Kedar
קֵדָרStrong’s H6938qedar (qe-dar)
Appears in 11 verses of the Old Testament
In short
Qedar is the Hebrew word usually translated “kedar”. It appears in 11 verses of the Old Testament.
“And these are the names of the sons of Ishmael, by their names, according to their generations: the firstborn of Ishmael, Nebajoth; and Kedar, and Adbeel, and Mibsam,”
Meaning
- A son of Ishmael
- The descendants of Kedar
How it's translated
- kedar 8
- and kedar 3
- of kedar 1
Word-by-word English from the STEPBible tagged text.
Where it's used most
- Isaiah 4
- Jeremiah 2
- Genesis 1
- 1 Chronicles 1
- Psalms 1
- Song of Solomon 1
7 books in all.
Explore in Scripture
- 1 Chronicles 1:29These are their generations: The firstborn of Ishmael, Nebaioth; then Kedar, and Adbeel, and Mibsam,
- Psalms 120:5Woe is me, that I sojourn in Mesech, that I dwell in the tents of Kedar!
- Song of Solomon 1:5I am black, but comely, O ye daughters of Jerusalem, as the tents of Kedar, as the curtains of Solomon.
- Isaiah 21:16For thus hath the LORD said unto me, Within a year, according to the years of an hireling, and all the glory of Kedar shall fail:
- Isaiah 21:17And the residue of the number of archers, the mighty men of the children of Kedar, shall be diminished: for the LORD God of Israel hath spoken it.
- Isaiah 42:11Let the wilderness and the cities thereof lift up their voice, the villages that Kedar doth inhabit: let the inhabitants of the rock sing, let them shout from the top of the mountains.
Hebrew dictionary
קֵדָר qedar · Kedar
A man of the Arabs living at the time of the Patriarchs, first mentioned at Gen.25.13; son of: Ishmael (H3458); brother of: Nebaioth (H5032), Adbeel (H0110), Mibsam (H4017), Mishma (H4927), Dumah (H1746), Massa (H4854), Hadad (H2301), Tema (H8485), Jetur (H3195), Naphish (H5305), Kedemah (H6929) and Mahalath (H4258) § Kedar = "dark" 1) a son of Ishmael n pr people 2) the descendants of Kedar
From STEPBible’s Hebrew lexicon (based on Brown-Driver-Briggs).
Verses are from the King James Version. Word meanings come from the original Hebrew, not from any one translation.