אַדֶּ֫רֶת
ad.de.ret
clothing
Lexicon Entry
Lexicon data from STEPBible TIPNR, Tyndale House, Cambridge. Licensed under CC BY 4.0.
What Original Readers Understood
Supported# Aderet: A Garment of Distinction in Biblical Hebrew The Hebrew word *aderet* (אַדֶּ֫רֶת) refers to a type of clothing, though the lexicon data provided does not specify its exact cut or construction. With twelve occurrences in the Bible, it appears with sufficient frequency to suggest it held particular importance in ancient Israelite material culture. The word's presence across multiple biblical texts indicates it was a recognized item of apparel worth naming distinctly rather than using a generic term for clothing. The limited lexical information available prevents detailed specification of the garment's precise nature, its social class associations, or its specific functions. However, the dedicated lemma status—meaning Hebrew scribes treated it as a distinct word rather than a variant of other clothing terminology—suggests *aderet* occupied a particular niche in the vocabulary of dress. Whether it denoted formal wear, protective covering, or garments associated with specific social roles remains unclear from the data provided alone. Its twelve biblical occurrences represent a modest but consistent presence that warrants attention from those studying daily life and material goods in ancient Israel.
Source data & methodology
Occurrences in Scripture
12 total occurrences across the text
It was planted in a good soil by many waters, that it might produce branches, and that it might bear fruit, that it might be a good vine.” ’
Jonah 3:6The news reached the king of Nineveh, and he arose from his throne, and took off his royal robe, covered himself with sackcloth, and sat in ashes.
Zechariah 11:3A voice of the wailing of the shepherds! For their glory is destroyed: a voice of the roaring of young lions! For the pride of the Jordan is ruined.
Zechariah 13:4It will happen in that day, that the prophets will each be ashamed of his vision, when he prophesies; neither will they wear a hairy mantle to deceive:
Genesis 25:25The first came out red all over, like a hairy garment. They named him Esau.
Joshua 7:21When I saw among the plunder a beautiful Babylonian robe, two hundred shekels of silver, and a wedge of gold weighing fifty shekels, then I coveted them and took them. Behold, they are hidden in the ground in the middle of my tent, with the silver under it.”
Joshua 7:24Joshua, and all Israel with him, took Achan the son of Zerah, the silver, the robe, the wedge of gold, his sons, his daughters, his cattle, his donkeys, his sheep, his tent, and all that he had; and they brought them up to the valley of Achor.
1 Kings 19:13When Elijah heard it, he wrapped his face in his mantle, went out, and stood in the entrance of the cave. Behold, a voice came to him, and said, “What are you doing here, Elijah?”
1 Kings 19:19So he departed from there, and found Elisha the son of Shaphat, who was plowing with twelve yoke of oxen before him, and he with the twelfth. Elijah went over to him, and put his mantle on him.
2 Kings 2:8Elijah took his mantle, and rolled it up, and struck the waters, and they were divided here and there, so that they both went over on dry ground.
2 Kings 2:13He also took up Elijah’s mantle that fell from him, and went back, and stood by the bank of the Jordan.
2 Kings 2:14He took Elijah’s mantle that fell from him, and struck the waters, and said, “Where is Yahweh, the God of Elijah?” When he also had struck the waters, they were divided apart, and Elisha went over.