אֶ֫דֶן
base
also: pedestal, socket fuller range ↓
Full lexicon entry — Brown-Driver-Briggs (BDB)
From Brown-Driver-Briggs (BDB)
Where this word appears
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Grammar key — what these labels mean
Part of speech
- Noun
- A naming word — a person, place, thing, or idea.
Noun type
- Common
- A common noun — a general class of person, place, or thing (“king,” “city,” “water”), not a specific name.
State
- Construct
- A noun bound to a following noun in a possessive / “of” relationship (the construct chain).
- Absolute
- The independent form of a noun, not bound to a following word.
Gender
- Masculine
- Grammatically masculine.
Number
- Plural
- More than one (in Hebrew, generally three or more).
- Singular
- One.
8 distinct verses where H134 appears in the Absolute state, across 1 book. Filtered view — show all forms. Click any verse to open its interlinear word-by-word view. Verse text shown in the World English Bible for context — . Each verse’s Hebrew form is shown with its reference; the English is not keyword-highlighted, since the data carries no word-level English alignment. Use “Compare translations” on any verse to read it across multiple English versions. This concordance covers the Hebrew Bible; Septuagint (Greek Old Testament) occurrences are not indexed here.
Exodus 8 verses
- Exodus 26:19 אַדְנֵי אֲדָנִ֜ים אֲדָנִ֛ים n c mp cs n c mp n c mp You shall make forty sockets of silver under the twenty boards; two sockets under one board for its two tenons, and two sockets under another board for its two tenons.
- Exodus 26:21 אַדְנֵי/הֶ֖ם אֲדָנִ֗ים אֲדָנִ֔ים n c mp cs + sfx pers 3mp n c mp n c mp and their forty sockets of silver; two sockets under one board, and two sockets under another board.
- Exodus 26:25 וְ/אַדְנֵי/הֶ֣ם אֲדָנִ֑ים אֲדָנִ֗ים אֲדָנִ֔ים conj + n c mp cs + sfx pers 3mp n c mp n c mp n c mp There shall be eight boards, and their sockets of silver, sixteen sockets; two sockets under one board, and two sockets under another board.
- Exodus 36:24 אַדְנֵי אֲדָנִ֜ים אֲדָנִ֛ים n c mp cs n c mp n c mp He made forty sockets of silver under the twenty boards; two sockets under one board for its two tenons, and two sockets under another board for its two tenons.
- Exodus 36:26 אַדְנֵי/הֶ֖ם אֲדָנִ֗ים אֲדָנִ֔ים n c mp cs + sfx pers 3mp n c mp n c mp and their forty sockets of silver; two sockets under one board, and two sockets under another board.
- Exodus 36:30 וְ/אַדְנֵי/הֶ֣ם אֲדָנִ֑ים אֲדָנִים֙ אֲדָנִ֔ים conj + n c mp cs + sfx pers 3mp n c mp n c mp n c mp There were eight boards, and their sockets of silver, sixteen sockets; under every board two sockets.
- Exodus 38:17 וְ/הָ/אֲדָנִ֣ים conj + ptcl def.art + n c mp The sockets for the pillars were of brass. The hooks of the pillars and their fillets were of silver; and the overlaying of their capitals, of silver; and all the pillars of the court were filleted with silver.
- Exodus 38:27 אַדְנֵ֣י אַדְנֵ֣י אֲדָנִ֛ים לָ/אָֽדֶן n c mp cs n c mp cs n c mp prep det + n c ms The one hundred talents of silver were for casting the sockets of the sanctuary, and the sockets of the veil; one hundred sockets for the one hundred talents, a talent for a socket.
About this entry
At a glance — auto-summarized from this page’s data, not written by a person. Every figure links to its source below. This summary describes the numbers; it doesn’t interpret them.
At its core, אדן (ʼeden) means “base.” Its uses cluster heavily in Exodus (85% of all occurrences). Spanning 39 verses in 4 books, it ranks among the moderately common words of the Hebrew Bible. Beyond its headline sense, its full sense range takes in “pedestal” and “socket”. Its English rendering has broadened — “sockets” classically, “bases” (Berean Standard Bible) in modern versions; see the renderings breakdown. Each statement above links to its evidence; the full detail follows below.
