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Lexicon :: Strong's H5712 - ʿēḏâ

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עֵדָה
Transliteration
ʿēḏâ
Pronunciation
ay-daw'
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Part of Speech
feminine noun
Root Word (Etymology)
From עֵד (H5707) in the original sense of fixture
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TWOT Reference: 878a

Strong’s Definitions

עֵדָה ʻêdâh, ay-daw'; feminine of H5707 in the original sense of fixture; a stated assemblage (specifically, a concourse, or generally, a family or crowd):—assembly, company, congregation, multitude, people, swarm. Compare H5713.

KJV Translation Count — Total: 149x

The KJV translates Strong's H5712 in the following manner: congregation (124x), company (13x), assembly (9x), multitude (1x), people (1x), swarm (1x).

KJV Translation Count — Total: 149x
The KJV translates Strong's H5712 in the following manner: congregation (124x), company (13x), assembly (9x), multitude (1x), people (1x), swarm (1x).

  1. congregation, gathering

Strong’s Definitions [?](Strong’s Definitions Legend)
עֵדָה ʻêdâh, ay-daw'; feminine of H5707 in the original sense of fixture; a stated assemblage (specifically, a concourse, or generally, a family or crowd):—assembly, company, congregation, multitude, people, swarm. Compare H5713.
STRONGS H5712: Abbreviations
עֵדָה 140 noun feminine congregation (properly company assembled together by appointment, or acting concertedly) — ע׳ Numbers 16:2 + 85 times; construct עֲדַת Exodus 12:3 + 52 times; suffix עֲדָתִי Job 16:7 + 9 times suffixes; —
1. עֲדַתאֵֿל Psalm 82:1 congregation of El, of company of angels ׅ || (בקרב אלהים; לְאֻמִּים ע׳ Psalm 7:8 congregation of peoples; צַדִּיקִים ע׳ Psalm 1:5 congregation of the righteous; || סוֺד יְשָׁרִים Psalm 111:1; || קהל Proverbs 5:14; כָּלעֲֿדָתִי Job 16:7 (of Job's circle of dependents); in a bad sense, מְרֵעִים ע׳ company of evil doers Psalm 22:17; עריצים ע׳ Psalm 86:14; חנף ע׳ Job 15:34; קֹרַח ע׳ company of Korah Numbers 26:9; Numbers 27:3 (P), so עֲדָתוֺ, עֲדָֽתְךָ Numbers 16:5, 6, 11, 16; Numbers 17:5 (P), and הָעֵדָה Numbers 26:10; Numbers 27:3 (P); אֲבִירָם ע׳ Psalm 106:17, compare Psalm 106:18.
2. of animals ע׳ אַבִּירִים Psalm 68:31 (figurative of nobles); דְּבֹרִים ע׳ Judges 14:8 a swarm of bees.
3. elsewhere of Israel Hosea 7:12 עֲדָתָם i.e. the whole assemblage of them; 1 Kings 8:5 (= 2 Chronicles 5:6) כל עדת ישׂ׳ of those gathered to Solomon; 2 Chronicles 12:20 העדה of assembly at Shechem; Jeremiah 6:18 (text very dubious); עֲדָתוֺ Jeremiah 30:20 of restored people; עֲדָֽתְךָ Psalm 74:2 (|| שׁבט נחלתך); elsewhere in P, except possibly Numbers 20:11 (R), in technical sense, of the company of Israel of the Exodus, the congregation (115 times), especially in the phrases יהוה ע׳ Numbers 27:17; Numbers 31:16; Joshua 22:16, 17; ישׂראל ע׳ Exodus 12:3, 6, 19, 47; Leviticus 4:13; Numbers 16:9; Numbers 32:4; Joshua 22:18, 20; בני ישׂראל ע׳ Exodus 16:1, 2, 9, 10; Exodus 17:1; Exodus 35:1, 4, 20; Leviticus 16:5; Leviticus 19:2 (H), Numbers 1:2, 53; Numbers 8:9, 20; Numbers 13:26; Numbers 14:5, 7; Numbers 15:25, 26; Numbers 17:6; Numbers 19:9; Numbers 25:6; Numbers 27:20; Numbers 31:12; Joshua 18:1; Joshua 22:12; הָעֵדָה Leviticus 8:4 + 29 times (compare Judges 20:1; Judges 21:10); כלהֿע׳ Leviticus 8:3 + 33 times (compare Judges 21:13); נְשִׂיאֵי (ה)ע׳ princes of the congregation Exodus 16:22; Numbers 4:34; Numbers 16:2; Numbers 31:13; Numbers 32:2; Joshua 9:15, 18; Joshua 22:30; כָּלהַֿנְּשִׂאִים בָּע׳ Exodus 34:31; זִקְנֵי הע׳ elders of the congregation Leviticus 4:15 (compare Judges 21:16); ראשׁי אבות הע׳ Numbers 31:26.
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BLB Scripture Index of Brown-Driver-Briggs

