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Hebrew adjective · H117

אַדִּיר

addirad-deer'

great

27 uses in the Hebrew text, one for each word STEP Bible has tagged with this key

Concordance spelling: ʼaddîyr

Word page · Part of the concordance, one page for every word of the Hebrew and Greek text. Strong's H117is this word's number in James Strong's 1890 index of the King James Bible.

  • 11 of 39
    Old Testament books
  • 25
    spellings

The definition in full

Strong's key (1890) · H117

wide or (generally) large; figuratively, powerful

The King James renders it: excellent, famous, gallant, glorious, goodly, lordly, mighty(-ier one), noble, principal, worthy.

James Strong, The Exhaustive Concordance of the Bible (1890), public domain. Strong indexed the King James text, and this site quotes his entry as that index.

Summary

addir is rendered "great". It stands 27 times in the Hebrew text, across eleven books.

  • Seven of the uses stand in Psalms, more than in any other book.
  • Its first use in canonical order opens the ledger below.Exodus 15:10But You blew with Your breath, and the sea covered them. They sank like lead in the mighty waters.
  • The Greek text spells it twenty-five different ways.

The first use

But You blew with Your breath, and the sea covered them. They sank like lead in the mighty waters.

Exodus 15:10אַדִּירִֽים׃

The first use, in the order of the Old Testament's books.

Where the word stands

Seven of the word's twenty-seven uses are in Psalms.

The other 28 Old Testament books never use the word.

What the word means

Each meaning, and the words it is translated by

How the Greek text is glossed, word by word

  • majestic9
  • mighty3
  • and majestic1
  • and noble their1
  • and nobles their1
  • by a mighty1
  • from noble of1
  • noble its1
  • noble of1
  • noble their1
  • nobles1
  • nobles his1

and 5 more, 27 uses in all

The words built on the same word-part

Each word below begins with the same letters this one begins with. A shared word-part shows a family. It does not settle what any one of them means, so each word carries its own uses on its own page. Scholars call that shared part the stem.

All 27, in canonical order

Every use, in order

Every use, grouped by book, with its verse.

25 spellings and their grammar

STEP Bible tags every word of the Hebrew and Greek text with its spelling and its grammar. Both lists below count the rows printed underneath, written out in English, with the code beside each one as it was tagged.

How it is spelled

  • אַדִּ֖יר2
  • אַדִּירֵ֣י2
  • אַדִּ֣יר1
  • אַדִּ֥יר1
  • אַדִּ֗יר1
  • אַדִּ֤יר1
  • אַדִּ֑יר1
  • אַדִּיר֜וֹ1
  • אַדִּירֵיהֶם֒1
  • אַדִּירָ֔יו1
  • אַדִּירֶ֑יךָ1
  • אַדִּירִ֣ים1

and 13 more spellings in the ledger below.

The grammar of each form

  • adjective · masculine singular7HAamsa
  • adjective · masculine plural6HAampa
  • adjective · masculine plural · in construct (“…of”)2HAampc
  • conjunction (“and”) + adjective · masculine plural · in construct (“…of”) + pronoun suffix · 3rd person masculine plural2HC/Aampc/Sp3mp
  • the definite article (“the”) + adjective · masculine plural2HTd/Aampa
  • adjective · masculine plural · in construct (“…of”) + pronoun suffix · 2nd person masculine singular1HAampc/Sp2ms
  • adjective · masculine plural · in construct (“…of”) + pronoun suffix · 3rd person masculine plural1HAampc/Sp3mp
  • adjective · masculine plural · in construct (“…of”) + pronoun suffix · 3rd person masculine singular1HAampc/Sp3ms
  • adjective · masculine singular · in construct (“…of”) + pronoun suffix · 3rd person masculine singular1HAamsc/Sp3ms
  • conjunction (“and”) + adjective · masculine plural · in construct (“…of”)1HC/Aampc
  • preposition + adjective · masculine plural1HR/Aampa
  • preposition + adjective · masculine plural · in construct (“…of”)1HR/Aampc

Exodus

one use
  • But You blew with Your breath, and the sea covered them. They sank like lead in the mighty waters.

