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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 twelfth year of King Xerxes, in the first month, the month of Nisan, the pur (that is, the lot) was cast in the presence of Haman to select a day and month. And the lot fell on[fn] the twelfth month, the month of Adar.

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Unchecked Copy Box Est 3:13

Unchecked Copy BoxEst 3:13 - Dispatches were sent by couriers to all the king’s provinces with the order to destroy, kill and annihilate all the Jews—young and old, women and children—on a single day, the thirteenth day of the twelfth month, the month of Adar, and to plunder their goods.

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Unchecked Copy Box Est 8:12

Unchecked Copy BoxEst 8:12 - The day appointed for the Jews to do this in all the provinces of King Xerxes was the thirteenth day of the twelfth month, the month of Adar.

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Unchecked Copy Box Est 9:1

Unchecked Copy BoxEst 9:1 - On the thirteenth day of the twelfth month, the month of Adar, the edict commanded by the king was to be carried out. On this day the enemies of the Jews had hoped to overpower them, but now the tables were turned and the Jews got the upper hand over those who hated them.

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Unchecked Copy Box Est 9:15

Unchecked Copy BoxEst 9:15 - The Jews in Susa came together on the fourteenth day of the month of Adar, and they put to death in Susa three hundred men, but they did not lay their hands on the plunder.

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Unchecked Copy Box Est 9:17

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

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Unchecked Copy Box Est 9:19

Unchecked Copy BoxEst 9:19 - That is why rural Jews—those living in villages—observe the fourteenth of the month of Adar as a day of joy and feasting, a day for giving presents to each other.

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Unchecked Copy Box Est 9:21

Unchecked Copy BoxEst 9:21 - to have them celebrate annually the fourteenth and fifteenth days of the month of Adar
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