Strong's #1730: dowd (pronounced dode)
or (shortened) dod {dode}; from an unused root meaning properly, to boil, i.e. (figuratively) to love; by implication, a love- token, lover, friend; specifically an uncle:--(well-)beloved, father's brother, love, uncle.
Brown-Driver-Briggs Hebrew Lexicon:
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dôd
1) beloved, love, uncle
1a) loved one, beloved
1b) uncle
1c) love (plural abstract)
Part of Speech: noun masculine
Relation: from an unused root meaning properly, to boil
Usage:
This word is used 61 times:
Song of Solomon 7:13: "and old, which I have laid up for thee, O my beloved."
Song of Solomon 8:5: "the wilderness, leaning her beloved? I raised thee up under the apple tree: there"
Song of Solomon 8:14: "Make haste, my beloved, and be thou like to a roe or to a young upon"
Isaiah 5:1: "will I sing to my well-beloved a song of my beloved touching his vineyard. hath a vineyard"
Jeremiah 32:7: "Hanameel the son of Shallum thine uncle shall come thee, saying, Buy"
Jeremiah 32:8: "So Hanameel mine uncle's son came to me in of the prison"
Jeremiah 32:9: "the field of Hanameel my uncle's that was in Anathoth,"
Jeremiah 32:12: "of Maaseiah, in the sight of Hanameel mine uncle's son, and in the presence of the witnesses that subscribed the book"
Ezekiel 16:8: "thee, behold, thy time was the time of love; and I spread my skirt over thee, and covered"
Ezekiel 23:17: "And the Babylonians came to her into the bed of love, and they defiled and she was polluted"
Amos 6:10: " And a man's uncle shall take him up, and he that burneth him, to bring out the bones out of and shall say"
