thy tongue: for we may not make mention of the name of the LORD.

All Indexed Usage Links

Every indexed verse link for Strong's H1730, grouped by book.

Leviticus 3 usages, Old Testament
Numbers 1 usage, Old Testament
1 Samuel 4 usages, Old Testament
2 Kings 1 usage, Old Testament
1 Chronicles 1 usage, Old Testament
Esther 2 usages, Old Testament
Proverbs 1 usage, Old Testament
Song of Solomon 32 usages, Old Testament
Isaiah 1 usage, Old Testament
Jeremiah 4 usages, Old Testament
Ezekiel 2 usages, Old Testament
Amos 1 usage, Old Testament

Strong's H1730 FAQ

What does dod (דּוֹד) mean?

Dod (Strong's H1730) is a Hebrew word most simply glossed "love". dowd (dode) (or (shortened) dod {dode}) n-m. 1. (figuratively) to love 2. (by implication) a love-token, lover, friend

How many times is dod (דּוֹד) used in the Bible?

This page currently indexes 53 linked usages for Strong's H1730 across 12 books.

Where can I study dod (דּוֹד) in context?

Use the linked verse references on this page to study Strong's H1730 in context. The indexed coverage includes Old Testament.

What English words translate dod (דּוֹד)?

The visible usage excerpts most often surface English words such as uncle, love, uncle's, friends, and friend. These are scanning signals from the displayed verses, not replacements for the original-language definition.