Definition

Dan-Jaan, a place in Palestine

Etymology

from H1835 (דָּן) and (apparently) H3282 (יַעַן); judge of purpose;

Where the KJV renders it

• Dan-jaan

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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