Dedan Place Person

† דְּדָן n.pr.loc. & gent.;—ד׳ Gn 10:7 + 8 times + Ez 27:20 (but v. infr.) c. ה loc. דְּדָ֫נֶה Ez 25:13 cf. Ges§ 90, 2 ad fin.;— 1. under fig. of son of רַעֲמָה and grandson of כּוּשׁ (v. these arts.) Gn 10:7 (brother of שְׁבָא) = 1 Ch 1:9 Ez 27:20; cf. בְּנֵי ד׳ v 15 (but read here perhaps רדן 𝔊 υἱοὶ Ῥοδίων, cf. StaDe Pop. Javan. 11, also 𝔖 ܕܪܢ, Co; v. sub דֹּדָנִים infr.) cf. also Ez 38:13, שְׁבָא וּד׳; . south-Arabian tribe on Persian Gulf, = Sab. בנו דדן according to DHMZMG 1876, 122; Sab. Denkm. 28 (dubit. Mordt); but in NW. of Arabian peninsula, GlaserSkizze ii. 391 ff.; perhaps orig. further south cf. Di Je 25:23. 2. as son of יָקְשָׁן, father of אַשּׁוּרִם etc., Gn 10:7(×2) (here also brother of שְׁבָא) = Gn 25:3; 1 Ch 1:32 יֹשְׁבֵי ד׳; also Je 49:8. This is appar. a northern branch of 1, cf. Di Gn 25:3.—On דדן in MI31, 31 cf. Sm & SoMI p. 29 NöLCB Jan. 8, 1887 Cl GannJAs. Jan. 1887, 107.

† רֹדָן n. pr. loc. vel gent. Rhodes, Rhodians, so read, בְּנֵי ר׳, Ez 27:15 (for MT בְּנֵי דְּדָן, v. ד׳ 1), 𝔊 Sta Co Berthol Toy Krae.

† [דְּדָנִי] adj.gent. only pl. as subst. אֹרְחוֹת דְּדָנִים Is 21:13.