Doeg

In Bible versions:

Doeg: NET AVS NIV NRSV NASB TEV

a man from Edom who was chief of Saul's herdsmen

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careful, who acts with uneasiness

Arts:

Arts Topics: Portraits of Doeg

Hebrew

Strongs #01673: gad Do'eg or (fully) gawd Dow'eg

Doeg = "fearing"

1) an Edomite, chief of Saul's herdsmen, who slew all the priests

1673 Do'eg do-ayg'

or (fully) Dowoeg {do-ayg'}; active participle of 1672;
anxious; Doeg, an Edomite:-Doeg.
see HEBREW for 01672

Doeg [EBD]

fearful, an Edomite, the chief overseer of Saul's flocks (1 Sam. 21:7). At the command of Saul he slew the high priest Ahimelech (q.v.) at Nob, together with all the priests to the number of eighty-five persons. (Comp. Ps. 52, title.)

Doeg [NAVE]

DOEG
An Edomite, present when Ahimelech helped David, 1 Sam. 21:7; 22:9, 22; Psa. 52.
Killed eight-five priests, 1 Sam. 22:18, 19.

DOEG [SMITH]

(fearful), an Idumean, chief of Saul?s herdmen. (B.C. 1062.) He was at Nob when Ahimelech gave David the sword of Goliath, and not only gave information to Saul, but when others declined the office, himself executed the king?s order to destroy the priests of Nob, with their families, to the number of 85 persons, together with all their property. (1 Samuel 21:7; 22:9,18,22; Psalms 52)

DOEG [ISBE]

DOEG - do'-eg (do'-egh "anxious," "cared for"): "The Edomite," a servant of Saul, who watched David's intercourse with the priest Ahimelech, then denounced the priest to the king, and later executed his command to slay the priests at Nob. The position he held is described as that of "the mightiest" of Samuel's herdsmen (1 Sam 21:7 margin). Septuagint reads: "tending the mules." Rabbinical legends speak of him as the greatest scholar of his time. The traditional title of Ps 52 associates the composition of that Psalms with the events that led to the slaying of the priests (1 Sam 21:7; 22:9,18,22).

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