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# עָדַף

Biblical Hebrew · Strong's H5736

**remain over** — used 9 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

remain over [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1506/5736/#m1)

### Brown–Driver–Briggs 1906

עָדַף: vb. remain over, be in excess [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1506/5736/#m2)

**The whole BDB entry:** vb. remain over, be in excess, syn. of סרח q.v., only PH (NH id., Aramaic עָדִיף superior (to); Arabic غَدَفَ be profuse, iv. let down veil, or curtain, etc.; غَدَفٌ plentifulness);— Pt. סֶרַח הָעֹדֵף Ex 26:12 the surplus (of curtains) that remains over, so f. הָעֹדֶפֶת v 12, and הָעֹדֵף as subst. v 13 the excess in (ב) length; הָעֹדֵף = the surplus of food Ex 16:23, of price of field Lv 25:27 (P); הָעֹדְפִים עַל־ those over and above, Nu 3:46, 49, cf. v 48 (no עַל־). Pf. 3 ms. הֶעְדִּיף Ex 16:18 have a surplus (of manna; opp. הֶחְסִיר).

Why these entries: BDB: headword, part of speech agrees, 8 of its verses cited, 1 words shared with the glosses, lists its Strong's number (1 candidates); OSHB: headword, part of speech agrees, 2 words shared with the BDB entry, 0 with the glosses (1 candidates)

## Glosses

MACULA's English glosses of the word in the text, with how often each is used: surplus (4); \[those who are\] in excess (1); are\] in excess (1).

## In the verses

[Numbers 3:48](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/NUM.3.48/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/NUM.3.48/#tree)

וְנָתַתָּ֣ה הַכֶּ֔סֶף לְאַהֲרֹ֖ן וּלְבָנָ֑יו פְּדוּיֵ֕י הָעֹדְפִ֖ים בָּהֶֽם׃

*Word for word:* and you.will.give the money to Aaron and to sons his the.ransom(s) of \[those.who.are\].in.excess among them

*JPS 1917:* And thou shalt give the money wherewith they that remain over of them are redeemed unto Aaron and to his sons.'

[Numbers 3:49](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/NUM.3.49/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/NUM.3.49/#tree)

וַיִּקַּ֣ח מֹשֶׁ֔ה אֵ֖ת כֶּ֣סֶף הַפִּדְי֑וֹם מֵאֵת֙ הָעֹ֣דְפִ֔ים עַ֖ל פְּדוּיֵ֥י הַלְוִיִּֽם׃

*Word for word:* and he.took Moses (et) the.money of the.ransom from with \[those who.were\].in.excess to the.ransom(s) of the.Levites

*JPS 1917:* And Moses took the redemption-money from them that were over and above them that were redeemed by the Levites;

## On Mova

- [This word in the Tanakh dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/tanakh/w/5736.html) on Mova free.
- [Trees and pragmatics of its meanings](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1506/5736/): 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).