    Exodus 15:10

    • אַדִּירִֽים׃ʾadirimadjective · masculine pluraltagged: mighty

Judges

two uses
  • Then the survivors came down to the nobles; the people of the LORD came down to me against the mighty.

    Judges 5:13

    • לְאַדִּירִ֖יםleadirimpreposition + adjective · masculine pluraltagged: of nobles
  • He asked for water, and she gave him milk. In a magnificent bowl she brought him curds.

    Judges 5:25

    • אַדִּירִ֖יםʾadirimadjective · masculine pluraltagged: nobles

1 Samuel

one use
  • Woe to us! Who will deliver us from the hand of these mighty gods? These are the gods who struck the Egyptians with all kinds of plagues in the wilderness.

    1 Samuel 4:8

    • הָאַדִּירִ֖יםhaadirimthe definite article (“the”) + adjective · masculine pluraltagged: the mighty

2 Chronicles

one use
  • He also took with him the commanders of hundreds, the nobles, the rulers of the people, and all the people of the land, and they brought the king down from the house of the LORD and entered the royal palace through the Upper Gate. They seated King Joash on the royal throne,

    2 Chronicles 23:20

    • הָֽאַדִּירִים֩haadirimthe definite article (“the”) + adjective · masculine pluraltagged: the nobles

Nehemiah

two uses
  • Next to him, the Tekoites made repairs, but their nobles did not put their shoulders to the work under their supervisors.

    Nehemiah 3:5

    • וְאַדִּֽירֵיהֶם֙veadireihemconjunction (“and”) + adjective · masculine plural · in construct (“…of”) + pronoun suffix · 3rd person masculine pluraltagged: and nobles their
  • hereby join with their noble brothers and commit themselves with a sworn oath to follow the Law of God given through His servant Moses and to carefully obey all the commandments, ordinances, and statutes of the LORD our Lord.

    Nehemiah 10:29

    • אַדִּירֵיהֶם֒ʾadireihemadjective · masculine plural · in construct (“…of”) + pronoun suffix · 3rd person masculine pluraltagged: noble their

Psalms

seven uses
  • O LORD, our Lord, how majestic is Your name in all the earth! You have set Your glory above the heavens.

    Psalms 8:1

    • אַדִּ֣ירʾadiradjective · masculine singulartagged: majestic
  • O LORD, our Lord, how majestic is Your name in all the earth!

    Psalms 8:9

    • אַדִּ֥ירʾadiradjective · masculine singulartagged: majestic
  • As for the saints in the land, they are the excellence in whom all my delight resides.

    Psalms 16:3

    • וְ֝אַדִּירֵ֗יveadireiconjunction (“and”) + adjective · masculine plural · in construct (“…of”)tagged: and majestic
  • You are resplendent with light, more majestic than mountains filled with game.

    Psalms 76:4

    • אַדִּ֗ירʾadiradjective · masculine singulartagged: majestic
  • Above the roar of many waters— the mighty breakers of the sea— the LORD on high is majestic.

    Psalms 93:4

    • אַדִּירִ֣יםʾadirimadjective · masculine pluraltagged: majestic
    • אַדִּ֖ירʾadiradjective · masculine singulartagged: majestic
  • and slaughtered mighty kings— His loving devotion endures forever.

    Psalms 136:18

    • אַדִּירִ֑יםʾadirimadjective · masculine pluraltagged: mighty

Isaiah

three uses
  • He will clear the forest thickets with an axe, and Lebanon will fall before the Mighty One.

    Isaiah 10:34

    • בְּאַדִּ֥ירbeadirpreposition + adjective · masculine singulartagged: by a mighty
  • But there the Majestic One, our LORD, will be for us a place of rivers and wide canals, where no galley with oars will row, and no majestic vessel will pass.

