עֲטָרָה
crown
Full lexicon entry — Brown-Driver-Briggs (BDB)
From Brown-Driver-Briggs (BDB)
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
- 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
- Feminine
- Grammatically feminine.
Number
- Singular
- One.
- Plural
- More than one (in Hebrew, generally three or more).
Every verse where H5850 appears in the Book of Proverbs — 5 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.
Proverbs
- Proverbs 4:9 עֲטֶ֖רֶת n c fs cs She will give to your head a garland of grace. She will deliver a crown of splendor to you."
- Proverbs 12:4 עֲטֶ֣רֶת n c fs cs A worthy woman is the crown of her husband, But a disgraceful wife is as rottenness in his bones.
- Proverbs 14:24 עֲטֶ֣רֶת n c fs cs The crown of the wise is their riches, But the folly of fools crowns them with folly.
- Proverbs 16:31 עֲטֶ֣רֶת n c fs cs Gray hair is a crown of glory. It is attained by a life of righteousness.
- Proverbs 17:6 עֲטֶ֣רֶת n c fs cs Children's children are the crown of old men; The glory of children are their parents.
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.
עטרה — transliterated ʻăṭârâh — is a Hebrew noun carrying the sense “crown.” Its English rendering has broadened — “crown” classically, “crown of” (unfoldingWord Literal Text) in modern versions; see the renderings breakdown. Spanning 23 verses in 12 books, it ranks among the uncommon words of the Hebrew Bible. Its earliest occurrence is 2 Samuel 12:30. Sharing its root, it stands alongside עטר, עטרה and עטרות. 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 H5850 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 →
- 23
- distinct verses
- The word appears in 23 distinct verses.
- 12 / 39
- OT books
- The word appears in 12 of 39 Old Testament books.
- #1,368
- by frequency
- Top 2500 most frequent Hebrew words (rank 1,368 of 8,640 Hebrew words by occurrence).
View all 23 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 23 distinct verses.
- Writings (Ketuvim) 12 verses · 52%
- Prophets (Nevi'im) 11 verses · 48%
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 2 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†: Crown 15×, Crowns 3×, Is a crown 2×
- American Standard Version†: Crown 15×, Crowns 2×
- Berean Standard Bible†: Crown 18×, Crowns 2×
- unfoldingWord Literal Text†: Crown of 14×, Crowns 4×, Crown 3×
King James Version Public Domain
Renders H5850 across 23† 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.
American Standard Version Public Domain
Renders H5850 across 23† tagged occurrences — most commonly:
Plus 6 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 H5850 across 23† 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.
unfoldingWord Literal Text CC BY-SA 4.0
Renders H5850 across 24† 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.
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. of idol-image (Milcom, 𝔊 We Klo Dr Kit Löhr HPS) 2 S 12:30 = 1 Ch 20:2; golden, ע׳ פָּז ψ 21:4; ע׳ תִּפְאַרְתְּכֶם of king and queen, Je 13:18 the crown of your splendour; cf. Ez 21:31; wedding-crown Ct 3:11. e.g. 2 Samuel 12:30
- 2. ע׳ זָהָב Est 8:15 (of Mordecai); of silver and gold Zc 6:11, 14; ע׳ תִּפְאֶרֶת crown of splendour, on personif. Jerus. Ez 16:12 (in allegory), Jerus. and Samaria 23:42; ע׳ as appos. (= sim.) Jb 31:36. e.g. Esther 8:15
- 3. fig. of honour, etc., Jb 19:9 (‖ כְּבוֹדִי) La 5:16; אֵשֶׁת חַיִל ע׳ בַּעְלָהּ Pr 12:4, cf. 14:24; 17:6; ע׳ תִּפְאֶרֶת 16:31 (of שֵׂיבָה); gift of wisdom 4:9; fig. of Jerus. Is 62:3 (‖ צְנִיף מְלוּכָה), cf. ע׳ גֵאוּת 28:1, 3 fig. of Samaria; fig. of י׳, ע׳ צְבִי v 5 (‖ צְפִירַת תִּפְאָרָה). e.g. Job 19:9
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.f. crown, wreath;—abs. ע׳ Ez 21:31; Ct 3:11; cstr. עֲטֶרֶת 2 S 12:30 + 17 times; pl. עֲטָרוֹת Zc 6:11; Jb 31:36, עֲטָרֹת Zc 6:14;—crown:
II. n.pr.f. 1 Ch 2:26, Αταρα.
— Brown-Driver-Briggs (Oxford 1906, public domain), digitized via Sefaria, supplemented by the OpenScriptures HebrewLexicon (CC BY 4.0). See Sources.
Derived from עטר (ʻâṭar) (H5849) — to crown.
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.
