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Strong's H1835 דָּן (dan)

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

Same number, other testament: Strong's G1835 — hexekonta (“threescore”) in the Greek Bible.

Strong's Number H1835
Language Hebrew
Linked Usages 63
Books 16

Strong's H1835 Quick Answer

Strong's H1835 דָּן (Dan) is a Hebrew Strong's word-study entry. Dan (dawn) n/p. 1. judge 2. Dan, one of the sons of Jacob It has 63 linked Bible usages across 16 books. Visible English usage signals include dan. Indexed coverage on this page includes Old Testament.

Meaning
Dan (dawn) n/p. 1. judge 2. Dan, one of the sons of Jacob
Usage
63 linked usages
Books
16 indexed books
Corpus
Old Testament
Usage Words
dan

Meaning and Definition

Dan (dawn) n/p. 1. judge 2. Dan, one of the sons of Jacob 3. also the tribe descended from him, and its territory 4. likewise a place in Israel colonized by them [from H1777] KJV: Dan. Root(s): H1777

Original Word
דָּן
Transliteration
Dan
Derivation
Root: דין דון First root strongs: 1777
Morphology
name

Across Lexicons

How independent scholarly lexicons define Strong's H1835. Each definition is shown with its source so you can compare and cite the original reference works.

How Strong's H1835 Is Translated

The English word each shown verse actually uses to render Dan, 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.

Dan Genesis 14:14 63×

How Strong's H1835 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 63 linked usages.
  • The linked rows are Old Testament Hebrew usage, grouped by book for fast canonical scanning.

Strong's H1835 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 H1835 in the Old Testament

63 indexed usages in Old Testament.

Genesis 14:14 KJV

And when Abram heard that his brother was taken captive, he armed his trained servants, born in his own house, three hundred and eighteen, and pursued them unto Dan.

Genesis 30:6 KJV

And Rachel said, God hath judged me, and hath also heard my voice, and hath given me a son: therefore called she his name Dan.

Genesis 35:25 KJV

And the sons of Bilhah, Rachel's handmaid; Dan, and Naphtali:

Usage Excerpts

First 63 linked usage excerpts for Strong's H1835.

