דּוֹדָהdôwdâh

aunt (Leviticus 18:14; Leviticus 20:20; Exodus 6:20; Numbers 26:59)

Pronunciation: do-daw' · Hebrew/Aramaic (Old Testament) · H1733

Same root

Where it appears

Appears 3 times in the Bible.

  • Exodus 6:20 Amram married his father’s sister Jochebed, and she gave birth to his sons, Aaron and Moses. (Amram lived to be 137 years old.)
  • Leviticus 18:14 “Do not violate your uncle, your father’s brother, by having sexual relations with his wife, for she is your aunt.
  • Leviticus 20:20 “If a man has sex with his uncle’s wife, he has violated his uncle. Both the man and woman will be punished for their sin, and they will die childless.

Source: Brown, Driver and Briggs, Hebrew and English Lexicon of the Old Testament (1906), public domain; markup by unfoldingWord, CC BY (github.com/unfoldingWord/Brown-Driver-Briggs-Enhanced).