Lexicon Vedan: a place of unknown location Original Word: וְדָןPart of Speech: Proper Name Location Transliteration: Vedan Phonetic Spelling: (ved-awn') Short Definition: Vedan NAS Exhaustive Concordance Word Originof uncertain derivation Definitiona place of unknown location NASB TranslationVedan (1).
Brown-Driver-Briggs וְדָן, apparently proper name, of a location, only in וְדָן וְיָוָן Ezekiel 27:19 Wedan and Yawan (compare VB and references) but identification wholly dubious; = Waddân near Medina according to Glas Skizze ii. 428: ᵐ5 omit; text probably corrupt, compare Sta Javan. 11 ff. Da and others; Ew Hi read דְּדָן, but דְּדָן is in following see, and anticipation improbable, compare Sta l.c.; Co reads (for ודן ויון) וְאַרְנָבָן, on the basis of Babylonian & Assyrian Aranabanim, Arnabani, proper name, of a location, following –ilbunim ( חֶלְבּוֺן) in lists of places whence wine was brought (compare יֵין חֶלְבּוֺן Ezekiel 27:18, & ᵐ5 καὶ οἶνον for ויון; also COT Ezekiel 27:18). Strong's Dan also Perhaps for eden; Vedan (or Aden), a place in Arabia -- Dan also. see HEBREW eden |
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