Place
אֲתַרStrong’s H0870atar (a-tar)
Appears in 8 verses of the Old Testament
In short
Atar is the Aramaic word usually translated “place its”, “after” and “place”. It appears in 8 verses of the Old Testament.
“Then was the iron, the clay, the brass, the silver, and the gold, broken to pieces together, and became like the chaff of the summer threshingfloors; and the wind carried them away, that no place was found for them: and the stone that smote the image became a great mountain, and filled the whole earth.”
Meaning
- Track, place
How it's translated
- place its 2
- after 2
- a place 1
- to place its 1
- place 1
- and after you 1
Word-by-word English from the STEPBible tagged text.
Where it's used most
- Ezra 4
- Daniel 4
2 books in all.
Explore in Scripture
- Daniel 2:39In contextAnd after thee shall arise another kingdom inferior to thee, and another third kingdom of brass, which shall bear rule over all the earth.
- Daniel 7:6In contextAfter this I beheld, and lo another, like a leopard, which had upon the back of it four wings of a fowl; the beast had also four heads; and dominion was given to it.
- Daniel 7:7In contextAfter this I saw in the night visions, and behold a fourth beast, dreadful and terrible, and strong exceedingly; and it had great iron teeth: it devoured and brake in pieces, and stamped the residue with the feet of it: and it was diverse from all the beasts that were before it; and it had ten horns.
- Ezra 5:15And said unto him, Take these vessels, go, carry them into the temple that is in Jerusalem, and let the house of God be builded in his place.
- Ezra 6:3In the first year of Cyrus the king the same Cyrus the king made a decree concerning the house of God at Jerusalem, Let the house be builded, the place where they offered sacrifices, and let the foundations thereof be strongly laid; the height thereof threescore cubits, and the breadth thereof threescore cubits;
- Ezra 6:5And also let the golden and silver vessels of the house of God, which Nebuchadnezzar took forth out of the temple which is at Jerusalem, and brought unto Babylon, be restored, and brought again unto the temple which is at Jerusalem, every one to his place, and place them in the house of God.
Aramaic dictionary
אֲתַר atar · place
track, place
From STEPBible’s Hebrew lexicon (based on Brown-Driver-Briggs).
Webster's 1828 Dictionary
How the English word “place” was understood when the King James Version was still the common Bible of English readers.
PLACE, noun
- A particular portion of space of indefinite extent, occupied or intended to be occupied by any person or thing, and considered as the space where a person or thing does or may rest or has rested, as distinct from space in general.“Look from the place where thou art” Genesis 13:14“The place where thou standest is holy ground” Exodus 3:5“David's place was empty” 1 Samuel 20:25
- Any portion of space, as distinct from space in general.“Enlargement and deliverance shall arise to the Jews from another place” Esther 4:14
- Local existence.“From whose face the earth and the heaven fled away, and there was found no place for them” Revelation 20:11
- Separate room or apartment.
All definitions and other forms of “place”
- Seat; residence; mansion.“The Romans shall come and take away both our place and nation” John 11:48
- A portion or passage of writing or of a book.“The place of the Scripture which he read was this” Acts 8:32
- Point or degree in order of proceeding; as in the first place; in the second place; in the last place Hence,
- Rank; order of priority, dignity or importance.
- Office, employment; official station.
- Ground; room.
- Station in life; calling; occupation; condition.
- A city, a town; a village. Genesis 18:24
- In military affairs, a fortified town or post; a fortress; a fort; as a strong place; a place easily defended.
- A country; a kingdom.
- Space in general.
- Room; stead; with the sense of substitution.
- Room; kind reception.“My word hath no place in you” John 8:37
- The place of the moon, in astronomy, is the part of its orbit where it is found at any given time.
- To take the precedence or priority.
- To have actual existence.
- To give room; to give advantage; to yield to the influence of; to listen to.“Neither give place to the devil” Ephesians 4:27
- To give way; to yield to and suffer to pass away.
PLACE, verb transitive
To put or set in a particular part of space, or in a particular part of the earth, or in something on its surface; to locate; as, to place a house by the side of a stream; to place a book on a shelf; to place a body of cavalry on each flank of any army.
- To appoint, set, induct or establish in an office.“Thou shalt provide out of all the people able men, such as fear God, men of truth, hating covetousness; and place such over them to be rulers of thousands, etc” Exodus 18:21
- To put or set in any particular rank, state or condition.
- To set; to fix; as, to place one's affections on an object; to place confidence in a friend.
- To put; to invest; as, to place money in the funds or in a bank.
- To put out at interest; to lend; as, to place money in good hands or in good security.
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.