Be dark
קָדַרStrong’s H6937qadar (qa-dar)
Appears in 17 verses of the Old Testament
In short
Qadar is the Hebrew word usually translated “mourning”, “grew dark” and “mourners”. It appears in 17 verses of the Old Testament.
“And it came to pass in the mean while, that the heaven was black with clouds and wind, and there was a great rain. And Ahab rode, and went to Jezreel.”
Meaning
- To mourn, be dark(Qal) to be dark · (Hiphil) · (Hithpael) to grow dark
How it's translated
- mourning 4
- they grew dark 1
- and mourners 1
- that are dark 1
- being dark 1
- and they will be dark 1
- i am in mourning 1
- they are in mourning 1
Word-by-word English from the STEPBible tagged text.
Where it's used most
- Psalms 4
- Job 3
- Jeremiah 3
- Ezekiel 3
- Joel 2
- 1 Kings 1
7 books in all.
Explore in Scripture
- Job 5:11To set up on high those that be low; that those which mourn may be exalted to safety.
- Job 6:16Which are blackish by reason of the ice, and wherein the snow is hid:
- Job 30:28I went mourning without the sun: I stood up, and I cried in the congregation.
- Psalms 35:14I behaved myself as though he had been my friend or brother: I bowed down heavily, as one that mourneth for his mother.
- Psalms 38:6I am troubled; I am bowed down greatly; I go mourning all the day long.
- Psalms 42:9I will say unto God my rock, Why hast thou forgotten me? why go I mourning because of the oppression of the enemy?
Hebrew dictionary
קָדַר qadar · be dark
1) to mourn, be dark 1a) (Qal) to be dark 1b) (Hiphil) 1b1) to darken 1b2) to cause to mourn 1c) (Hithpael) to grow dark
From STEPBible’s Hebrew lexicon (based on Brown-Driver-Briggs).
Webster's 1828 Dictionary
How the English word “mourning” was understood when the King James Version was still the common Bible of English readers.
MOURNING, participle present
tense Grieving; lamenting; sorrowing; wearing the appearance of sorrow.
All definitions and other forms of “mourning”
MOURNING, noun
The act of sorrowing or expressing grief; lamentation; sorrow.
- The dress or customary habit worn by mourners.
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.