Strong’s H1085 · Hebrew

בִּלְדַּד
Bildad
bil-dad'

Definition

Bildad, one of Job's friends

Etymology

of uncertain derivation;

Where the KJV renders it

  • Bildad

Every distinct English word the King James Version uses to translate this Hebrew term. The variety shows what readers in English receive across many different surface words — the same underlying word, scattered across the English Bible under different names.

What the first audience heard

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