Genesis 14:14 Old Testament, KJV
And when Abram heard that his brother was taken captive, he armed his trained servants, born in his own house, three hundred and eighteen, and pursued them unto Dan.
Genesis 30:6 Old Testament, KJV
And Rachel said, God hath judged me, and hath also heard my voice, and hath given me a son: therefore called she his name Dan.
Genesis 35:25 Old Testament, KJV
And the sons of Bilhah, Rachel's handmaid; Dan, and Naphtali:
Genesis 49:16 Old Testament, KJV
Dan shall judge his people, as one of the tribes of Israel.
Genesis 49:17 Old Testament, KJV
Dan shall be a serpent by the way, an adder in the path, that biteth the horse heels, so that his rider shall fall backward.
Exodus 1:4 Old Testament, KJV
Dan, and Naphtali, Gad, and Asher.
Exodus 31:6 Old Testament, KJV
And I, behold, I have given with him Aholiab, the son of Ahisamach, of the tribe of Dan: and in the hearts of all that are wise hearted I have put wisdom, that they may make all that I have commanded thee;
Exodus 35:34 Old Testament, KJV
And he hath put in his heart that he may teach, both he, and Aholiab, the son of Ahisamach, of the tribe of Dan.
Exodus 38:23 Old Testament, KJV
And with him was Aholiab, son of Ahisamach, of the tribe of Dan, an engraver, and a cunning workman, and an embroiderer in blue, and in purple, and in scarlet, and fine linen.
Leviticus 24:11 Old Testament, KJV
And the Israelitish woman's son blasphemed the name of the Lord, and cursed. And they brought him unto Moses: (and his mother's name was Shelomith, the daughter of Dibri, of the tribe of Dan:)
Numbers 1:12 Old Testament, KJV
Of Dan; Ahiezer the son of Ammishaddai.
Numbers 1:38 Old Testament, KJV
Of the children of Dan, by their generations, after their families, by the house of their fathers, according to the number of the names, from twenty years old and upward, all that were able to go forth to war;
Numbers 1:39 Old Testament, KJV
Those that were numbered of them, even of the tribe of Dan, were threescore and two thousand and seven hundred.
Numbers 2:25 Old Testament, KJV
The standard of the camp of Dan shall be on the north side by their armies: and the captain of the children of Dan shall be Ahiezer the son of Ammishaddai.
Numbers 2:31 Old Testament, KJV
All they that were numbered in the camp of Dan were an hundred thousand and fifty and seven thousand and six hundred. They shall go hindmost with their standards.
Numbers 7:66 Old Testament, KJV
On the tenth day Ahiezer the son of Ammishaddai, prince of the children of Dan, offered:
Numbers 10:25 Old Testament, KJV
And the standard of the camp of the children of Dan set forward, which was the rereward of all the camps throughout their hosts: and over his host was Ahiezer the son of Ammishaddai.
Numbers 13:12 Old Testament, KJV
Of the tribe of Dan, Ammiel the son of Gemalli.
Numbers 26:42 Old Testament, KJV
These are the sons of Dan after their families: of Shuham, the family of the Shuhamites. These are the families of Dan after their families.
Numbers 34:22 Old Testament, KJV
And the prince of the tribe of the children of Dan, Bukki the son of Jogli.
Deuteronomy 27:13 Old Testament, KJV
And these shall stand upon mount Ebal to curse; Reuben, Gad, and Asher, and Zebulun, Dan, and Naphtali.
Deuteronomy 33:22 Old Testament, KJV
And of Dan he said, Dan is a lion's whelp: he shall leap from Bashan.
Deuteronomy 34:1 Old Testament, KJV
And Moses went up from the plains of Moab unto the mountain of Nebo, to the top of Pisgah, that is over against Jericho. And the LORD shewed him all the land of Gilead, unto Dan,
Joshua 19:40 Old Testament, KJV
And the seventh lot came out for the tribe of the children of Dan according to their families.
Joshua 19:47 Old Testament, KJV
And the coast of the children of Dan went out too little for them: therefore the children of Dan went up to fight against Leshem, and took it, and smote it with the edge of the sword, and possessed it, and dwelt therein, and called Leshem, Dan, after the name of Dan their father.
Joshua 19:48 Old Testament, KJV
This is the inheritance of the tribe of the children of Dan according to their families, these cities with their villages.
Joshua 21:5 Old Testament, KJV
And the rest of the children of Kohath had by lot out of the families of the tribe of Ephraim, and out of the tribe of Dan, and out of the half tribe of Manasseh, ten cities.
Joshua 21:23 Old Testament, KJV
And out of the tribe of Dan, Eltekeh with her suburbs, Gibbethon with her suburbs,
Judges 1:34 Old Testament, KJV
And the Amorites forced the children of Dan into the mountain: for they would not suffer them to come down to the valley:
Judges 5:17 Old Testament, KJV
Gilead abode beyond Jordan: and why did Dan remain in ships? Asher continued on the sea shore, and abode in his breaches.
Judges 13:25 Old Testament, KJV
And the Spirit of the LORD began to move him at times in the camp of Dan between Zorah and Eshtaol.
Judges 18:2 Old Testament, KJV
And the children of Dan sent of their family five men from their coasts, men of valour, from Zorah, and from Eshtaol, to spy out the land, and to search it; and they said unto them, Go, search the land: who when they came to mount Ephraim, to the house of Micah, they lodged there.
Judges 18:16 Old Testament, KJV
And the six hundred men appointed with their weapons of war, which were of the children of Dan, stood by the entering of the gate.
Judges 18:22 Old Testament, KJV
And when they were a good way from the house of Micah, the men that were in the houses near to Micah's house were gathered together, and overtook the children of Dan.
Judges 18:23 Old Testament, KJV
And they cried unto the children of Dan. And they turned their faces, and said unto Micah, What aileth thee, that thou comest with such a company?
Judges 18:25 Old Testament, KJV
And the children of Dan said unto him, Let not thy voice be heard among us, lest angry fellows run upon thee, and thou lose thy life, with the lives of thy household.
Judges 18:26 Old Testament, KJV
And the children of Dan went their way: and when Micah saw that they were too strong for him, he turned and went back unto his house.
Judges 18:29 Old Testament, KJV
And they called the name of the city Dan, after the name of Dan their father, who was born unto Israel: howbeit the name of the city was Laish at the first.
Judges 18:30 Old Testament, KJV
And the children of Dan set up the graven image: and Jonathan, the son of Gershom, the son of Manasseh, he and his sons were priests to the tribe of Dan until the day of the captivity of the land.
Judges 20:1 Old Testament, KJV
Then all the children of Israel went out, and the congregation was gathered together as one man, from Dan even to Beersheba, with the land of Gilead, unto the LORD in Mizpeh.
1 Samuel 3:20 Old Testament, KJV
And all Israel from Dan even to Beersheba knew that Samuel was established to be a prophet of the LORD.
2 Samuel 3:10 Old Testament, KJV
To translate the kingdom from the house of Saul, and to set up the throne of David over Israel and over Judah, from Dan even to Beersheba.
2 Samuel 17:11 Old Testament, KJV
Therefore I counsel that all Israel be generally gathered unto thee, from Dan even to Beersheba, as the sand that is by the sea for multitude; and that thou go to battle in thine own person.
2 Samuel 24:2 Old Testament, KJV
For the king said to Joab the captain of the host, which was with him, Go now through all the tribes of Israel, from Dan even to Beersheba, and number ye the people, that I may know the number of the people.
2 Samuel 24:15 Old Testament, KJV
So the LORD sent a pestilence upon Israel from the morning even to the time appointed: and there died of the people from Dan even to Beersheba seventy thousand men.
1 Kings 4:25 Old Testament, KJV
And Judah and Israel dwelt safely, every man under his vine and under his fig tree, from Dan even to Beersheba, all the days of Solomon.
1 Kings 12:29 Old Testament, KJV
And he set the one in Bethel, and the other put he in Dan.
1 Kings 12:30 Old Testament, KJV
And this thing became a sin: for the people went to worship before the one, even unto Dan.
1 Kings 15:20 Old Testament, KJV
So Benhadad hearkened unto king Asa, and sent the captains of the hosts which he had against the cities of Israel, and smote Ijon, and Dan, and Abelbethmaachah, and all Cinneroth, with all the land of Naphtali.
2 Kings 10:29 Old Testament, KJV
Howbeit from the sins of Jeroboam the son of Nebat, who made Israel to sin, Jehu departed not from after them, to wit, the golden calves that were in Bethel, and that were in Dan.
1 Chronicles 2:2 Old Testament, KJV
Dan, Joseph, and Benjamin, Naphtali, Gad, and Asher.
1 Chronicles 21:2 Old Testament, KJV
And David said to Joab and to the rulers of the people, Go, number Israel from Beersheba even to Dan; and bring the number of them to me, that I may know it.
1 Chronicles 27:22 Old Testament, KJV
Of Dan, Azareel the son of Jeroham. These were the princes of the tribes of Israel.
2 Chronicles 2:14 Old Testament, KJV
The son of a woman of the daughters of Dan, and his father was a man of Tyre, skilful to work in gold, and in silver, in brass, in iron, in stone, and in timber, in purple, in blue, and in fine linen, and in crimson; also to grave any manner of graving, and to find out every device which shall be put to him, with thy cunning men, and with the cunning men of my lord David thy father.
2 Chronicles 16:4 Old Testament, KJV
And Benhadad hearkened unto king Asa, and sent the captains of his armies against the cities of Israel; and they smote Ijon, and Dan, and Abelmaim, and all the store cities of Naphtali.
2 Chronicles 30:5 Old Testament, KJV
So they established a decree to make proclamation throughout all Israel, from Beersheba even to Dan, that they should come to keep the passover unto the LORD God of Israel at Jerusalem: for they had not done it of a long time in such sort as it was written.
Jeremiah 4:15 Old Testament, KJV
For a voice declareth from Dan, and publisheth affliction from mount Ephraim.
Jeremiah 8:16 Old Testament, KJV
The snorting of his horses was heard from Dan: the whole land trembled at the sound of the neighing of his strong ones; for they are come, and have devoured the land, and all that is in it; the city, and those that dwell therein.
Ezekiel 48:1 Old Testament, KJV
Now these are the names of the tribes. From the north end to the coast of the way of Hethlon, as one goeth to Hamath, Hazarenan, the border of Damascus northward, to the coast of Hamath; for these are his sides east and west; a portion for Dan.
Ezekiel 48:2 Old Testament, KJV
And by the border of Dan, from the east side unto the west side, a portion for Asher.
Ezekiel 48:32 Old Testament, KJV
And at the east side four thousand and five hundred: and three gates; and one gate of Joseph, one gate of Benjamin, one gate of Dan.
Amos 8:14 Old Testament, KJV
They that swear by the sin of Samaria, and say, Thy god, O Dan, liveth; and, The manner of Beersheba liveth; even they shall fall, and never rise up again.

