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# עָדַר

Biblical Hebrew

**be lacking** — 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

be lacking [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1506/lemma_3a_5e2_5b8_5d3_5b7_5e8/#m1)

### Brown–Driver–Briggs 1906

עָדַר³: vb.Niph. be lacking, fail [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1506/lemma_3a_5e2_5b8_5d3_5b7_5e8/#m2)

**The whole BDB entry:** vb.Niph. be lacking, fail (Arabic غَدِرَ remain or lag behind);— Pf., all c. לֹא, 3 ms. נֶעְדַּר לָהֶם 1 S 30:19 not anything was lacking to them; נֶעְדָּ֑ר none was lacking 2 S 17:22 Is 40:26; of י׳, Zp 3:5 he doth not fail; 3 fs. נֶעְדָּ֔רָה Is 34:16 no wild beast is lacking. Pt. f. נֶעְדֶּ֫רֶת Is 59:15 truth has become lacking. Impf. 3 mpl. לֹא יְעַדְּרוּ דָּבָ֑ר 1 K 5:7 they left nothing lacking.

Why these entries: BDB: headword, part of speech agrees, 7 of its verses cited, 0 words shared with the glosses (7 candidates); OSHB: headword, part of speech agrees, 1 words shared with the BDB entry, 0 with the glosses (7 candidates)

## Glosses

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

## In the verses

[1 Chronicles 12:34](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/1CH.12.34/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/1CH.12.34/#tree)

מִזְּבֻל֞וּן יוֹצְאֵ֣י צָבָ֗א עֹרְכֵ֧י מִלְחָמָ֛ה בְּכָל־כְּלֵ֥י מִלְחָמָ֖ה חֲמִשִּׁ֣ים אָ֑לֶף וְלַעֲדֹ֖ר בְּלֹא־לֵ֥ב וָלֵֽב׃ס

*Word for word:* of Zebulun \[those.who\].go.forth of.war \[those.who\].prepare of.battle with all weapons of.war \[were\].fifty thousand and to help with not a.heart and a.heart

*JPS 1917:* Of Zebulun, such as were able to go out in the host, that could set the battle in array, with all manner of instruments of war, fifty thousand; and that could order the battle array, and were not of double heart.

[Isaiah 59:15](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/ISA.59.15/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/ISA.59.15/#tree)

וַתְּהִ֤י הָֽאֱמֶת֙ נֶעְדֶּ֔רֶת וְסָ֥ר מֵרָ֖ע מִשְׁתּוֹלֵ֑ל וַיַּ֧רְא יְהוָ֛ה וַיֵּ֥רַע בְּעֵינָ֖יו כִּֽי־אֵ֥ין מִשְׁפָּֽט׃

*Word for word:* and it.was (the) truth missing and \[one.who\].turned.aside from evil \[was\].plundered and he.saw Yahweh and it.was.displeasing in eyes his (cmp) there.\[was\].not justice

*JPS 1917:* And truth is lacking, and he that departeth from evil maketh himself a prey. And the LORD saw it, and it displeased Him that there was no justice;

## On Mova

- [This word in the Tanakh dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/tanakh/w/lemma_3a_5e2_5b8_5d3_5b7_5e8.html) on Mova free.
- [Trees and pragmatics of its meanings](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1506/lemma_3a_5e2_5b8_5d3_5b7_5e8/): 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).