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# אָדַר

Biblical Hebrew · Strong's H142

**wide** — used 3 times in the Hebrew Bible. Below: its meanings with their sources, MACULA's glosses, and 2 verses word for word and in JPS 1917.

## Meaning

### OpenScriptures lexical index

wide [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1488/142/#m1)

### Brown–Driver–Briggs 1906

אָדַר: vb. wide, great high, noble [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1488/142/#m2)

**The whole BDB entry:** vb. (poet.) wide, great, (thence) high, noble (? Assyrian adâru DlW)— Pt. majestic, glorious, of י׳, נֶאְדָּר Ex 15:11; cstr. נֶאְדָּרִי v 6 (v. Di); impf. יַאְדִּיר make glorious the teaching Is 42:21 (י׳ subj.)

Why these entries: BDB: headword, part of speech agrees, 3 of its verses cited, 0 words shared with the glosses, lists its Strong's number (5 candidates); OSHB: headword, part of speech agrees, 1 words shared with the BDB entry, 0 with the glosses (5 candidates)

## Glosses

MACULA's English glosses of the word in the text, with how often each is used: \[was\] glorious (1); glorious (1); he will make \[it\] glorious (1).

## In the verses

[Isaiah 42:21](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/ISA.42.21/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/ISA.42.21/#tree)

יְהוָ֥ה חָפֵ֖ץ לְמַ֣עַן צִדְק֑וֹ יַגְדִּ֥יל תּוֹרָ֖ה וְיַאְדִּֽיר׃

*Word for word:* Yahweh he.was.pleased for.the.sake.of righteousness his he.will.make.great \[the\].law and he.will.make.\[it\].glorious

*JPS 1917:* The LORD was pleased, for His righteousness' sake, to make the teaching great and glorious.

[Exodus 15:6](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/EXO.15.6/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/EXO.15.6/#tree)

יְמִֽינְךָ֣ יְהוָ֔ה נֶאְדָּרִ֖י בַּכֹּ֑חַ יְמִֽינְךָ֥ יְהוָ֖ה תִּרְעַ֥ץ אוֹיֵֽב׃

*Word for word:* hand your.right O.Yahweh \[was\].glorious in (the) power hand your.right O.Yahweh it.shattered \[the\].enemy

*JPS 1917:* Thy right hand, O LORD, glorious in power, Thy right hand, O LORD, dasheth in pieces the enemy.

## On Mova

- [This word in the Tanakh dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/tanakh/w/142.html) on Mova free.
- [Trees and pragmatics of its meanings](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1488/142/): every English meaning parsed by Mova, with its dependency tree and frames.

Sources. The words, their counts, glosses and the word-for-word renderings: MACULA Hebrew (the Westminster Leningrad Codex; Clear Bible, CC BY 4.0). Meanings: the OpenScriptures lexical index (CC BY 4.0), Brown–Driver–Briggs 1906 and Jastrow 1903 (public domain, via Sefaria); Targum Onkelos from Sefaria (public domain). Translation: JPS 1917 (public domain, from eBible.org).