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 H144 appears — 1 distinct verse 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.
Ezra 1 verse
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אדר — transliterated ʼĂdâr — is a Hebrew name carrying the sense “Adar.” With only 1 verse it sits in the long tail of Hebrew Bible vocabulary. More than three-quarters of its appearances fall in Ezra. It occurs only once, in Ezra 6:15. See 1-verse concordance and the renderings breakdown below.
Gloss history
Strong's 1890 vs modern scholarship
About this word
Strong's H144 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 →
- 1
- distinct verses
- The word appears in 1 distinct verse.
- 1 / 39
- OT books
- The word appears in 1 of 39 Old Testament books.
- #6,101
- by frequency
- Rank #6,101 (rank 6,101 of 8,640 Hebrew words by occurrence).
View all 1 occurrence in the concordance →
Most concentrated in
- Ezra 1 verse 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 1 distinct verse.
- Writings (Ketuvim) 1 verse · 100%
How translations render this word
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- King James Version: Adar 1×
- American Standard Version: Adar 1×
- Berean Standard Bible: Adar 1×
- unfoldingWord Literal Text: Adar 1×
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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 or 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.
Derived from אדר (ʼĂdâr) (H143) — Adar.
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.
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
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