אָדַר
to be great
also: be majestic, wide, noble 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
- Verb
- An action or state-of-being word.
Stem
- Hiphil
- The causative active stem (“he caused / brought about”).
- Niphal
- Usually the simple passive or reflexive of the Qal (“he was written”).
Form
- Imperfect
- An incomplete, ongoing, or future action (“he will / would write”).
- Participle Active
- A verbal adjective expressing ongoing or characteristic action (“writing / one who writes”).
State
- Absolute
- The independent form of a noun, not bound to a following word.
- Construct
- A noun bound to a following noun in a possessive / “of” relationship (the construct chain).
Person
- 3rd Person
- The one spoken about (“he / she / it / they”).
Gender
- Masculine
- Grammatically masculine.
Number
- Singular
- One.
Grammatical forms
- Verb, Hiphil, Imperfect, 3rd Person, Masculine, Singular 1 time (33%)
- Verb, Niphal, Participle Active, Masculine, Singular, Absolute 1 time (33%)
- Verb, Niphal, Participle Active, Masculine, Singular, Construct 1 time (33%)
Parsed forms decoded from the imported morphology (morphhb / Westminster Leningrad Codex — WLC text public domain, morphhb tagging CC BY 4.0), counted across 3 parsed occurrences — not distinct verses.
Every verse where H142 appears — 3 distinct verses across 2 books. 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 2 verses
- Exodus 15:6 נֶאְדָּרִ֖י Niphal ptcp.act ms cs Your right hand, Yahweh, is glorious in power, Your right hand, Yahweh, dashes the enemy in pieces.
- Exodus 15:11 נֶאְדָּ֣ר Niphal ptcp.act ms Who is like you, Yahweh, among the gods? Who is like you, glorious in holiness, Fearful in praises, doing wonders?
Isaiah 1 verse
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.
“to be great” is the headline sense of the Hebrew verb אדר (ʼâdar). It is rare — just 3 verses in the entire Hebrew Bible. More than two-thirds of its appearances fall in Exodus. First canonically at Exodus 15:6, it enters the text early. Different stems carry different senses — BDB groups them under 2 stems, among them Niphal and Hiphil. The sections below give every sense, occurrence, and version rendering.
Gloss history
Strong's 1890 vs modern scholarship
About this word
Strong's H142 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 →
- 3
- distinct verses
- The word appears in 3 distinct verses.
- 2 / 39
- OT books
- The word appears in 2 of 39 Old Testament books.
- #4,179
- by frequency
- Top 5000 most frequent Hebrew words (rank 4,179 of 8,640 Hebrew words by occurrence).
View all 3 occurrences in the concordance →
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 3 distinct verses.
- Torah (Pentateuch) 2 verses · 67%
- Prophets (Nevi'im) 1 verse · 33%
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: Is become glorious 1×, Is like thee glorious 1×, Make it honourable 1×
- American Standard Version: Is glorious 1×, Is like thee 1×, Make it honorable 1×
- Berean Standard Bible: Is majestic 1×, Majestic 1×, Make it glorious 1×
- unfoldingWord Literal Text: Glorify 1×, Is majestic 1×, It 1×
King James Version Public Domain
Renders H142 across 3 tagged occurrences — most commonly:
American Standard Version Public Domain
Renders H142 across 3 tagged occurrences — most commonly:
Berean Standard Bible Public Domain
Renders H142 across 3 tagged occurrences — most commonly:
unfoldingWord Literal Text CC BY-SA 4.0
Renders H142 across 4 tagged occurrences — most commonly:
Senses in the full BDB
Hebrew verbs can shift meaning by stem (binyan): Qal is the basic action, Niphal is often passive or reflexive, Piel often intensifies or makes it factitive, and Hiphil is typically causative. The senses below are grouped under the stem BDB assigns to each.
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 2 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.
Niphal
- . Pt. majestic, glorious
Hiphil
- . make glorious the teaching
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
[ אָדַר ] vb. (poet.) wide, great, (thence) high, noble
— Brown-Driver-Briggs (Oxford 1906, public domain), digitized via Sefaria, supplemented by the OpenScriptures HebrewLexicon (CC BY 4.0). See Sources.
Origin: a primitive root
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.
אָדַר
- to cut off, surround, isolate; whence
- 1. (b. h.) to distinguish.—Den. אַדִּיר.
- 2. (Assyr. v. אֲדָר) to darken.
- 3. *to strip. cmp. עדר.—B. Kam. 11ᵃ (ref. to עד Ex. XXII, 12, v. עַד in H. Dict.) יביא אֲדוּרָה לב"ד Ar. (ed. עֲדוּדָה, v. עדד; Ms. ארורה, corr. acc.) let him bring the stripped (the remnants of the torn animal, skin &c.) before court for assessment of damages. e.g. Exodus 22:12
אֲדַר
- v. אִדְּרָא, אִדְרָא, אִדְּרוֹנָא.
