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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

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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 Box Est 3:7

Unchecked Copy BoxEst 3:7 - In the first month, which is the month of Nisan, in the twelfth year of King Ahasuerus, they cast Pur (that is, they cast lots) before Haman day after day; and they cast it month after month till the twelfth month, which is the month of Adar.

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Unchecked Copy Box Est 3:13

Unchecked Copy BoxEst 3:13 - Letters were sent by couriers to all the king’s provinces with instruction to destroy, to kill, and to annihilate all Jews, young and old, women and children, in one day, the thirteenth day of the twelfth month, which is the month of Adar, and to plunder their goods.

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Unchecked Copy Box Est 8:12

Unchecked Copy BoxEst 8:12 - on one day throughout all the provinces of King Ahasuerus, on the thirteenth day of the twelfth month, which is the month of Adar.

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Unchecked Copy Box Est 9:1

Unchecked Copy BoxEst 9:1 - Now in the twelfth month, which is the month of Adar, on the thirteenth day of the same, when the king’s command and edict were about to be carried out, on the very day when the enemies of the Jews hoped to gain the mastery over them, the reverse occurred: the Jews gained mastery over those who hated them.

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Unchecked Copy Box Est 9:15

Unchecked Copy BoxEst 9:15 - The Jews who were in Susa gathered also on the fourteenth day of the month of Adar and they killed 300 men in Susa, but they laid no hands on the plunder.

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Unchecked Copy Box Est 9:17

Unchecked Copy BoxEst 9:17 - This was on the thirteenth day of the month of Adar, and on the fourteenth day they rested and made that a day of feasting and gladness.

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Unchecked Copy Box Est 9:19

Unchecked Copy BoxEst 9:19 - Therefore the Jews of the villages, who live in the rural towns, hold the fourteenth day of the month of Adar as a day for gladness and feasting, as a holiday, and as a day on which they send gifts of food to one another.

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Unchecked Copy Box Est 9:21

Unchecked Copy BoxEst 9:21 - obliging them to keep the fourteenth day of the month Adar and also the fifteenth day of the same, year by year,
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