דָּוִד, H1732
David -- Israel's second and greatest king, son of Jesse, ancestor of the Messiah
David (dawid) is the proper name of Israel's paradigmatic king, the shepherd-boy from Bethlehem anointed by Samuel (1 Sam 16:13) who united the tribes, captured Jerusalem, and received the dynastic promise of an everlasting throne (2 Sam 7:12-16). Possibly meaning 'beloved one,' the name occurs 1,075 times across Ruth, Samuel, Kings, Chronicles, Psalms, and the Prophets -- testimony to David's outsized role in biblical theology. The spelling alternates between dawid (earlier books) and dawid (later books, Chronicles), but no semantic distinction exists. Every target language preserves the name unchanged: David in English, Spanish, French, and German alike.
Senses
1. David (proper name) — The proper name of Israel's second king, son of Jesse, anointed at Bethlehem (1 Sam 16:13), conqueror of Jerusalem, recipient of the eternal dynastic covenant (2 Sam 7), and traditional author of the Psalms. The name's 1,075 occurrences are split across variant spellings (dawid / dawid) and prepositional prefixes, but cross-lingual evidence is unanimous -- every language renders it simply as 'David' -- confirming a single undifferentiated proper-noun sense with no polysemy. 1075×
AR["دَاوُد", "دَاوُدَ"]·ben["দায়ূদ", "দায়ূদের"]·DE["David", "Geliebter"]·EN["David"]·FR["David"]·heb["דוד"]·HI["दविद", "दविद-कि", "दविद-के", "दविद-को", "दविद-ने", "दविद-से", "दवोओद", "दाऊद"]·ID["Daud"]·IT["Davide"]·jav["Daud", "Dawud"]·KO["다윗", "다윗에게", "다윗을", "다윗의", "다윗이"]·PT["David"]·RU["Давид", "Давида", "Давиду"]·ES["David"]·SW["Daudi"]·TR["Davud'un", "Davut", "Davut-a", "Davut-u", "Davut-un"]·urd["داؤد", "داؤد-سے", "داؤد-نے", "داؤد-نے۔", "داؤد-کا", "داؤد-کی", "داؤد-کے۔"]
Ruth 4:17, 1 Sam 16:13, 1 Sam 16:20, 1 Sam 16:22, 1 Sam 17:20, 1 Sam 17:23, 1 Sam 17:31, 1 Sam 17:33, 1 Sam 17:37, 1 Sam 17:38, 1 Sam 17:39, 1 Sam 17:41 (+38 more)
Related Senses
G3588 1. definite article (18298×)H0853 1. definite direct object marker (10915×)G2532 1. (8312×)H3068 1. YHWH (the divine name) (6522×)H0834a 1. relative pronoun (who/which/that) (4839×)H3588a 1. causal: because, for (3498×)G1161 1. and (2806×)H3478 1. Israel (proper name and nation) (2507×)G4771 1. you (plural address) (1853×)H1931 1. personal pronoun he/she/it (1431×)G3739 1. relative pronoun who/which/that (1149×)H2088 1. this, this one (demonstrative) (1059×)G1063 1. (1047×)G3778 1. this thing, these things (1003×)H???? 2. (1002×)G2424 1. (924×)G3754 1. that (content clause) (881×)H2009 1. presentative particle: behold, look (881×)H0589 1. I (first person singular pronoun) (874×)H0518a 1. conditional particle: if (827×)
BDB / Lexicon Reference
דָּוִד, דָּוִיד n.pr.m. David, son of יִשַׂי, king of Israel, whose dynasty remained on the throne of Jerusalem till the Babylonian exile (cf. 2 S 7:11–15 etc.) (beloved one? cf. BaNB 189; according to Sayce Mod. Rev. 1884, 158 ff. Rel.Bab. 53, 56 f. orig. Dodo, title of sun-god worshipped in Isr. cf. דודה n. divin. among E. Jordan Israelites MI12)—דָּוִד always Ru Sa Ki (except 1 K 3:14; 11:4,…