- to distinguish. Snh. 63ᵇ (play on Adrammelekh II Kings XVI, 31) דא׳ ליה וכ׳ (the mule) that gives distinction to its owner when travelling. e.g. 2 Kings 16:31
אֲדָר
- Assyr. the cloudy; v. Fred. Delitzsch, The Hebr. Lang. p. 15) Adar, the twelfth month of the Jewish calendar, containing twenty nine days, and varying between the eleventh of February and the twenty eighth of March. In leap years: א׳ רִאשֹׁון First Adar, of thirty days duration between the thirty first of January and the tenth of March; א׳ שֵׁנִי Second Adar, of twenty nine days, between the second of March and the eighth of April. Targ. II Esth. IX, 29; a. fr.—Meg. I, 4; a. fr.—Pl. אֲדָרִים, אֲדָרִין. R. Hash. 19ᵇ
אִדַּר
- (אדר, נדר v. אָדַר) a place cut off, circle (cmp. זִירָה), whence threshing place, barn; also the grain piled up in the barn for threshing; cmp. גּוֹרֶן. Targ. Hos. II, 11 בעידן א׳ at the season of its being piled up; a. fr.—Gen. R. s. 63 the shovel דאפיך אי׳ which upturns the grain in the barn (= prayer averting evil decrees). Ib. (play on אדרת Gen. XXV, 25) כקש מא׳ like chaff from the barn. Ruth R. to III, 3 להיכן אקימתא א׳ where didst thou put up the barn?—Pl. אִידְּרַיָּא, אִדְּרֵי &c. Dan. II, 35. Targ. I Sam. XXIII, 1; a. e. Cant. R. to VII, 3 (homilet. rendition of הסהר אגן Cant. l. c.) א׳ דאזהרה a rounded place (cmp. גורן, זירה) of enlightenment, i.e. hall of the Sanhedrin. [With א or נ rejected: בי דרי. Taan. 3ᵇ. B. Mets. 73ᵃ.] e.g. Genesis 25:25
אֵדֶר I
- (v. אָדַר 3) skin, hide, leather-bag. Y. Maas. Sh. IV, 55ᶜ אדר תורתא hide of a cow. Ib. אדרא (ברא) דתבנא; Lam. R. to I, 1 (חד כותאי 2) אדר דתבן Ar. (ed. דור) a hide stuffed with straw. Y. Shebi. V, 36ᵃ top א׳ דאילין חכימא וכ׳ the leather of these bottles is distinguishable from the leather of those.—Pl. אוּדְרְיָיתָא. Shebu. 29ᵇ תליסר א׳ דתבנא Ar. (ed. אורוותא; Ms. F. אדידתא, v. Rashi a. l.) thirteen bagfuls of straw; Ned. 25ᵃ
אֵדֶר II
- ch. m. (v. אָדַר) [thick-leaved, dark]
- 1. a cedar species, prob. Spanish Juniper. R. Hash. 23ᵃ מאי קדרוס (ם) אדרא Ms. M. (ed. קתרוס) what is kedros (κέδρος)? Adara. Snh. 108ᵇ what is gofer? רב אמר אדרא דבי ר׳ שילא אמר וכ׳ Ar. a Ms. Fl. (v. Rabb. D. S. a. l.); cmp. Gen. R. s. 31; Yalk. Gen. 51.—Bets. 15ᵇ יטע אדר וכ׳ let him plant an edar (allud. to addir &c., Ps. XCIII, 4); א"נ אדרא וכ׳ or adara as its (popular or Chald.) name is; as people say, it is called adara because it lasts for generations (א־דרא). Git. 69ᵇ אטרף א׳ leaves of ad. Ib. מיא דא׳ decoct thereof. e.g. Psalms 93:4
- 2. אִדְרָא fig-tree. Targ. II, Esth. VII, 9 (to which perhaps belongs. Git. l. c.). e.g. Esther 7:9
נְדַר I
- Targ. Num. XXX, 3; a. fr.—Ned. 22ᵃ אילו הוה ידעת … מי נַדְרַת if thou hadst known …, wouldst thou have vowed? Ib. 22ᵇ נדרת אדעת דהכי wouldst thou have made the vow, if thou hadst known this. Ib. לא נַדְרִי I should not have vowed. Ib. 9ᵃ לא נְדרְנָא I will not vow; a. v. fr.
- as preced. Hif. Ib. 21ᵇ דאַדַּרְתָּהּ לברתה who forbade her daughter all benefits from her. Ib. 24ᵃ אַדְּרֵיה מזמנא וכ׳ the host urged the guest with a vow; אדריה זמינא וכ׳ the guest caused the host to invite him with a vow. Ib. 22ᵃ מי אדרתה wouldst thou have forbidden her? Gitt. 36ᵃ דאַדְּרֵיה ר׳ אחא whom R. A. forbade to teach. Keth. 70ᵇ אַדַּרְתָּן thou hast put me under restrictions; a fr.
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 3 distinct written forms H142 takes in the Hebrew Bible, most frequent first — each parse links to that stem’s occurrences in the concordance. Hebrew forms include their vowel points and cantillation, so a single lemma takes many written forms.
| Form | Parsing | Example | Uses |
|---|---|---|---|
| וְ/יַאְדִּֽיר | Verb, Hiphil, Imperfect, 3rd Person, Masculine, Singular | Isaiah 42:21 | 1 |
| נֶאְדָּ֣ר | Verb, Niphal, Participle Active, Masculine, Singular, Absolute | Exodus 15:11 | 1 |
| נֶאְדָּרִ֖י | Verb, Niphal, Participle Active, Masculine, Singular, Construct | Exodus 15:6 | 1 |
Same root — word family
Other BDB entries built from the same root as H142, 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.
Derived from this word
Proper names from this root
People and places named from this root — a name, not an additional meaning of the word.
Compare all same-root words → Showing 4 of 7 — not the complete family. 3 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 3 verses that also exist in the Greek Old Testament (Septuagint), out of the 3 Hebrew verses it occurs in. You can read those verses in Greek by switching the Old Testament edition to the Septuagint.
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