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# אֲדָר

Biblical Hebrew · Strong's H143

**Adar** — used 8 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

Adar [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1488/143/#m1)

### Brown–Driver–Briggs 1906

אֲדָר: n.pr. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1488/143/#m2)

**The whole BDB entry:** 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.

Why these entries: BDB: headword, part of speech agrees, 8 of its verses cited, 0 words shared with the glosses, lists its Strong's number (5 candidates); OSHB: headword, part of speech agrees, 0 words shared with the BDB entry, 1 with the glosses (5 candidates)

## Glosses

MACULA's English glosses of the word in the text, with how often each is used: of Adar (6); Adar (2).

## In the verses

[Esther 8:12](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/EST.8.12/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/EST.8.12/#tree)

בְּי֣וֹם אֶחָ֔ד בְּכָל־מְדִינ֖וֹת הַמֶּ֣לֶךְ אֲחַשְׁוֵר֑וֹשׁ בִּשְׁלוֹשָׁ֥ה עָשָׂ֛ר לְחֹ֥דֶשׁ שְׁנֵים־עָשָׂ֖ר הוּא־חֹ֥דֶשׁ אֲדָֽר׃

*Word for word:* on a.day one in all the.provinces of the.king Ahasuerus on.\[day\] thir- teen of month two.plus ten that \[is\].the.month of.Adar

*JPS 1917:* upon one day in all the provinces of king Ahasuerus, namely, upon the thirteenth day of the twelfth month, which is the month Adar.

[Esther 9:17](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/EST.9.17/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/EST.9.17/#tree)

בְּיוֹם־שְׁלֹשָׁ֥ה עָשָׂ֖ר לְחֹ֣דֶשׁ אֲדָ֑ר וְנ֗וֹחַ בְּאַרְבָּעָ֤ה עָשָׂר֙ בּ֔וֹ וְעָשֹׂ֣ה אֹת֔וֹ י֖וֹם מִשְׁתֶּ֥ה וְשִׂמְחָֽה׃

*Word for word:* on day thir- teen of the.month of.Adar and they.rested on.\[day\] four- teen in it and they.made it a.day of.feast and joy

*JPS 1917:* on the thirteenth day of the month Adar, and on the fourteenth day of the same they rested, and made it a day of feasting and gladness.

## On Mova

- [This word in the Tanakh dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/tanakh/w/143.html) on Mova free.
- [Trees and pragmatics of its meanings](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1488/143/): 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).