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# קֵדָר

Biblical Hebrew · Strong's H6938

**Kedar** — used 12 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

Kedar [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1511/6938/#m1)

### Brown–Driver–Briggs 1906

קֵדָר: n.pr.gent. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1511/6938/#m2)

**The whole BDB entry:** n.pr.gent. (swarthy? black-tented?); Κηδαρ: tribe of nomads in Arabic desert Is 21:16; 42:11 (c. vb. fem.), 60:7, Je 2:10; 49:28(×2); Ez 27:21; בְּנֵי־ק׳ Is 21:17; אָהֳלֵי ק׳ ψ 120:5 Ct 1:5 (made of black goat-skins JacobBeduinenleben (2), 41 or black woven stuff DoughtyArab. Des. i. 224 f.; sim. of swarthy hue). ancestor of 1, son of Ishmael, Gn 25:13 = 1 Ch 1:29.—Cf. Assyrian Ḳidru COT Gn 25:13, PlinNH v. 11 (12) Cedrei; also Sab. tribename קדר Hal623 (cf. DHMZMG xxxvii (1883), 14).

Why these entries: BDB: headword, part of speech agrees, 11 of its verses cited, 0 words shared with the glosses, lists its Strong's number (2 candidates); OSHB: headword, part of speech agrees, 0 words shared with the BDB entry, 1 with the glosses (2 candidates)

## Glosses

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

## In the verses

[Psalms 120:5](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/PSA.120.5/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/PSA.120.5/#tree)

אֽוֹיָה־לִ֭י כִּי־גַ֣רְתִּי מֶ֑שֶׁךְ שָׁ֝כַ֗נְתִּי עִֽם־אָהֳלֵ֥י קֵדָֽר׃

*Word for word:* woe! to me (dm) I.have.sojourned Meshech I.have.dwelt with the.tents of.Kedar

*JPS 1917:* Woe is me, that I sojourn with Meshech, that I dwell beside the tents of Kedar!

[1 Chronicles 1:29](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/1CH.1.29/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/1CH.1.29/#tree)

אֵ֖לֶּה תֹּלְדוֹתָ֑ם בְּכ֤וֹר יִשְׁמָעֵאל֙ נְבָי֔וֹת וְקֵדָ֥ר וְאַדְבְּאֵ֖ל וּמִבְשָֽׂם׃

*Word for word:* these generations \[were\].their the.firstborn of.Ishmael \[was\].Nebaioth and Kedar and Adbeel and Mibsam

*JPS 1917:* These are their generations: the first-born of Ishmael, Nebaioth; then Kedar, and Adbeel, and Mibsam,

## On Mova

- [This word in the Tanakh dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/tanakh/w/6938.html) on Mova free.
- [Trees and pragmatics of its meanings](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1511/6938/): 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).