עֵ֫דֶר
Eder
BDB lists 3 entries for ‘Eder’ fuller range ↓
Full lexicon entry — Brown-Driver-Briggs (BDB)
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Where this word appears
Grammar key — what these labels mean
Noun type
- Proper
- A name of a specific person, place, or people (e.g. Abraham, Zion, Israel).
Every verse where H5740 appears in the Book of 1 Chronicles — 2 distinct verses. 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.
1 Chronicles
About this entry
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“Eder” is the headline sense of the Hebrew name עדר (ʻÊder). The Hebrew Bible uses it only 3 verses. More than two-thirds of its appearances fall in 1 Chronicles. Scripture first uses it in Joshua 15:21. The sections below give every occurrence and version rendering.
Gloss history
Strong's 1890 vs modern scholarship
About this word
Strong's H5740 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 →
Most concentrated in
- 1 Chronicles 2 verses 67%
- Joshua 1 verse 33%
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 3 distinct verses.
- Writings (Ketuvim) 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).
BDB lists this Strong’s number as 3 distinct words (homographs). Each count above pools all of them and is not split by sense — see the Senses section below. A low-frequency rendering may belong to a different one of those words, not the primary meaning.
- King James Version†: Eder 3×
- American Standard Version†: Eder 3×
- Berean Standard Bible†: Eder 3×
- unfoldingWord Literal Text†: Eder 3×
King James Version Public Domain
Renders H5740 across 3† tagged occurrences — most commonly:
American Standard Version Public Domain
Renders H5740 across 3† tagged occurrences — most commonly:
Berean Standard Bible Public Domain
Renders H5740 across 3† tagged occurrences — most commonly:
unfoldingWord Literal Text CC BY-SA 4.0
Renders H5740 across 3† tagged occurrences — most commonly:
7 senses and sub-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 7 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.
עדר I Gn 29, 2 flock, herd (NH id.
- 1. flock:
- a. of sheep, ע׳ צֹאן Gn 29:2 (J), Mi 5:7, ע׳ הַצּ׳ Jo 1:18; cf. Gn 29:2, 3, 8; 30:40 (all J), 1 S 17:34 Je 51:23 Mal 1:14; ‖ צֹאן Ez 34:12 (sim.), Pr 27:23; + בְּהֵמָה 2 Ch 32:28; ע׳ הָֽרְחֵלִים Ct 6:6 = 4:2 (ins. prob. הָֽר׳); sign of desolation Is 17:2; 32:14 (מִרְעֵה ע׳), Zp 2:14 Je 6:3, of peace 31:24; in sim. also Mi 2:12 Je 31:10 ψ 78:52; fig. of Isr. Is 40:11 Je 13:20 (‖ זֹאן), ע׳ יהוה v 17, so עֶדְרוֹ Zc 10:3. e.g. Genesis 29:2
- b. of goats, ע׳ הָעִוִּים Ct 4:1; 6:5. e.g. Song of Solomon 4:1
- c. undefined Ju 5:16 Jb 24:2 Ct 1:7. e.g. Judges 5:16
- 2. herds, flocks and herds:
- a. incl. sheep, cattle, etc., Gn 32:17(×4), 20 (cf. v 14; all E) e.g. Genesis 32:17
- b. specif. ע׳ בָקָר Jo 1:18.—מִגְדַּל־עֵדֶר v. p. 154 supr. e.g. Joel 1:18
עדר II m. (cf. Nab. n.pr. עדרו = Arabic غُدَرُ Lzb 337)
עדר III loc. in extreme S. of Judah Jos 15
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
I. n.m. Gn 29, 2 flock, herd (NH id.; Aramaic עַדְרָא on 𝔊 Γαδερ Gn 35:16 (= ℌ v 21) v LagBN 76 f., who assigns ע׳ therefore, plausibly, to III. עדר (غدر), as lagging, loitering);—ע׳ abs. Gn 32:17(×2) +, cstr. Ct 4:1 +; sf. עֶדְרוֹ Is 40:11 +; pl. עֲדָרִים Gn 29:2 +, cstr. עֶדְרֵי Mi 5:7 +, etc.;—
II. n.pr.m. (cf. Nab. n.pr. עדרו = Arabic غُدَرُ Lzb 337);—a Levite 1 Ch 23:23; 24:30, 𝔊 Αιδαθ, Ηλα, A 𝔊L Εδερ.
III. n.pr.loc. in extreme S. of Judah Jos 15:21, site unknown; 𝔊 Αρα, A Εδραι, 𝔊L Εβερ.
— Brown-Driver-Briggs (Oxford 1906, public domain), digitized via Sefaria, supplemented by the OpenScriptures HebrewLexicon (CC BY 4.0). See Sources.
Derived from עדר (ʻêder) (H5739) — flock.
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.
עָדַר
- 1. to strip.—Part. pass. עָדוּר; f. עֲדוּרָה, v. אָדַר.