Gloss history
Strong's 1890 vs modern scholarship
About this word
Strong's H134 catalogs a Hebrew word from the Hebrew Old Testament.
These counts are not copied from any lexicon or concordance. They are computed here, from the morphology-tagged Hebrew Old Testament. What Lemma adds →
- 39
- distinct verses
- The word appears in 39 distinct verses.
- 4 / 39
- OT books
- The word appears in 4 of 39 Old Testament books.
- #671
- by frequency
- Top 1000 most frequent Hebrew words (rank 671 of 8,640 Hebrew words by occurrence).
View all 39 occurrences in the concordance →
By section of the Old Testament
By traditional corpus
Conventional, traditional groupings — biblical authorship is debated, so this is a traditional corpus grouping, not an authorship claim. Each share is this word’s portion of its verses in that division of the Hebrew canon. Each figure is a share of the word’s 39 distinct verses.
- Torah (Pentateuch) 37 verses · 95%
- Writings (Ketuvim) 2 verses · 5%
How translations render this word
Counts come from each version’s own published word-to-Strong’s tagging or interlinear alignment — an approximate guide to how each version renders this word, not a word-level alignment the data otherwise carries. Because each total is that version’s own tagged count, the per-version totals vary from one another and need not match the appearance or distinct-verse counts above. These counts may also differ from a printed concordance because Lemma counts each distinctly tagged rendering and does not collapse phrase taggings into a single head-word total. This is a fixed set of word-tagged versions (KJV, ASV, BSB, ULT) and does not change with the reading translation you choose elsewhere. Each version’s license is shown beside its name below (and on Sources).
- King James Version: Sockets 52×
- American Standard Version: Sockets 51×, Pillars thereof 2×
- Berean Standard Bible: Bases 44×
- unfoldingWord Literal Text: Bases 41×, Bases of 14×, Their 14×
King James Version Public Domain
Renders H134 across 56 tagged occurrences — most commonly:
Plus 4 renderings that appear only once — usually multi-word phrases or single function words the recovered tagging swept in, not distinct renderings. Not rendered by a distinct English word in 1 further occurrence.
American Standard Version Public Domain
Renders H134 across 56 tagged occurrences — most commonly:
Plus 3 renderings that appear only once — usually multi-word phrases or single function words the recovered tagging swept in, not distinct renderings.
Berean Standard Bible Public Domain
Renders H134 across 46 tagged occurrences — most commonly:
Plus 2 renderings that appear only once — usually multi-word phrases or single function words the recovered tagging swept in, not distinct renderings. Not rendered by a distinct English word in 11 further occurrences.
unfoldingWord Literal Text CC BY-SA 4.0
Renders H134 across 73 tagged occurrences — most commonly:
Plus 4 renderings that appear only once — usually multi-word phrases or single function words the recovered tagging swept in, not distinct renderings.
Senses in the full BDB
What do BDB’s symbols mean?
BDB uses these scholarly abbreviations:
| Symbol | Meaning |
|---|---|
| 𝔊 | the Septuagint (the ancient Greek translation, LXX) |
| 𝔙 | the Vulgate (the Latin translation) |
| 𝔖 | the Syriac version (the Peshitta) |
| 𝔗 | the Targum (the Aramaic translation) |
| ψ | the Psalms |
| √ | root (the underlying root or stem) |
| ‖ | parallel passage (a synonymous or contrasted parallel) |
| † | the dagger: every passage where the word occurs is cited |
The 3 senses and sub-senses the full Brown-Driver-Briggs lexicon distinguishes for this word, in lexicon order (not ranked by frequency), with BDB’s own verbatim wording and sub-sense lettering. Shown in Hebrew script with BDB’s own scholarly abbreviations. The condensed entry is in the Lexicon Entry tab. See also the Forms in the corpus table below.
