To pass on/over/away
עֲדָהStrong’s H5710adah (a-dah)
Appears in 10 verses of the Old Testament
In short
Adah is the Hebrew word usually translated “it passes by”, “deck yourself” and “removes”. It appears in 10 verses of the Old Testament.
“The lion’s whelps have not trodden it, nor the fierce lion passed by it.”
Meaning
- To pass on, pass away(P'al) · (Aphel) to take away, remove, depose
- To ornament, deck oneself
How it's translated
- it passes by 1
- deck yourself 1
- removes 1
- she adorns herself 1
- you ornament yourself 1
- you will ornament yourself 1
- and i ornamented you 1
- and you ornamented yourself 1
Word-by-word English from the STEPBible tagged text.
Where it's used most
- Ezekiel 3
- Job 2
- Jeremiah 2
- Proverbs 1
- Isaiah 1
- Hosea 1
6 books in all.
Explore in Scripture
- Job 40:10Deck thyself now with majesty and excellency; and array thyself with glory and beauty.
- Proverbs 25:20As he that taketh away a garment in cold weather, and as vinegar upon nitre, so is he that singeth songs to an heavy heart.
- Isaiah 61:10I will greatly rejoice in the LORD, my soul shall be joyful in my God; for he hath clothed me with the garments of salvation, he hath covered me with the robe of righteousness, as a bridegroom decketh himself with ornaments, and as a bride adorneth herself with her jewels.
- Jeremiah 4:30And when thou art spoiled, what wilt thou do? Though thou clothest thyself with crimson, though thou deckest thee with ornaments of gold, though thou rentest thy face with painting, in vain shalt thou make thyself fair; thy lovers will despise thee, they will seek thy life.
- Jeremiah 31:4Again I will build thee, and thou shalt be built, O virgin of Israel: thou shalt again be adorned with thy tabrets, and shalt go forth in the dances of them that make merry.
- Ezekiel 16:11I decked thee also with ornaments, and I put bracelets upon thy hands, and a chain on thy neck.
Hebrew 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
עָדָה adah · to adorn
to ornament, deck oneself
From STEPBible’s Hebrew lexicon (based on Brown-Driver-Briggs).
Webster's 1828 Dictionary
How the English word “remove” was understood when the King James Version was still the common Bible of English readers.
REMOVE, verb transitive
[Latin removeo; re and moveo, to move.]
- To cause to change place; to put from its place in any manner; as, to remove a building.“Thou shalt not remove thy neighbor's landmark” Deuteronomy 19:14
- To displace from an office.
- To take or put away in any manner; to cause to leave a person or thing; to banish or destroy; as, to remove a disease or complaint.“REMOVE sorrow from thine heart” Ecclesiastes 11:10
- To carry from one court to another; as, to remove a cause or suit by appeal.
All definitions and other forms of “remove”
- To take from the present state of being; as, to remove one by death.
REMOVE, verb intransitive
- To change place in any manner.
- To go from one place to another.
- To change the place of residence; as, to remove from New York to Philadelphia.
REMOVE, noun
- Change of place.
- Translation of one to the place of another.
- State of being removed.
- Act of moving a man in chess or other game.
- Departure; a going away.
- The act of changing place; removal.
- A step in any scale of gradation.
- Any indefinite distance; as a small or great remove
- The act of putting a horse's shoes on different feet.
- A dish to be changed while the rest of the course remains.
- Susceptibility of being removed. [Not in use.]
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 Hebrew, not from any one translation.