עֲטָרָה
- 1. protection. Gen. R. s. 63, beg. (ref. to Prov. XVII, 6) האבות ע׳ לבנים והבנים ע׳ וכ׳ the fathers are a protection to their children (who are saved for their parents’ sake), and the children are a protection to their fathers; v. עָטַר Hithpa. e.g. Proverbs 17:6
- 2. wreath, crown, decoration. Ex. R. s. 5 לא היה יודע לשלח לי ע׳ did (your God) not have sense enough to send me a crown? Y. Sot. IX, 24ᵇ bot. ע׳ של זית a wreath of olive leaves; Lam. R. to V, 16 עֲטֶרֶת זית. Tosef. Sot. XV, 3 בטלה עטרת חכמים שעטרת חכמים עושרם the crown (or protection) of the scholars ceased, for the crown of the scholars is their wealth (independence, Prov. XIV, 24); Sot. 49ᵇ בטלו עַטְרוֹת וכ׳. Y. Dem. II, 22ᶜ bot., v. עָטַר Hithpa.—Yoma 69ᵇ החזירו ע׳ ליושנה they restored the crown (the praise of the Lord) to its original condition (by re-introducing the phrase האל הגדול הגבור והנורא; Y. Ber. VII, 11ᶜ הַגְּדוּלָּה). Ned. 62ᵃ; Ab. IV, 5 אל תעשם ע׳ וכ׳, v. גָּדַל. Meg. 15ᵇ; Snh. 111ᵇ עתיד הקב"ה להיות ע׳ וכ׳ the Lord, in the time to come, shall be a crown on the head of every righteous man (ref. to Is. XXVIII, 5); a. fr.—Pl. עֲטָרוֹת. Ab. Zar. IV, 2 ע׳ של שבלים wreaths of ears (used for idolatrous purposes); Y. ib. IV, 43ᵈ עַטְרוֹת שיבולים. Ib. ע׳ של וורד rose garlands. Sot. IX, 14 גזרו על ע׳ חתנים they forbade bridegrooms’ garlands; ע׳ כלות brides’ crowns. Ib. 49ᵇ איזהו ע׳ כלות עיר וכ׳ what brides’ crowns were forbidden? A golden representation of the city (of Jerusalem); a. fr.—Sabb. 87ᵇ אותו יום נטל עשר ע׳ that day carried off ten distinctions. e.g. Proverbs 14:24
- 3. a) brickwork of an oven. Kel. V, 3 עטרת כירה, v. טִירָה.—b) moulding, sill, cornice.—Pl. as ab. Ohol. XIV, 1. Midd. III, 8.—c) corona of the membrum virile. Yeb. 55ᵇ, a. e., v. הַכְנָסָה.—d) the ring around the teat of a woman, as a symptom of puberty. Nidd. 47ᵃ; 52ᵇ עד שתקיף הע׳ until a ring is formed around &c.; Tosef. ib. VI, 4 משתקיף הע׳ (not משיקיף); ib. 5; a. e.
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 13 distinct written forms H5850 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| עֲטֶ֣רֶת | Noun, Common, Feminine, Singular, Construct | Job 19:9 | 7 |
| וַ/עֲטֶ֥רֶת | Noun, Common, Feminine, Singular, Construct | Ezekiel 16:12 | 2 |
| עֲטֶ֖רֶת | Noun, Common, Feminine, Singular, Construct | Jeremiah 13:18 | 2 |
| עֲטֶ֥רֶת | Noun, Common, Feminine, Singular, Construct | Isaiah 28:3 | 2 |
| עֲטֶֽרֶת | Noun, Common, Feminine, Singular, Construct | 1 Chronicles 20:2 | 2 |
| בָּ/עֲטָרָ֗ה | Noun, Common, Feminine, Singular, Absolute | Song of Solomon 3:11 | 1 |
| הָֽ/עֲטָרָ֑ה | Noun, Common, Feminine, Singular, Absolute | Ezekiel 21:26 | 1 |
| וְ/הָ/עֲטָרֹ֗ת | Noun, Common, Feminine, Plural, Absolute | Zechariah 6:14 | 1 |
| וַ/עֲטֶ֤רֶת | Noun, Common, Feminine, Singular, Construct | Esther 8:15 | 1 |
| לַ/עֲטֶ֣רֶת | Noun, Common, Feminine, Singular, Construct | Isaiah 28:5 | 1 |
| עֲטֶ֤רֶת | Noun, Common, Feminine, Singular, Construct | Isaiah 28:1 | 1 |
| עֲטָר֑וֹת | Noun, Common, Feminine, Plural, Absolute | Zechariah 6:11 | 1 |
| עֲטָר֣וֹת | Noun, Common, Feminine, Plural, Absolute | Job 31:36 | 1 |
Same root — word family
Other BDB entries built from the same root as H5850, 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
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 → 2 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 22 verses that also exist in the Greek Old Testament (Septuagint), out of the 23 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
- 2 Samuel 12:30
- 1 Chronicles 20:2
- Esther 8:15
- Job 19:9
- Psalms 21:3
- Proverbs 4:9
- Song of Solomon 3:11
- Isaiah 28:1
- Jeremiah 13:18
- Lamentations 5:16
- Ezekiel 16:12
- Zechariah 6:11
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.
