דּוֺד noun masculine[Song 1:2] beloved, love (plural), uncle (Late Hebrew id., Syriac ; Assyrian dâdu DlHA 19) — absolute דּוֺד [Song 5:9] (twice in verse); construct דּוֺד [1Sam 10:14] + 3 t.; דֹּד [Lev 10:4]; [Esth 2:15] suffix דּוֺדִי [Isa 5:1] (but compare below) + 26 t. all Canticles; דֹּדִי [Jer 32:8] + 2 t.; דֹּדְךָ [Jer 32:7] דּוֺדֵךְ [Song 5:9] (twice in verse) + 2 t.; דּוֺדוֺ [Amos 6:10]; [1Sam 10:16], דֹּדוֺ [Lev 20:20] + 4 t.; דּוֺדָהּ [Song 8:5] plural דּוֺדִים [Song 5:1] דֹּדִים [Prov 7:18]; [Ezek 16:8]; [Ezek 23:17] plural suffix דֹּדַי [Song 7:13] דֹּדֶיךָ [Song 1:2]; [Song 1:4] דֹּדַיִךְ [Song 4:10] (twice in verse); דֹּדֵיהֶן [Num 36:11] —
1. most often loved one, beloved (lover, betrothed) [Song 1:13]; [Song 1:14]; [Song 1:16]; [Song 2:3]; [Song 2:8]; [Song 2:9]; [Song 2:10]; [Song 2:16]; [Song 2:17]; [Song 4:16]; [Song 5:2]; [Song 5:4]; [Song 5:5]; [Song 5:6] (twice in verse); [Song 5:8]; [Song 5:9] (twice in verse); [Song 5:10]; [Song 5:16]; [Song 6:1] (twice in verse); [Song 6:2]; [Song 6:3] (twice in verse); [Song 7:10]; [Song 7:11]; [Song 7:12]; [Song 7:14]; [Song 8:5]; [Song 8:14] beloved one, friend, שִׁירַת דּוֺדִי [Isa 5:1] (where Lo Che דודים ׳שׁ love-song, see 3 below)
2. specifically uncle, [Lev 10:4] (father's brother, patruus; Syriac = also avunculus) [Num 36:11]; [1Sam 14:50]; [2Kgs 24:17]; [Lev 20:20]; [Lev 25:49] (twice in verse); [1Sam 10:14]; [1Sam 10:15]; [1Sam 10:16]; [Esth 2:7]; [Esth 2:15]; [Jer 32:7]; [Jer 32:8]; [Jer 32:9]; [Jer 32:12] perhaps also [1Chr 27:32] Jonathan, David's דּוֺד so AV RV; = kinsman (?, so St RVm) [Amos 6:10].
3. plural abstract love [Prov 7:18]; [Song 1:2]; [Song 1:4]; [Song 4:10] (twice in verse); [Song 5:1] ([Song 5:1] and elsewhere concrete beloved ones, so AV RV, ᵐ5 ἀδελφυἰ; so עֵת דדים [Ezek 16:8] מִשְׁכַּב דדים [Ezek 23:17].
The Brown-Driver-Briggs Hebrew and English Lexicon
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