יְדוּתוּן

Strong’s Definition

Jeduthun, an Israelite

Etymology & Derivation

or יְדֻתוּן; or יְדִיתוּן; probably from H3034 (יָדָה); laudatory;

KJV Usage

Jeduthun.

Detailed Definition

From the Brown–Driver–Briggs (BDB) Hebrew lexicon outline.

• 1.a levite of the family of merari and the chief of one of the 3 choirs of the temple whose descendants also formed one of the perpetual temple choirs; he is named at the beginning of 3 psalms (39, 62, 77) either as the composer or the recipient of those psalms but most likely as the leader of the choir by which those psalms were to be sung

Scholarly Notes

Transliteration: Yᵉdûwthûwn; Pronunciation: yed-oo-thoon'