אֲתַר
track
Full lexicon entry — Brown-Driver-Briggs (BDB)
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Where this word appears
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Grammar key — what these labels mean
Part of speech
- Noun
- A naming word — a person, place, thing, or idea.
- Preposition
- A relational word (e.g. “in,” “to,” “from”) governing a noun.
Noun type
- Common
- A common noun — a general class of person, place, or thing (“king,” “city,” “water”), not a specific name.
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).
Gender
- Masculine
- Grammatically masculine.
Number
- Singular
- One.
1 verse where H870 appears in the Absolute state in the Book of Ezra. Filtered view — show all forms. 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
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.
אתר — transliterated ʼăthar — is a Hebrew noun carrying the sense “track.” More than half of its appearances fall in Ezra. The Hebrew Bible uses it across 8 verses — uncommon. It first appears in Ezra 5:15. Related forms include אתרים and יאתרי. 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 H870 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.
- 2 / 39
- OT books
- The word appears in 2 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 →
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
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: Place 4×, After 3×
- American Standard Version: Place 4×, After 3×
- Berean Standard Bible: Original site 2×
- unfoldingWord Literal Text: Place 4×, After 2×
King James Version Public Domain
Renders H870 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.
American Standard Version Public Domain
Renders H870 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 H870 across 7 tagged occurrences — most commonly:
Plus 5 renderings that appear only once — usually multi-word phrases or single function words the recovered tagging swept in, not distinct renderings. Not rendered by a distinct English word in 1 further occurrence.
unfoldingWord Literal Text CC BY-SA 4.0
Renders H870 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.
Senses in BDB
The 1 sense 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.
- track, place
Word origin
Derived from אתרים (ʼĂthârîym) (H871) — mountain pass.
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.
אָתַר
- c. (= אתאר, denom. of אֲתָא, corresp. to h. מָקוֹם, fr. קוּם) place, town. Targ. Gen. XXII, 3; a. fr.—Ber. 63ᵃ. Gen. R. s. 39 (prov.) מבית לבית וכ׳ removal from house to house (costs) a shirt;—from town to town, a life. Ex. R. s. 45, end אַתְרִי טפלה לי וכ׳ my (the Lord’s) place is an accidental attribute to me, but I am not accidental to my place; cmp. מָקוֹם.—Ned. 49ᵃ, a. fr. מר כי אַתְרֵיה וכ׳ the one follows the custom of his place and the other that of his. B. Bath. 124ᵇ לאתרין to our place.—Pl. אַתְרִין, אַתְרַיָּא. Targ. Jud. XIX, 13; a. fr.—Y. Ber. II, 4ᶜ מן א׳ סגין from many places (passages, authorities); Pesik. R. s. 22 היגיס אחריו (corr. acc.)—Denom. אַתְרוּתָא local custom. Pl. אֲתַרְוָותָא. Gitt. 89ᵃ א׳ נינהו the customs of the places are divided.—בַּאֲתַר, בְּאַתְרֵי in place of, instead; in consequence of, because of, for (corresp to h. תַּחַת). Targ. II Chr. VI, 10; a. fr.—Targ. Job VIII, 4; a. fr.—V. בָּתַר.—על אתר (contr. אַלְתַּר q. v.) on the spot, presently. Y. Ber. I, 3ᶜ. Ib. II, 4ᵇ, 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 7 distinct written forms H870 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| אַתְרֵֽ/הּ | Noun, Common, Masculine, Singular, Construct | Ezra 5:15 | 2 |
| אֲתַ֖ר | Noun, Common, Masculine, Singular, Absolute | Daniel 2:35 | 1 |
| אֲתַר֙ | Noun, Common, Masculine, Singular, Absolute | Ezra 6:3 | 1 |
| בָּאתַ֣ר | Preposition | Daniel 7:7 | 1 |
| בָּאתַ֨ר | Preposition | Daniel 7:6 | 1 |
| וּ/בָתְרָ֗/ךְ | Noun, Common, Masculine, Singular, Construct | Daniel 2:39 | 1 |
| לְ/אַתְרֵ֔/הּ | Noun, Common, Masculine, Singular, Construct | Ezra 6:5 | 1 |
Same root — word family
Other BDB entries built from the same root as H870, 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 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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