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Genesis 49

Gen. 49:16 KJV (With Strong’s)

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Dan
Dan (Hebrew #1835)
judge; Dan, one of the sons of Jacob; also the tribe descended from him, and its territory; likewise a place in Palestine colonized by them
KJV usage: Dan.
Pronounce: dawn
Origin: from 1777
r shall judge
diyn (Hebrew #1777)
a primitive roy a straight course, i.e. sail direct
KJV usage: (come) with a straight course.
Pronounce: deen
Origin: or (Gen. 6:3) duwn {doon}
his people
`am (Hebrew #5971)
a people (as a congregated unit); specifically, a tribe (as those of Israel); hence (collectively) troops or attendants; figuratively, a flock
KJV usage: folk, men, nation, people.
Pronounce: am
Origin: from 6004
, as one
'echad (Hebrew #259)
properly, united, i.e. one; or (as an ordinal) first
KJV usage: a, alike, alone, altogether, and, any(-thing), apiece, a certain, (dai-)ly, each (one), + eleven, every, few, first, + highway, a man, once, one, only, other, some, together,
Pronounce: ekh-awd'
Origin: a numeral from 258
of the tribes
shebet (Hebrew #7626)
a scion, i.e. (literally) a stick (for punishing, writing, fighting, ruling, walking, etc.) or (figuratively) a clan
KJV usage: X correction, dart, rod, sceptre, staff, tribe.
Pronounce: shay'-bet
Origin: from an unused root probably meaning to branch off
of Israel
Yisra'el (Hebrew #3478)
from 8280 and 410; he will rule as God; Jisrael, a symbolical name of Jacob; also (typically) of his posterity: --Israel.
Pronounce: yis-raw-ale'
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Gen. 30:6• 6And Rachel said, God has done me justice, and has also heard my voice, and given me a son; therefore she called his name Dan. (Gen. 30:6)
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Num. 10:25• 25And the standard of the camp of the children of Dan set forward, the rear-guard of all the camps according to their hosts, and over his host was Ahiezer the son of Ammishaddai; (Num. 10:25)
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Deut. 33:22• 22And of Dan he said, Dan is a young lion; He shall spring forth from Bashan. (Deut. 33:22)
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Judg. 13:2,24‑25• 2And there was a certain man of Zoreah, of the family of the Danites, and his name was Manoah. And his wife was barren and did not bear.
24And the woman bore a son, and called his name Samson. And the child grew, and Jehovah blessed him.
25And the Spirit of Jehovah began to move him at Mahaneh-Dan, between Zoreah and Eshtaol.
(Judg. 13:2,24‑25)
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Judg. 15:20• 20And he judged Israel in the days of the Philistines twenty years. (Judg. 15:20)
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Judg. 18:1‑2• 1In those days there was no king in Israel, and in those days the tribe of the Danites sought for themselves an inheritance to dwell in; for to that day their lot had not fallen to them for inheritance among the tribes of Israel.
2And the children of Dan sent of their family five men of their whole number, men of valour, from Zoreah and from Eshtaol, to spy out the land, and to examine it; and they said to them, Go, examine the land. And they came to the hill-country of Ephraim, to the house of Micah, and lodged there.
(Judg. 18:1‑2)
 Dan, the treachery of Satanic power, when faith waits for Jehovah’s salvation. (Genesis 48-50 by J.N. Darby)
 Future History of the Nation. Dan.-The power and energy of Satan, and the cry of the remnant in the coming crisis. (Prophetic Blessings of Jacob and Moses: Genesis 49, Deuteronomy 33 by W. Scott)

J. N. Darby Translation

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Dan will judgel his people, As another of the tribes of Israel.

JND Translation Notes

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Paronomasia, Dan yadin; Dan and judge. see ch. 30.6.