אֲדָר
Adar
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Full lexicon entry — Brown-Driver-Briggs (BDB)
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Where this word appears
Grammar key — what these labels mean
Part of speech
- Noun
- A naming word — a person, place, thing, or idea.
Noun type
- Proper
- A name of a specific person, place, or people (e.g. Abraham, Zion, Israel).
Every verse where H143 appears — 8 distinct verses across 1 book. 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.
Esther 8 verses
- Esther 3:7 אֲדָֽר n Proper In the first month, which is the month Nisan, in the twelfth year of king Ahasuerus, they cast Pur, that is, the lot, before Haman from day to day, and from month to month, [to] the twelfth [month], which is the month Adar.
- Esther 3:13 אֲדָ֑ר n Proper Letters were sent by posts into all the king's provinces, to destroy, to kill, and to cause to perish, all Jews, both young and old, little children and women, in one day, even on the thirteenth [day] of the twelfth month, which is the month Adar, and to take the spoil of them for a prey.
- Esther 8:12 אֲדָֽר n Proper on one day in all the provinces of king Ahasuerus, [namely], on the thirteenth [day] of the twelfth month, which is the month Adar.
- Esther 9:1 אֲדָ֗ר n Proper Now in the twelfth month, which is the month Adar, on the thirteenth day of the same, when the king's commandment and his decree drew near to be put in execution, on the day that the enemies of the Jews hoped to have rule over them, (whereas it was turned to the contrary, that the Jews had rule over those who hated them),
- Esther 9:15 אֲדָ֔ר n Proper The Jews who were in Shushan gathered themselves together on the fourteenth day also of the month Adar, and killed three hundred men in Shushan; but they didn't lay their hand on the spoil.
- Esther 9:17 אֲדָ֑ר n Proper [This was done] on the thirteenth day of the month Adar; and on the fourteenth day of the same they rested, and made it a day of feasting and gladness.
- Esther 9:19 אֲדָ֔ר n Proper Therefore do the Jews of the villages, who dwell in the unwalled towns, make the fourteenth day of the month Adar [a day of] gladness and feasting, and a good day, and of sending portions one to another.
- Esther 9:21 אֲדָ֔ר n Proper to enjoin those who they should keep the fourteenth day of the month Adar, and the fifteenth day of the same, yearly,
About this entry
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“Adar” is the headline sense of the Hebrew name אדר (ʼĂdâr). More than three-quarters of its appearances fall in Esther. It appears 8 verses across 1 book of the Hebrew Bible, among its uncommon vocabulary. First canonically at Esther 3:7, it enters the text early. The sections below give every occurrence and version rendering.
Gloss history
Strong's 1890 vs modern scholarship
About this word
Strong's H143 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 →
- 8
- distinct verses
- The word appears in 8 distinct verses.
- 1 / 39
- OT books
- The word appears in 1 of 39 Old Testament books.
- #2,625
- by frequency
- Top 5000 most frequent Hebrew words (rank 2,625 of 8,640 Hebrew words by occurrence).
View all 8 occurrences in the concordance →
Most concentrated in
- Esther 8 verses 100%
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 8 distinct verses.
- Writings (Ketuvim) 8 verses · 100%
How translations render this word
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- King James Version: Adar 8×
- American Standard Version: Adar 7×
- Berean Standard Bible: Adar 6×
- unfoldingWord Literal Text: Adar 8×
King James Version Public Domain
Renders H143 across 8 tagged occurrences — most commonly:
American Standard Version Public Domain
Renders H143 across 8 tagged occurrences — most commonly:
Plus 1 rendering that appears only once — usually multi-word phrases or single function words the recovered tagging swept in, not distinct renderings.
Berean Standard Bible Public Domain
Renders H143 across 8 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.
unfoldingWord Literal Text CC BY-SA 4.0
Renders H143 across 8 tagged occurrences — most commonly:
Senses in BDB
The 2 senses BDB distinguishes for this word, in lexicon order (not ranked by frequency or importance). The full entry — with sub-senses — is in the Lexicon Entry tab.
- Adar = "glorious"
- twelfth month, corresponding to modern March-April
Word origin
n.pr.[m.] 12th (Babylonian) month = Mar.–Apr. (late Heb. loan-word, = Bab. A(d)-daru v. DlW p. 188, cf. Al3 93, meaning dub. perhaps adâru, be darkened, eclipsed, but v. DlW p. 190) Est 3:7, 13; 8:12; 9:1, 15, 17, 19, 21; cf. Palm. Nab. אדר Vog8 EutNab 24.
— Brown-Driver-Briggs (Oxford 1906, public domain), digitized via Sefaria, supplemented by the OpenScriptures HebrewLexicon (CC BY 4.0). See Sources.
Origin: probably of foreign derivation
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 4 distinct written forms H143 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.
| Form | Parsing | Example | Uses |
|---|---|---|---|
| אֲדָ֔ר | Noun, Proper | Esther 9:15 | 3 |
| אֲדָ֑ר | Noun, Proper | Esther 3:13 | 2 |
| אֲדָֽר | Noun, Proper | Esther 3:7 | 2 |
| אֲדָ֗ר | Noun, Proper | Esther 9:1 | 1 |
Same root — word family
Other BDB entries built from the same root as H143, 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.
Proper names from this root
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Bible dictionary
Public-domain dictionary articles matched to this entry by name (Adar). A biblical name can be shared by more than one person or place, so an article may treat several.
Easton's Bible Dictionary · M. G. Easton, 1897
Large, the sixth month of the civil and the twelfth of the ecclesiastical year of the Jews (Esther 3:7, 13; 8:12; 9:1, 15, 17, 19, 21). It included the days extending from the new moon of our March to the new moon of April. The name was first used after the Captivity. When the season was backward, and the lambs not yet of a paschal size, or the barley not forward enough for abib, then a month called Veadar, i.e., a second Adar, was intercalated.
Smith's Bible Dictionary · William Smith, 1863
[Month]
(high), a place on the south boundary of Judah. (Joshua 15:3)
Hitchcock's Bible Names Dictionary · Roswell D. Hitchcock, 1869
high; eminent
Classic public-domain reference works; full attribution on Sources.
Septuagint verse parallels
This word appears in 8 verses that also exist in the Greek Old Testament (Septuagint), out of the 8 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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