To help
עָדַרStrong’s H5737adar (a-dar)
Appears in 11 verses of the Old Testament
In short
Adar is the Hebrew word usually translated “it was missing”, “missing” and “left lacking”. It appears in 11 verses of the Old Testament.
“And there was nothing lacking to them, neither small nor great, neither sons nor daughters, neither spoil, nor any thing that they had taken to them: David recovered all.”
Meaning
- To help(Qal) to help
- To hoe(Niphal) to be hoed
- To be lacking, fail(Niphal) · (Piel) to leave lacking
How it's translated
- it was missing 1
- missing 1
- they left lacking 1
- and to help 1
- helpers of 1
- it will be hoed 1
- they were hoed 1
- it will be missing 1
Word-by-word English from the STEPBible tagged text.
Where it's used most
- Isaiah 5
- 1 Chronicles 2
- 1 Samuel 1
- 2 Samuel 1
- 1 Kings 1
- Zephaniah 1
6 books in all.
Explore in Scripture
- 2 Samuel 17:22Then David arose, and all the people that were with him, and they passed over Jordan: by the morning light there lacked not one of them that was not gone over Jordan.
- 1 Kings 4:27And those officers provided victual for king Solomon, and for all that came unto king Solomon’s table, every man in his month: they lacked nothing.
- 1 Chronicles 12:33Of Zebulun, such as went forth to battle, expert in war, with all instruments of war, fifty thousand, which could keep rank: they were not of double heart.
- 1 Chronicles 12:38All these men of war, that could keep rank, came with a perfect heart to Hebron, to make David king over all Israel: and all the rest also of Israel were of one heart to make David king.
- Isaiah 5:6And I will lay it waste: it shall not be pruned, nor digged; but there shall come up briers and thorns: I will also command the clouds that they rain no rain upon it.
- Isaiah 7:25And on all hills that shall be digged with the mattock, there shall not come thither the fear of briers and thorns: but it shall be for the sending forth of oxen, and for the treading of lesser cattle.
Hebrew dictionary
עָדַר adar · to help
1) to help 1a) (Qal) to help
עָדַר adar · to hoe
1) to hoe 1a) (Niphal) to be hoed
עָדַר adar · to lack
1) to be lacking, fail 1a)(Niphal) 1b1) to be lacking 1b1) to leave lacking 1b) (Piel) to leave lacking
From STEPBible’s Hebrew lexicon (based on Brown-Driver-Briggs).
Webster's 1828 Dictionary
How the English word “help” was understood when the King James Version was still the common Bible of English readers.
HELP, verb transitive
A regular verb; the old past tense and participle holp and holpen being obsolete.
- To aid; to assist; to lend strength or means towards effecting a purpose; as, to help a man in his work; to help another in raising a building; to help one to pay his debts; to help the memory or the understanding.
- To assist; to succor; to lend means of deliverance; as, to help one in distress; to help one out of prison.
- To relieve; to cure, or to mitigate pain or disease.
- To remedy; to change for the better.
All definitions and other forms of “help”
- To prevent; to hinder.
- To forbear; to avoid.
HELP, verb intransitive
To lend aid; to contribute strength or means.
HELP, noun
Aid; assistance; strength or means furnished towards promoting an object, or deliverance from difficulty or distress.
- “Give us help from trouble; for vain is the help of man” Psalms 60:11
- That which gives assistance; he or that which contributes to advance a purpose.“God is a very present help in time of trouble” Psalms 46:1
- Remedy; relief.
- A hired man or woman; a servant.
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.