- 1. pedestals of fine gold, on wh. pillars of marble were set Ct 5:15. e.g. Song of Solomon 5:15
- 2. pedestals of the earth on wh. its pillars were placed Jb 38:6 (‖ corner-stone). e.g. Job 38:6
- 3. (metal) pedestals, bases, or sockets in wh. tenons of planks & pillars of tabernacle were set up; two for each plank & one for each pillar Ex 26:19(×3) + 52 textual in Ex 26.27.35–40 Nu 3.4 (all P); cf. 𝔊 Sm Co for אָרְכּוֹ Ez 41:22, of altar. e.g. Exodus 26:19
Senses from the full Brown-Driver-Briggs lexicon (Brown, Driver, Briggs; Oxford 1906 — public domain), digitized via Sefaria, supplemented by the OpenScriptures HebrewLexicon (CC BY 4.0). Full attribution on Sources.
Word origin
n.m. Ex 26:19 base, pedestal—אָדֶ֑ן Ex 38:27; pl. אֲדָנִים Ex 26:19 +; cstr. אַדְנֵי Ct 5:15 +, etc.
— Brown-Driver-Briggs (Oxford 1906, public domain), digitized via Sefaria, supplemented by the OpenScriptures HebrewLexicon (CC BY 4.0). See Sources.
Derived from אדון (ʼâdôwn) (H113) — lord.
Jastrow Dictionary
A second Hebrew/Aramaic lexicon for comparison, covering Aramaic and post-biblical (Talmudic, Targumic, Midrashic) usage that the biblical-Hebrew BDB does not. Matched by lemma rather than by Strong’s number, so a lemma may carry more than one Jastrow headword (shown separately below), and the entries cover usage well beyond the Bible.
אֶדֶן
- v. אוּדְנָא III; √דן, base, pedestal. Pl. אֲדָנִים. Y. Sabb. VII, 10ᵈ top; Babl. ib. 98ᵇ. Y. Shek. I, 45ᵈ bot.
אֻדַן
- , v. אוּ׳
A Dictionary of the Targumim, the Talmud Babli and Yerushalmi, and the Midrashic Literature (Marcus Jastrow; London, Luzac, 1903) — Public Domain. Digitized via Sefaria. Digitized via Sefaria. Full attribution on Sources.
Forms in the corpus
The 28 distinct written forms H134 takes in the Hebrew Bible, most frequent first — each parse links to that state’s occurrences in the concordance. Hebrew forms include their vowel points and cantillation, so a single lemma takes many written forms.
Same root — word family
Other BDB entries built from the same root as H134, grouped by Strong’s listed origin. These share a root / origin per the lexicon — not necessarily a shared meaning. Each links to that word’s own entry.
Derives from
Shares the same root
Proper names from this root
People and places named from this root — a name, not an additional meaning of the word.
- אדון ʼAddôwn H114 Addon
- אדניבזק ʼĂdônîy-Bezeq H137 Adoni-Bezek
- אדניה ʼĂdônîyâh H138 Adonijah
- אדניצדק ʼĂdônîy-Tsedeq H139 Adoni-zedek
- אדניקם ʼĂdônîyqâm H140 Adonikam
- אדנירם ʼĂdônîyrâm H141 Adoniram
- אדן ʼAddân H135 Addan
Compare all same-root words → Showing 4 of 11 — not the complete family. 7 of the same-root words are proper names (people or places). They share a root, not necessarily a meaning.
Septuagint verse parallels
This word appears in 34 verses that also exist in the Greek Old Testament (Septuagint), out of the 39 Hebrew verses it occurs in. You can read those verses in Greek by switching the Old Testament edition to the Septuagint.
Read these verses in the Septuagint
This is a verse-level parallel only — the same verses exist in both the Hebrew and Greek Old Testaments. No word-level Hebrew↔Greek correspondence is claimed: the data carries no such alignment, so no Greek word is shown as this Hebrew word’s translation. Coverage is not total — the Septuagint omits the deuterocanon and renumbers the Psalms, so some Hebrew verses have no direct Greek parallel.