All Indexed Usage Links

Every indexed verse link for Strong's H1835, grouped by book.

Genesis 6 usages, Old Testament
Exodus 4 usages, Old Testament
Leviticus 1 usage, Old Testament
Numbers 10 usages, Old Testament
Deuteronomy 3 usages, Old Testament
Joshua 5 usages, Old Testament
Judges 12 usages, Old Testament
1 Samuel 1 usage, Old Testament
2 Samuel 4 usages, Old Testament
1 Kings 4 usages, Old Testament
2 Kings 1 usage, Old Testament
1 Chronicles 3 usages, Old Testament
2 Chronicles 3 usages, Old Testament
Jeremiah 2 usages, Old Testament
Ezekiel 3 usages, Old Testament
Amos 1 usage, Old Testament

Strong's H1835 FAQ

What does dan (דָּן) mean?

Dan (Strong's H1835) is a Hebrew word most simply glossed "Daniel". Dan (dawn) n/p. 1. judge 2. Dan, one of the sons of Jacob

How many times is dan (דָּן) used in the Bible?

This page currently indexes 63 linked usages for Strong's H1835 across 16 books.

Where can I study dan (דָּן) in context?

Use the linked verse references on this page to study Strong's H1835 in context. The indexed coverage includes Old Testament.

What English words translate dan (דָּן)?

The visible usage excerpts most often surface English words such as dan. These are scanning signals from the displayed verses, not replacements for the original-language definition.