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Lexicon :: Strong's H143 - 'ăḏār

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אֲדָר
Transliteration
'ăḏār
Pronunciation
ad-awr'
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Part of Speech
proper noun
Root Word (Etymology)
Probably of foreign derivation
Strong’s Definitions

אֲדָר ʼĂdâr, ad-awr'; probably of foreign derivation; perhaps meaning fire; Adar, the 12th Hebrew month:—Adar.

KJV Translation Count — Total: 8x

The KJV translates Strong's H143 in the following manner: Adar (8x).

KJV Translation Count — Total: 8x
The KJV translates Strong's H143 in the following manner: Adar (8x).

  1. Adar = "glorious"

    1. twelfth month, corresponding to modern March-April

Strong’s Definitions [?](Strong’s Definitions Legend)
אֲדָר ʼĂdâr, ad-awr'; probably of foreign derivation; perhaps meaning fire; Adar, the 12th Hebrew month:—Adar.
STRONGS H143: Abbreviations
† אֲדָר proper noun [masculine] 12th (Babylonian) month＝Feb.—Mar. (late Hebrew loan-word,＝Babylonian A(d)-daru see DlWp. 188, compare Al 3 93, meaning dubious perhaps adâru, be darkened, eclipsed, but see DlW p. 190) Esther 3:7, 13; Esther 8:12; Esther 9:1, 15, 17, 19, 21; compare Palmyrene, Nabataean אדר Vog8 EutNab 24.

See related Aramaic BDB entry H144.
Brown-Driver-Briggs Hebrew and English Lexicon, Unabridged, Electronic Database.
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BLB Scripture Index of Brown-Driver-Briggs

Esther

3:7; 3:12; 8:12; 9:1; 9:15; 9:17; 9:19; 9:21

H143

Word / Phrase / Strong's Search

Strong's Number H143 matches the Hebrew אֲדָר ('ăḏār),
which occurs 8 times in 8 verses in the WLC Hebrew.

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Unchecked Copy BoxEst 3:7

Unchecked Copy BoxEst 3:7 - And he made a decree in the twelfth year of the reign of Artaxerxes, and cast lots daily and monthly, to slay in one day the race of Mardochæus: and the lot fell on the fourteenth day of the month which is Adar.

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Unchecked Copy BoxEst 3:13

Unchecked Copy BoxEst 3:13 - And the message was sent by posts throughout the kingdom of Artaxerxes, to destroy utterly the race of the Jews on the first day of the twelfth month, which is Adar, and to plunder their goods.

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Unchecked Copy BoxEst 8:12

Unchecked Copy BoxEst 8:12 - on one day in all the kingdom of Artaxerxes, on the thirteenth day of the twelfth month, which is Adar.

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Unchecked Copy BoxEst 9:1

Unchecked Copy BoxEst 9:1 - For in the twelfth month, on the thirteenth day of the month which is Adar, the letters written by the king arrived.

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Unchecked Copy BoxEst 9:15

Unchecked Copy BoxEst 9:15 - And the Jews assembled in Susa on the fourteenth day of Adar, and slew three hundred men, but plundered no property.

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Unchecked Copy BoxEst 9:17

Unchecked Copy BoxEst 9:17 - And they rested on the fourteenth of the same month, and kept it as a day of rest with joy and gladness.

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Unchecked Copy BoxEst 9:19

Unchecked Copy BoxEst 9:19 - On this account then it is that the Jews dispersed in every foreign land keep the fourteenth of Adar as a holy day with joy, sending portions each to his neighbour.

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Unchecked Copy BoxEst 9:21

Unchecked Copy BoxEst 9:21 - to establish these as joyful days, and to keep the fourteenth and fifteenth of Adar;
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