Hebrew noun (masculine) · H1918
הֲדַס
hadashad-as'
myrtle
6 uses in the Hebrew text, one for each word STEP Bible has tagged with this key
Concordance spelling: hădaç
Word page · Part of the concordance, one page for every word of the Hebrew and Greek text. Strong's H1918is this word's number in James Strong's 1890 index of the King James Bible.
- 3 of 39Old Testament books
- 6spellings
The definition in full
Strong's key (1890) · H1918
the myrtle
The King James renders it: myrtle (tree).
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
hadas is rendered "myrtle". It stands 6 times in the Hebrew text, across three books.
- Three of the uses stand in Zechariah, more than in any other book.
- Its first use in canonical order opens the ledger below.Nehemiah 8:15So they proclaimed this message and spread it throughout their towns and in Jerusalem, saying, “Go out to the hill country and bring back branches of olive, wild olive, myrtle, palm, and other leafy trees, to make booths, as it is written.”
- The Greek text spells it six different ways.
The first use
So they proclaimed this message and spread it throughout their towns and in Jerusalem, saying, “Go out to the hill country and bring back branches of olive, wild olive, myrtle, palm, and other leafy trees, to make booths, as it is written.”
Nehemiah 8:15הֲדַס֙
The first use, in the order of the Old Testament's books.
Where the word stands
Three of the word's six uses are in Zechariah.
What the word means
Each meaning, and the words it is translated by
How the Greek text is glossed, word by word
- the myrtle trees3
- a myrtle tree1
- and myrtle tree1
- myrtle1
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 6, in canonical order
Every use, in order
Every use, grouped by book, with its verse.
6 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
- הֲדַס֙1
- הֲדַ֑ס1
- הַהֲדַסִּ֖ים1
- הַהֲדַסִּ֔ים1
- הַהַדַסִּ֖ים1
- וַהֲדַ֖ס1
The grammar of each form
- the definite article (“the”) + noun · masculine plural3HTd/Ncmpa
- noun · masculine singular2HNcmsa
- conjunction (“and”) + noun · masculine singular1HC/Ncmsa
Nehemiah
one use
So they proclaimed this message and spread it throughout their towns and in Jerusalem, saying, “Go out to the hill country and bring back branches of olive, wild olive, myrtle, palm, and other leafy trees, to make booths, as it is written.”
- הֲדַס֙hadasnoun · masculine singulartagged: myrtle
Isaiah
two uses
I will plant cedars in the wilderness, acacias, myrtles, and olive trees. I will set cypresses in the desert, elms and boxwood together,
- וַהֲדַ֖סvahadasconjunction (“and”) + noun · masculine singulartagged: and myrtle tree
Instead of the thornbush, a cypress will grow, and instead of the brier, a myrtle will spring up; they will make a name for the LORD, an everlasting sign, never to be destroyed.”
- הֲדַ֑סhadasnoun · masculine singulartagged: a myrtle tree
Zechariah
three uses
I looked out into the night and saw a man riding on a red horse. He was standing among the myrtle trees in the hollow, and behind him were red, sorrel, and white horses.
- הַהֲדַסִּ֖יםhahadasimthe definite article (“the”) + noun · masculine pluraltagged: the myrtle trees
Then the man standing among the myrtle trees explained, “They are the ones the LORD has sent to patrol the earth.”
- הַהַדַסִּ֖יםhahadasimthe definite article (“the”) + noun · masculine pluraltagged: the myrtle trees
And the riders answered the angel of the LORD who was standing among the myrtle trees, “We have patrolled the earth, and behold, all the earth is at rest and tranquil.”
- הַהֲדַסִּ֔יםhahadasimthe definite article (“the”) + noun · masculine pluraltagged: the myrtle trees
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.
The words it stands beside are the nouns, verbs and adjectives immediately before or after it, counted in every verse where the word stands. The article, the conjunctions and the prepositions are left out, because they stand beside every word.
The family is read from the lexicon by the stem the two words share, with the accents off, and a person or a place named on the stem is left out.