אֲדָר
a.dar
Adar
Lexicon Entry
Lexicon data from STEPBible TIPNR, Tyndale House, Cambridge. Licensed under CC BY 4.0.
What Original Readers Understood
ExploredThe Hebrew word "אֲדָר" (a.dar) is a proper noun that represents a person's name, appearing eight times in the Bible. Without further context, we cannot determine the specific identity or characteristics of this individual, as the name itself does not convey additional meaning. Given its classification as a person's name, the word "a.dar" likely holds significance as a unique identifier, distinguishing this individual from others in the narrative. It may serve to personalize or humanize a particular event, action, or relationship within the biblical story. The fact that this name appears eight times in the Bible suggests a moderate level of importance or prominence in the narrative, but without additional information, the precise nature of this significance remains unclear.
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Occurrences in Scripture
8 total occurrences across the text
In the first month, which is the month Nisan, in the twelfth year of King Ahasuerus, they cast Pur, that is, the lot, before Haman from day to day, and from month to month, and chose the twelfth month, which is the month Adar.
Esther 3:13Letters were sent by couriers into all the king’s provinces, to destroy, to kill, and to cause to perish, all Jews, both young and old, little children and women, in one day, even on the thirteenth day of the twelfth month, which is the month Adar, and to plunder their possessions.
Esther 8:12on one day in all the provinces of King Ahasuerus, on the thirteenth day of the twelfth month, which is the month Adar.
Esther 9:1Now in the twelfth month, which is the month Adar, on the thirteenth day of the month, when the king’s commandment and his decree came near to be put in execution, on the day that the enemies of the Jews hoped to conquer them, (but it was turned out the opposite happened, that the Jews conquered those who hated them),
Esther 9:15The Jews who were in Susa gathered themselves together on the fourteenth day also of the month Adar, and killed three hundred men in Susa; but they didn’t lay their hand on the plunder.
Esther 9:17This was done on the thirteenth day of the month Adar; and on the fourteenth day of that month they rested and made it a day of feasting and gladness.
Esther 9:19Therefore the Jews of the villages, who live in the unwalled towns, make the fourteenth day of the month Adar a day of gladness and feasting, a good day, and a day of sending presents of food to one another.
Esther 9:21to enjoin them that they should keep the fourteenth and fifteenth days of the month Adar yearly,