To pass on/over/away
עֲדָהStrong’s H5709adah (a-dah)
Appears in 9 verses of the Old Testament
In short
Adah is the Aramaic word usually translated “it will pass away”, “removed” and “removing”. It appears in 9 verses of the Old Testament.
“And he changeth the times and the seasons: he removeth kings, and setteth up kings: he giveth wisdom unto the wise, and knowledge to them that know understanding:”
Meaning
- To pass on, pass away(P'al) · (Aphel) to take away, remove, depose
How it's translated
- it will pass away 3
- they removed 2
- removing 1
- it had touched 1
- it has passed away 1
- they will remove 1
Word-by-word English from the STEPBible tagged text.
Where it's used most
- Daniel 9
1 book in all.
Explore in Scripture
- Daniel 3:27In contextAnd the princes, governors, and captains, and the king’s counsellors, being gathered together, saw these men, upon whose bodies the fire had no power, nor was an hair of their head singed, neither were their coats changed, nor the smell of fire had passed on them.
- Daniel 4:31In contextWhile the word was in the king’s mouth, there fell a voice from heaven, saying, O king Nebuchadnezzar, to thee it is spoken; The kingdom is departed from thee.
- Daniel 5:20In contextBut when his heart was lifted up, and his mind hardened in pride, he was deposed from his kingly throne, and they took his glory from him:
- Daniel 6:8In contextNow, O king, establish the decree, and sign the writing, that it be not changed, according to the law of the Medes and Persians, which altereth not.
- Daniel 6:12In contextThen they came near, and spake before the king concerning the king’s decree; Hast thou not signed a decree, that every man that shall ask a petition of any God or man within thirty days, save of thee, O king, shall be cast into the den of lions? The king answered and said, The thing is true, according to the law of the Medes and Persians, which altereth not.
- Daniel 7:12In contextAs concerning the rest of the beasts, they had their dominion taken away: yet their lives were prolonged for a season and time.
Aramaic dictionary
עֲדָה adah · to pass on/over/away
1) to pass on, pass away 1a)(P'al) 1a1) to pass on, pass over 1a2) to pass away 1b) (Aphel) to take away, remove, depose
From STEPBible’s Hebrew lexicon (based on Brown-Driver-Briggs).
Webster's 1828 Dictionary
How the English word “removed” was understood when the King James Version was still the common Bible of English readers.
REMOVED, participle passive
- Changed in place; carried to a distance; displaced from office; placed far off.
- adjective Remote; separate from others.
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.