Biblical Hebrew

hebrew #1912 - הֹדוּ Hoddu (India)

Original Word:	הֹדוּ
Transliteration:	Hoddu
Definition:	India
Part of Speech:	Proper Name Location
Phonetic Spelling:	(ho'-doo)
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Strong's Exhaustive Concordance

India

Of foreign origin; Hodu (i.e. Hindu-stan) -- India.

Englishman's Concordance

India=“flee away” or “ give ye thanks”
1) the country surrounding the Indus, mentioned as the eastern border of the empire of Ahasuerus
Part of Speech: noun proper locative
A Related Word by BDB/Strong’s Number: of foreign origin

Brown-Driver-Briggs

הֹ֫דּוּproper name, of a locationIndia (Old Persian Hiñd°u Spieg^{Altpers. Keilinschr. 246} Sanskrit Sindhu, sea, great river, see references in Rö^{Thes Add 83}, Yule^{Anglo-Indian Glossary, 329 ff.}; compare in Arabic

, Aramaic

, etc.) only מֵהֹ֫דּוּ וְעַדכּֿוּשׁ (הַמֹּלֵךְ) Esther 1:1; Esther 8:9 (ᵐ5 in both ἀπὸ τῆς Ἰνδικῆς).

Englishman's Concordance (References)

Strong's Hebrew: 1912. Hoddu — 2 Occurrences

Esther 1:1
HEB:אֲחַשְׁוֵר֗וֹשׁ הַמֹּלֵךְ֙ מֵהֹ֣דּוּ וְעַד־ כּ֔וּשׁ
NAS: who reigned from India to Ethiopia
KJV: which reigned, from India even unto Ethiopia,
INT: (this Ahasuerus reigned India unto Ethiopia

Esther 8:9
HEB:הַמְּדִינ֜וֹת אֲשֶׁ֣ר ׀ מֵהֹ֣דּוּ וְעַד־ כּ֗וּשׁ
NAS: which [extended] from India to Ethiopia,
KJV: of the provinces which [are] from India unto Ethiopia,
INT: provinces are India unto Ethiopia

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