Adar
אֲדָרStrong’s H0144adar (a-dar)
Appears in 1 verse of the Old Testament
In short
Adar is the Aramaic word usually translated “adar”. It appears in 1 verse of the Old Testament.
“And this house was finished on the third day of the month Adar, which was in the sixth year of the reign of Darius the king.”
Meaning
- Aramaic of a.dar (אֲדָר "Adar" H0143)
How it's translated
- adar 1
Word-by-word English from the STEPBible tagged text.
Where it's used most
- Ezra 1
1 book in all.
Related words
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Aramaic dictionary
אֲדָר adar · Adar
Aramaic of a.dar (אֲדָר "Adar" H0143) § Adar = "glorious" twelfth month, corresponding to modern March or April
From STEPBible’s Hebrew lexicon (based on Brown-Driver-Briggs).
Webster's 1828 Dictionary
How the English word “adar” was understood when the King James Version was still the common Bible of English readers.
A'DAR, noun
a Hebrew month, answering to the latter part of February, and the beginning of March, the 12th of the sacred and 6th of the civil year; so named to become glorious, from the exuberance of vegetation, in that month, in Egypt and Palestine.
Noah Webster, An American Dictionary of the English Language (1828). Verse references are checked against the KJV. Read the full entry.
Verses are from the King James Version. Word meanings come from the original Aramaic, not from any one translation.