Bible Names

Dedan: meaning of the name

Dedan means “their breasts; friendship; a judge.”
Hitchcock's Bible Names Dictionary (1869)boy name

Dedan in Hebrew and Greek

דְּדָן H1719

Dᵉdân (ded-awn') — Dedan, the name of two Cushites and of their territory

or (prolonged) דְּדָנֶה; (Ezekiel 25:13), of uncertain derivation;

People named Dedan in the Bible

Places named Dedan

Dedan in Scripture

“Dedan” appears in 10 verses of the King James Version; here are the first 8.

  • Genesis 10:7

    And the sons of Cush; Seba, and Havilah, and Sabtah, and Raamah, and Sabtecha: and the sons of Raamah; Sheba, and Dedan.

  • Genesis 25:3

    And Jokshan begat Sheba, and Dedan. And the sons of Dedan were Asshurim, and Letushim, and Leummim.

  • 1 Chronicles 1:9

    And the sons of Cush; Seba, and Havilah, and Sabta, and Raamah, and Sabtecha. And the sons of Raamah; Sheba, and Dedan.

  • 1 Chronicles 1:32

    Now the sons of Keturah, Abraham’s concubine: she bare Zimran, and Jokshan, and Medan, and Midian, and Ishbak, and Shuah. And the sons of Jokshan; Sheba, and Dedan.

  • Jeremiah 25:23

    Dedan, and Tema, and Buz, and all that are in the utmost corners,

  • Jeremiah 49:8

    Flee ye, turn back, dwell deep, O inhabitants of Dedan; for I will bring the calamity of Esau upon him, the time that I will visit him.

  • Ezekiel 25:13

    Therefore thus saith the Lord God; I will also stretch out mine hand upon Edom, and will cut off man and beast from it; and I will make it desolate from Teman; and they of Dedan shall fall by the sword.

  • Ezekiel 27:15

    The men of Dedan were thy merchants; many isles were the merchandise of thine hand: they brought thee for a present horns of ivory and ebony.