Danite
See also: daníte
English
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ˈdæˌnaɪt/
Audio (US) (file)
- Hyphenation: Da‧nite, Dan‧ite
Noun
Danite (plural Danites)
- A descendant of Dan, fifth son of Jacob.
- A descendant or member of the tribe of Dan.
- (Mormonism, chiefly historical) A member of a fraternal vigilante group founded by members of the Latter Day Saints in the 1830s.
Usage notes
The second sense used to refer to a band of armed men formed into companies of tens and fifties, as described by Mr. Sampson Avard; the phrase "Council of Fifty" was used in discourse against that group.
Adjective
Danite (not comparable)
- Of or pertaining to Dan, or to the tribe of Dan.
See also
- Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob (Israel)
- (descendants of the patriarch Jacob, later renamed Israel): Asher (Asherite), Benjamin (Benjaminite), Dan (Danite), Gad (Gadite), Issachar (Issacharite), Joseph (Josephite: Ephraim (Ephraimite), Manasseh (Manassite)), Judah (Judahite), Levi (Levite), Naphtali (Naphtalite), Reuben (Reubenite), Simeon (Simeonite), Zebulun (Zebulunite)
- Israel
- Israeli
- Israelite
- Israelitic
- Israelitish
- Jew
- Jewish
- Judah
- Judean
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