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Hebrew verb · H5087

נָדַר

nadarnaw-dar'

to vow

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

Concordance spelling: nâdar

Word page · Part of the concordance, one page for every word of the Hebrew and Greek text. Strong's H5087is this word's number in James Strong's 1890 index of the King James Bible.

  • 13 of 39
    Old Testament books
  • 29
    spellings

The definition in full

Strong's key (1890) · H5087

to promise (pos., to do or give something to God)

The King James renders it: (make a) vow.

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

nadar is rendered "to vow". It stands 31 times in the Hebrew text, across thirteen books.

  • Seven of the uses stand in Numbers, more than in any other book.
  • Its first use in canonical order opens the ledger below.Genesis 28:20Then Jacob made a vow, saying, “If God will be with me and watch over me on this journey, and if He will provide me with food to eat and clothes to wear,
  • The Greek text spells it twenty-nine different ways.

The first use

Then Jacob made a vow, saying, “If God will be with me and watch over me on this journey, and if He will provide me with food to eat and clothes to wear,

Genesis 28:20וַיִּדַּ֥ר

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

Where the word stands

The word stands in thirteen of the 39 Old Testament books.

The other 26 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

  • you will vow6
  • he will vow3
  • and he vowed2
  • he vowed2
  • and it vowed1
  • and makes a vow1
  • and she vowed1
  • and they vowed1
  • and they will vow1
  • he had vowed1
  • I have vowed1
  • I vowed1

and 10 more, 31 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.

נָדַחnadachto banishUses55
נָדַדnadadto wanderUses28
נָדַבnadabbe willingUses17
נָדַףnadaphto driveUses9

The words it stands beside

All 31, in canonical order

Every use, in order

Every use, grouped by book, with its verse.

29 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

  • וַיִּדַּ֨ר2
  • תִדֹּ֥ר2
  • הַנֹּדֵ֔ר1
  • וַיִּדַּ֥ר1
  • וַֽיִּדְּר֖וּ1
  • וְנֹדֵ֛ר1
  • וְנָדְרוּ־1
  • וַתִּדֹּ֨ר1
  • יִדֹּר֒1
  • יִדֹּ֔ר1
  • יִדֹּ֨ר1
  • לִנְדֹּר֙1

and 17 more spellings in the ledger below.

The grammar of each form

  • verb · simple (qal), yiqtol (imperfect) · 2nd person masculine singular5HVqi2ms
  • Hc/Vqw3ms3Hc/Vqw3ms
  • verb · simple (qal), yiqtol (imperfect) · 3rd person masculine singular3HVqi3ms
  • verb · simple (qal), qatal (perfect) · 3rd person masculine singular3HVqp3ms
  • preposition + verb · simple (qal), infinitive (“to…”)2HR/Vqcc
  • verb · simple (qal), qatal (perfect) · 1st person common singular2HVqp1cs
  • verb · simple (qal), qatal (perfect) · 2nd person masculine singular2HVqp2ms
  • Hc/Vqq3cp1Hc/Vqq3cp
  • conjunction (“and”) + verb · simple (qal), participle · masculine singular1HC/Vqrmsa
  • Hc/Vqw3fs1Hc/Vqw3fs
  • Hc/Vqw3mp1Hc/Vqw3mp
  • preposition + relative particle (“who / which”) + verb · simple (qal), yiqtol (imperfect) · 2nd person masculine singular1HR/Tr/Vqi2ms

Genesis

two uses
  • Then Jacob made a vow, saying, “If God will be with me and watch over me on this journey, and if He will provide me with food to eat and clothes to wear,

    Genesis 28:20

    • וַיִּדַּ֥רvaiyidarHc/Vqw3mstagged: and he vowed
  • I am the God of Bethel, where you anointed the pillar and made a solemn vow to Me. Now get up and leave this land at once, and return to your native land.’”

    Genesis 31:13

    • נָדַ֥רְתָּnadartaverb · simple (qal), qatal (perfect) · 2nd person masculine singulartagged: you vowed

Leviticus

one use
  • But if the one making the vow is too poor to pay the valuation, he is to present the person before the priest, who shall set the value according to what the one making the vow can afford.

    Leviticus 27:8

    • הַנֹּדֵ֔רhanoderthe definite article (“the”) + verb · simple (qal), participle · masculine singulartagged: the vows

Numbers

seven uses
  • “Speak to the Israelites and tell them that if a man or woman makes a special vow, the vow of a Nazirite, to separate himself to the LORD,

    Numbers 6:2

    • לִנְדֹּר֙lindorpreposition + verb · simple (qal), infinitive (“to…”)tagged: to vow
  • This is the law of the Nazirite who vows his offering to the LORD for his separation, in addition to whatever else he can afford; he must fulfill whatever vow he makes, according to the law of his separation.”

    Numbers 6:21

    • יִדֹּר֒yidorverb · simple (qal), yiqtol (imperfect) · 3rd person masculine singulartagged: he will vow
    • יִדֹּ֔רyidorverb · simple (qal), yiqtol (imperfect) · 3rd person masculine singulartagged: he will vow
  • So Israel made a vow to the LORD: “If You will deliver this people into our hands, we will devote their cities to destruction.”

    Numbers 21:2

    • וַיִּדַּ֨רvaiyidarHc/Vqw3mstagged: and it vowed
  • If a man makes a vow to the LORD or swears an oath to obligate himself by a pledge, he must not break his word; he must do everything he has promised.

