Lexical Definition

‎יְדוּתוּן‎ Yᵉdûwthûwn (yed-oo-thoon') Jeduthun ^N:N-M-P
or יְדֻתוּן Yᵉduthûwn (yed-oo-thoon'); or יְדִיתוּן Yᵉdîythûwn (yed-ee-thoon'); probably from ‎יָדָה‎; laudatory

Jeduthun.

• § Jeduthun = "praising"
• Jeduthun, an Israelite

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 (Ps 39:1; 62:1; 77:1) 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

Brown-Driver-Briggs

‎יְדוּתוּן‎, ‎יְדֻתוּן‎ proper name, masculine usually ‎יְדוּתוּן‎; ‎יְדֻתוּן‎ 2Chr 5:12; 2Chr 35:15 ‎יְדיּ֯תוּן‎ Ps 39:1*; Ps 77:1*; Neh 11:37; 1Chr 16:38 chief of one of the three choirs of the temple (only Chronicles & Psalm-titles) 1Chr 9:16; 1Chr 16:38; 1Chr 16:41; 1Chr 16:42; 1Chr 25:3 (twice in verse); 1Chr 25:6; 2Chr 5:12 the king's seer 2Chr 35:15 his descendants formed one of the perpetual temple choirs ‎בְּנֵי יְדוּתוּן‎ 1Chr 16:42; 1Chr 25:1; 1Chr 25:3; 2Chr 29:14 ‎בֶּןיְֿדיּ֯תוּן‎ Neh 11:17. In Psalm-titles ‎על ידותון‎ Ps 62:1*; Ps 77:1* (Qr); ‎לִידיּתוּן‎ Ps 39:1* (‎לְ‎ error for ‎עלֿ‎), all = after the manner of (the choir of) Yeduthun (musical term according to RS^{OTJC 422, 2nd ed. 143}). — see also Lag^{Or ii. 16 ff.} and proper name ‎אָסָף‎, ‎הֵימָן‎ (sub ‎אמן‎), ‎אֵיתָן‎ (sub ‎יתן‎).

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