- 2. to pluck, clear (of weeds); to hoe; to pick (figs, cmp. אָרָה); [b. h. also: to sift an army, to discharge the unfit &c., to muster out, v. I Chr. XII, 34; 39]. Neg. II, 4; Sifra Thazr., Neg., Par. 3, ch. IV כעוֹדֵר in the position of one hoeing; כעודר בבית הסתרים the position of one hoeing is required for the examination of the posteriors. Tosef. Maasr. II, 14 פועלים שהיו עוֹדְרִין בתאנים laborers engaged in picking figs; B. Mets. 89ᵇ (Ar. אורין, v. אָרָה). Ib. לַעֲדוֹר ולקשקש וכ׳ Rashi (ed. לעַדֵּר, Pi.) to hoe and to cover up the roots of olive trees. B. Kam. 119ᵇ עוֹדְרֵי ירקות engaged in thinning vegetables (cmp. דָּלַל); a. fr. e.g. 1 Chronicles 12:34
- same. Tosef. Maasr. II, 13 מְעַדְּרִין בשדה engaged in hoeing a field. Gen. R. s. 82 better is he who rents one field ומזבלה ומְעַדְּרָהּ וכ׳ and manures and hoes it &c. Y. Maasr. III, end, 51ᵃ והוא שעי׳ רובה provided he broke the ground of the larger portion of the court; a. fr.—[Tosef. Makhsh. I, 3 מעודר, ed. Zuck. מעודרון, v. עוּד.]
- 1. to be hoed, to be prepared for tillage. Y. l. c. והיא שתהא נעדרת provided the ground of the court has been broken (before sowing). Ib. 50ᵈ bot. חצר שהיא נעדרת ונזרעת R. S. to Maasr. III, 9 (ed. only נעדרת) a court which has been hoed up and planted with seeds; a. e.
- 2. to be cast out, rejected, banished. Sot. IX, 15 (49ᵇ) והאמת תהא נעדרת and Truth shall be banished (fr. Is. LIX, 15); Snh. 97ᵃ; Cant. R. to II, 13; v. עֵדֶר. e.g. Isaiah 59:15
- 3. to withdraw one’s self, fail. Lev. R. s. 31; Midr. Till. to Ps. XIX; Yalk. ib. 673 (expl. Zeph. III, 5), v. פְּסַק. e.g. Zephaniah 3:5
עֲדַר I
- , to hoe; (of chickens) to pick. Lev. R. s. 25 זיל עֲדוֹר וכ׳ go and pick in thy own dunghill; Yalk. Job 925.
- same. Lev. R. l. c. ומְעַדְּרָה קדמיהון (not ומעדרנה) and she (the mother) picks for them; Yalk. l. c. (not ומעררה).
עֲדַר II
- = h. עָזַר, to help. Targ. Prov. XIII, 12 דמשרי למְעַדְרֵיה (ed. Lag. a. oth. דמשדי) who begins to help himself (v. Pesh. a. LXX).
- to be helped. Ib. XVIII, 19 דמִתְעֲדַר (oth. ed. דמתעוי; v. Pesh. a. LXX).
עֵדֶר
- enclosure, pen, fold; herd, flock. Ohol. VIII, 1 ע׳ בהמה וכ׳ clean or unclean beasts closely penned; Tosef. ib. IX, 1; [Ar. s. v. אדר, ed. Koh. s. v. אדורה, I, p. 39ᵃ, explains our w.: hide, v. עָדַר 1, a. עָדַד]. Yoma 34ᵇ; 70ᵇ; Meg. 28ᵃ אחד מיוחד שבעֶדְרוֹ ‘one’ (Num. XXVIII, 4) means one singled out (the best) of its fold. Bekh. 24ᵃ הנכנס לתוך עדרו וכ׳ if one enters his pen at night. Naz. V, 3 תצא ותרעה בע׳ let it go and be fed in the fold (as a profane animal). Yoma 61ᵇ, sq. וכי עדרו משלח … וכי עדרו שורף shall one send off his whole flock (of goats)?… shall one burn &c.?; a. fr.—Pl. עֲדָרִים, עֲדָרִין. Ex. R. s. 1 באין ע׳ ע׳ וכ׳ they came to their homes in flocks; א"ת עדי עדיים אלא עֶדְרֵי ע׳ read not (Ez. XVI, 7) ʿădi ʿădayim (choice attractions) but ‘edré ʿădarim (flocks after flocks). Cant. R. to II, 13 (ref. to Is. LIX, 5) להיכן הולכת … ויושבת ע׳ ע׳ במדבר whither does banished Truth go (v. עָדַר)? She goes and sits down in groups (of eremites) in the desert; Snh. 97ᵃ; Yalk. Is. 357; a. fr.—Tosef. Eduy. III, 2 נוחרין היו עֲדָרוֹת וכ׳ they stabbed entire herds in the camp. (v., however, עָרוֹד).—מִגְדַּל עֵדֶר (b. h.) pr. n. pl. Migdal Eder (Fold Tower), between Bethlehem and Jerusalem. Shek. VII, 4; Kidd. 55ᵃ e.g. Numbers 28:4
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 2 distinct written forms H5740 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| וְ/עֵ֖דֶר | Noun, Proper | 1 Chronicles 24:30 | 2 |
| וְ/עֵ֛דֶר | Noun, Proper | 1 Chronicles 23:23 | 1 |
Same root — word family
Other BDB entries built from the same root as H5740, 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.
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Bible dictionary
Public-domain dictionary articles matched to this entry by name (Eder). 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
Flock. (1.) A city in the south of Judah, on the border of Idumea (Josh. 15:21).
(2.) The second of the three sons of Mushi, of the family of Merari, appointed to the Levitical office (1 Chr. 23:23; 24:30).
Smith's Bible Dictionary · William Smith, 1863
(a flock).
+ One of the towns of Judah, in the extreme south, and on the borders of Edom. (Joshua 15:21) No trace of it has been discovered in modern times. + A Levite of the family of Merari, in the time of David. (1 Chronicles 23:23; 24:30)
Hitchcock's Bible Names Dictionary · Roswell D. Hitchcock, 1869
a flock
Classic public-domain reference works; full attribution on Sources.
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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