Strong's Lexicon

H4093

H4093 — מַדָּע מַדַּע

Hebrew / Aramaic entry for Bible study and original-language reference.

Hebrewmaddanoun mascOccurrences: 6TWOT: 848g

Definition / Gloss

Strong's Number:	H4093
Word:	מַדָּע מַדַּע
Part of Speech:	noun masc
Etymology:	from H3045
Language:	Hebrew
Occurrences:	6
Transliteration:	madda
Phonetic Spelling/Pronunciation:	` (mad-daw') (or maddai {mad-dah'}) n-m.
Meaning:	1. intelligence or consciousness
KJV Renderings:	knowledge, science, thought.

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Brown-Driver-Briggs Enhanced

BDB3466

מַדָּע noun masculine^{2Chr 1:12} knowledge, thought (late); מַדָּע 2Chr 1:10 + 4 t.; מִדָּֽעֲךָ Eccl 10:20 —

1. knowledge (|| חָכְמָה) of Solomon, 2Chr 1:10; 2Chr 1:11; 2Chr 1:12; Dan 1:4 (|| חָכְמָה and דַּעַת), Dan 1:7 (|| הַשְׂכֵּל).

2. place of knowledge, mind, (in our idiom also) thought Eccl 10:20 .

BDB9572

מַנְדַּע noun [masculine] knowledge, power of knowing ( ᵑ7 ^j id.; Syriac [untranscribed source text 6032], [untranscribed source text 6033]; Biblical Hebrew מַדָּע (late); compare 'Mandâ' = γνῶσις, Nö^{M xx}); — absolute Dan 5:12 emphatic דְּעָא- Dan 2:21 suffix דְּעִי- Dan 4:31; Dan 4:33.

Other Resources

Theological Wordbook of the Old Testament
R. Laird Harris, Gleason L. Archer, and Bruce K. Waltke

Englishman's Hebrew Concordance

מדע (mad-dahz’)

2 Chronicles 1:10

KJV: Give me now wisdom and knowledge, that I may go out and come in before this people: for who can judge this thy people, that is so great?

EHCC: Give me now wisdom and knowledge, 0

Ecclesiastes 10:20

KJV: Curse not the king, no not in thy thought; and curse not the rich in thy bedchamber: for a bird of the air shall carry the voice, and that which hath wings shall tell the matter.thought: or, conscience

EHCC: Curse not the king. no not in thy thought ;

Daniel 1:4

KJV: Children in whom was no blemish, but well favoured, and skilful in all wisdom, and cunning in knowledge, and understanding science, and such as had ability in them to stand in the king’s palace, and whom they might teach the learning and the tongue of the Chaldeans.

EHCC: understanding science,

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