    Isaiah 33:21

    • אַדִּ֤ירʾadiradjective · masculine singulartagged: majestic
    • אַדִּ֖ירʾadiradjective · masculine singulartagged: majestic

Jeremiah

five uses
  • The nobles send their servants for water; they go to the cisterns, but find no water; their jars return empty. They are ashamed and humiliated; they cover their heads.

    Jeremiah 14:3

    • וְאַדִּ֣רֵיהֶ֔םveadireihemconjunction (“and”) + adjective · masculine plural · in construct (“…of”) + pronoun suffix · 3rd person masculine pluraltagged: and noble their
  • Wail, you shepherds, and cry out; roll in the dust, you leaders of the flock. For the days of your slaughter have come; you will fall and be shattered like fine pottery.

    Jeremiah 25:34

    • אַדִּירֵ֣יʾadireiadjective · masculine plural · in construct (“…of”)tagged: O noble of
  • Flight will evade the shepherds, and escape will elude the leaders of the flock.

    Jeremiah 25:35

    • מֵאַדִּירֵ֥יmeadireipreposition + adjective · masculine plural · in construct (“…of”)tagged: from noble of
  • Hear the cry of the shepherds, the wailing of the leaders of the flock, for the LORD is destroying their pasture.

    Jeremiah 25:36

    • אַדִּירֵ֣יʾadireiadjective · masculine plural · in construct (“…of”)tagged: noble of
  • Their leader will be one of their own, and their ruler will arise from their midst. And I will bring him near, and he will approach Me, for who would dare on his own to approach Me?” declares the LORD.

    Jeremiah 30:21

    • אַדִּיר֜וֹʾadiroadjective · masculine singular · in construct (“…of”) + pronoun suffix · 3rd person masculine singulartagged: noble its

Ezekiel

two uses
  • I will plant it on the mountain heights of Israel so that it will bear branches; it will yield fruit and become a majestic cedar. Birds of every kind will nest under it, taking shelter in the shade of its branches.

    Ezekiel 17:23

    • אַדִּ֑ירʾadiradjective · masculine singulartagged: majestic
  • “Son of man, wail for the multitudes of Egypt, and consign her and the daughters of the mighty nations to the depths of the earth with those who descend to the Pit:

    Ezekiel 32:18

    • אַדִּרִ֛םʾadirimadjective · masculine pluraltagged: mighty

Nahum

two uses
  • He summons his nobles; they stumble as they advance. They race to its wall; the protective shield is set in place.

    Nahum 2:5

    • אַדִּירָ֔יוʾadiravadjective · masculine plural · in construct (“…of”) + pronoun suffix · 3rd person masculine singulartagged: nobles his
  • O king of Assyria, your shepherds slumber; your officers sleep. Your people are scattered on the mountains with no one to gather them.

    Nahum 3:18

    • אַדִּירֶ֑יךָʾadireikhaadjective · masculine plural · in construct (“…of”) + pronoun suffix · 2nd person masculine singulartagged: nobles your

Zechariah

one use
  • Wail, O cypress, for the cedar has fallen; the majestic trees are ruined! Wail, O oaks of Bashan, for the dense forest has been cut down!

    Zechariah 11:2

    • אַדִּרִ֖יםʾadirimadjective · masculine pluraltagged: majestic

The letters

Where it leads

How the numbers are counted

Every count on this page comes from STEP Bible's tagged Hebrew and Greek text, the same text the ledger prints. A use is counted once each time the tagging marks a word with this key.

Spellings are counted as the Greek text spells them, with the sentence's own punctuation taken off the word first, so a form that ends a clause is not counted as a second spelling.

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Meaning and senses: STEP Bible TBESH gloss (Tyndale House, CC BY 4.0).

Dictionary key: Strong's Exhaustive Concordance of the Bible (1890, public domain). English verse text: Berean Standard Bible (public domain, 2023).

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