Exodus

12:3; 12:3; 12:6; 12:19; 12:47; 16:1; 16:2; 16:9; 16:10; 16:22; 17:1; 34:31; 35:1; 35:4; 35:20

Leviticus

4:13; 4:15; 8:3; 8:4; 16:5; 19:2

Numbers

1:2; 1:53; 4:34; 8:9; 8:20; 13:26; 14:5; 14:7; 15:25; 15:26; 16:2; 16:2; 16:5; 16:6; 16:9; 16:11; 16:16; 17:5; 17:6; 19:9; 20:11; 25:6; 26:9; 26:10; 27:3; 27:3; 27:17; 27:20; 31:12; 31:13; 31:16; 31:26; 32:2; 32:4

Joshua

9:15; 9:18; 18:1; 22:12; 22:16; 22:17; 22:18; 22:20; 22:30

Judges

14:8; 20:1; 21:10; 21:13; 21:16

1 Kings

8:5

2 Chronicles

5:6

Job

15:34; 16:7; 16:7

Psalms

1:5; 7:8; 22:17; 68:31; 74:2; 82:1; 86:14; 106:17; 106:18; 111:1

Proverbs

5:14

Jeremiah

6:18; 30:20

Hosea

7:12

H5712

Word / Phrase / Strong's Search

Strong's Number H5712 matches the Hebrew עֵדָה (ʿēḏâ),
which occurs 15 times in 14 verses in 'Jos' in the WLC Hebrew.

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Unchecked Copy Box Jos 9:15

Unchecked Copy BoxJos 9:15 - So Joshua made peace with them, and made a covenant with them to let them live; and the rulers of the congregation swore to them.

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Unchecked Copy Box Jos 9:18

Unchecked Copy BoxJos 9:18 - But the children of Israel did not attack them, because the rulers of the congregation had sworn to them by the LORD God of Israel. And all the congregation complained against the rulers.

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Unchecked Copy Box Jos 9:19

Unchecked Copy BoxJos 9:19 - Then all the rulers said to all the congregation, “We have sworn to them by the LORD God of Israel; now therefore, we may not touch them.

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Unchecked Copy Box Jos 9:21

Unchecked Copy BoxJos 9:21 - And the rulers said to them, “Let them live, but let them be woodcutters and water carriers for all the congregation, as the rulers had promised them.”

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Unchecked Copy Box Jos 9:27

Unchecked Copy BoxJos 9:27 - And that day Joshua made them woodcutters and water carriers for the congregation and for the altar of the LORD, in the place which He would choose, even to this day.

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Unchecked Copy Box Jos 18:1

Unchecked Copy BoxJos 18:1 - Now the whole congregation of the children of Israel assembled together at Shiloh, and set up the tabernacle of meeting there. And the land was subdued before them.

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Unchecked Copy Box Jos 20:6

Unchecked Copy BoxJos 20:6 - ‘And he shall dwell in that city until he stands before the congregation for judgment, and until the death of the one who is high priest in those days. Then the slayer may return and come to his own city and his own house, to the city from which he fled.’ ”

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Unchecked Copy Box Jos 20:9

Unchecked Copy BoxJos 20:9 - These were the cities appointed for all the children of Israel and for the stranger who dwelt among them, that whoever killed a person accidentally might flee there, and not die by the hand of the avenger of blood until he stood before the congregation.

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Unchecked Copy Box Jos 22:12

Unchecked Copy BoxJos 22:12 - And when the children of Israel heard of it, the whole congregation of the children of Israel gathered together at Shiloh to go to war against them.

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Unchecked Copy Box Jos 22:16

Unchecked Copy BoxJos 22:16 - “Thus says the whole congregation of the LORD: ‘What treachery is this that you have committed against the God of Israel, to turn away this day from following the LORD, in that you have built for yourselves an altar, that you might rebel this day against the LORD?

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Unchecked Copy Box Jos 22:17

Unchecked Copy BoxJos 22:17 - ‘Is the iniquity of Peor not enough for us, from which we are not cleansed till this day, although there was a plague in the congregation of the LORD,

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Unchecked Copy Box Jos 22:18

Unchecked Copy BoxJos 22:18 - ‘but that you must turn away this day from following the LORD? And it shall be, if you rebel today against the LORD, that tomorrow He will be angry with the whole congregation of Israel.

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Unchecked Copy Box Jos 22:20

Unchecked Copy BoxJos 22:20 - ‘Did not Achan the son of Zerah commit a trespass in the accursed thing, and wrath fell on all the congregation of Israel? And that man did not perish alone in his iniquity.’ ”

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Unchecked Copy Box Jos 22:30

Unchecked Copy BoxJos 22:30 - Now when Phinehas the priest and the rulers of the congregation, the heads of the divisions[fn] of Israel who were with him, heard the words that the children of Reuben, the children of Gad, and the children of Manasseh spoke, it pleased them.
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