אלדעה

Hebrew

Etymology

From אֵל (el, “god, deity”) +‎ דָּעָה (da'a, “to call”). Note that דעה is an unused construction coming from the root י־ד־ע (y-d-') relating to "knowing". A similar construction is found in the Arabic دَعَا (da'a, “to call”). The name thus can be translated as "the one whom God calls".

Pronunciation

(Modern Israeli Hebrew) IPA^(key): /(ʔ)el.da(ʔ)a/
(Tiberian Hebrew) IPA^(key): /ʔɛl.dɔːʕɔː/

Proper noun

אֶלְדָּעָה • (Elda'a) m

(biblical) Eldaah, one of the sons of Midian.

References

H420 in Strong, James (1979) Strong’s Exhaustive Concordance to the Bible