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Dodo

Mentioned in 1054 BC traditional (Jones)

A Bethlehemite, and father of Elhanan, who was one of David’s thirty heroes (2 Sam. 23:24).

From Easton’s Bible Dictionary (1897).

Child
Elhanan
Tagged in
2 verses

Computed from the data. Years are traditional (Jones).

Family

Two generations up and the children. Gold lines join partners; grey lines run from parent to child; a dotted line marks a parent named in the text but not by descent.

Family tree of Dodo: two generations up and down, with partners and siblings.

Places

Places named in the same verses as Dodo, with the number of verses they share; a larger marker means more. Locations follow OpenBible.info, which grades each identification.

  1. likely location: Bethlehem2

Timeline

The strip runs from Creation to AD 100; the shaded part, 1079–1029 BC, is drawn below at a larger scale around these mentions, with 3 contemporaries. Years are traditional (Jones), shown as recorded, not as settled fact.

Timeline of Dodo’s mentions beside the people of the same era.

Mentions

Begat counts Dodo in 2 tagged verses across 2 books.

Select a book to read its verses.

  1. 2 Samuel1
  2. 1 Chronicles1

The name in each translation

TextOccurrences of each name
BSBDodo 5
KJVDodo 5
ASVDodo 4

Whole-word, case-sensitive count of the name string (regex \bName\b, so possessives like "Abraham's" count) across the whole Bible text of each translation; this counts the string, not the person, so other people who share the name are included and pronoun references are not. How Begat counts

Every verse

All 2 tagged verses, by book, in canonical order. The Berean Standard Bible is shown; switch to the King James or American Standard Version.

2 Samuel1 verse
  1. 23:24

    Now these were members of the Thirty: Asahel the brother of Joab, Elhanan son of Dodo of Bethlehem,

1 Chronicles1 verse
  1. 11:26

    Now these were the mighty men: Asahel the brother of Joab, Elhanan son of Dodo of Bethlehem,

Easton’s Bible Dictionary

The full entry, public domain, as printed in 1897.

A Bethlehemite, and father of Elhanan, who was one of David’s thirty heroes (2 Sam. 23:24).