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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
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