    Numbers 30:2

    • יִדֹּ֨רyidorverb · simple (qal), yiqtol (imperfect) · 3rd person masculine singulartagged: he will vow
  • And if a woman in her father’s house during her youth makes a vow to the LORD or obligates herself by a pledge,

    Numbers 30:3

    • תִדֹּ֥רtidorverb · simple (qal), yiqtol (imperfect) · 3rd person feminine singulartagged: she will vow
  • If a woman in her husband’s house has made a vow or put herself under an obligation with an oath,

    Numbers 30:10

    • נָדָ֑רָהnadarahverb · simple (qal), qatal (perfect) · 3rd person feminine singulartagged: she has vowed

Deuteronomy

five uses
  • then the LORD your God will choose a dwelling for His Name. And there you are to bring everything I command you: your burnt offerings and sacrifices, your tithes and special gifts, and all the choice offerings you vow to the LORD.

    Deuteronomy 12:11

    • תִּדְּר֖וּtideruverb · simple (qal), yiqtol (imperfect) · 2nd person masculine pluraltagged: you will vow
  • Within your gates you must not eat the tithe of your grain or new wine or oil, the firstborn of your herds or flocks, any of the offerings that you have vowed to give, or your freewill offerings or special gifts.

    Deuteronomy 12:17

    • תִּדֹּ֔רtidorverb · simple (qal), yiqtol (imperfect) · 2nd person masculine singulartagged: you will vow
  • If you make a vow to the LORD your God, do not be slow to keep it, because He will surely require it of you, and you will be guilty of sin.

    Deuteronomy 23:21

    • תִדֹּ֥רtidorverb · simple (qal), yiqtol (imperfect) · 2nd person masculine singulartagged: you will vow
  • But if you refrain from making a vow, you will not be guilty of sin.

    Deuteronomy 23:22

    • לִנְדֹּ֑רlindorpreposition + verb · simple (qal), infinitive (“to…”)tagged: to make a vow
  • Be careful to follow through on what comes from your lips, because you have freely vowed to the LORD your God with your own mouth.

    Deuteronomy 23:23

    • נָדַ֜רְתָּnadartaverb · simple (qal), qatal (perfect) · 2nd person masculine singulartagged: you have vowed

Judges

two uses
  • Jephthah made this vow to the LORD: “If indeed You will deliver the Ammonites into my hand,

    Judges 11:30

    • וַיִּדַּ֨רvaiyidarHc/Vqw3mstagged: and he vowed
  • After two months, she returned to her father, and he did to her as he had vowed. And she had never had relations with a man. So it has become a custom in Israel

    Judges 11:39

    • נָדָ֑רnadarverb · simple (qal), qatal (perfect) · 3rd person masculine singulartagged: he had vowed

1 Samuel

one use
  • And she made a vow, pleading, “O LORD of Hosts, if only You will look upon the affliction of Your maidservant and remember me, not forgetting Your maidservant but giving her a son, then I will dedicate him to the LORD all the days of his life, and no razor shall ever come over his head.”

    1 Samuel 1:11

    • וַתִּדֹּ֨רvatidorHc/Vqw3fstagged: and she vowed

2 Samuel

two uses
  • After four years had passed, Absalom said to the king, “Please let me go to Hebron to fulfill a vow I have made to the LORD.

    2 Samuel 15:7

    • נָדַ֥רְתִּיnadartiverb · simple (qal), qatal (perfect) · 1st person common singulartagged: I vowed
  • For your servant made a vow while dwelling in Geshur of Aram, saying: ‘If indeed the LORD brings me back to Jerusalem, I will worship the LORD in Hebron.’”

    2 Samuel 15:8

    • נָדַ֣רnadarverb · simple (qal), qatal (perfect) · 3rd person masculine singulartagged: he vowed

Psalms

two uses
  • Make and fulfill your vows to the LORD your God; let all the neighboring lands bring tribute to Him who is to be feared.

    Psalms 76:11

    • נִֽדֲר֣וּnidaruverb · simple (qal), command · 2nd person masculine pluraltagged: make vows
  • how he swore an oath to the LORD, and vowed to the Mighty One of Jacob:

    Psalms 132:2

    • נָ֝דַ֗רnadarverb · simple (qal), qatal (perfect) · 3rd person masculine singulartagged: he vowed

Ecclesiastes

four uses
  • When you make a vow to God, do not delay in fulfilling it, because He takes no pleasure in fools. Fulfill your vow.

    Ecclesiastes 5:4

    • תִּדֹּ֨רtidorverb · simple (qal), yiqtol (imperfect) · 2nd person masculine singulartagged: you will vow
    • תִּדֹּ֖רtidorverb · simple (qal), yiqtol (imperfect) · 2nd person masculine singulartagged: you will vow
  • It is better not to vow than to make a vow and not fulfill it.

    Ecclesiastes 5:5

    • תִדֹּ֑רtidorverb · simple (qal), yiqtol (imperfect) · 2nd person masculine singulartagged: you will vow
    • מִשֶׁתִּדּ֖וֹרmishettidorpreposition + relative particle (“who / which”) + verb · simple (qal), yiqtol (imperfect) · 2nd person masculine singulartagged: more than what you will vow

Isaiah

one use
  • The LORD will make Himself known to Egypt, and on that day Egypt will acknowledge the LORD. They will worship with sacrifices and offerings; they will make vows to the LORD and fulfill them.

    Isaiah 19:21

    • וְנָדְרוּ־venaderu-Hc/Vqq3cptagged: and they will vow

Jeremiah

one use
  • This is what the LORD of Hosts, the God of Israel, says: As for you and your wives, you have spoken with your mouths and fulfilled with your hands your words: ‘We will surely perform our vows that we have made to burn incense to the Queen of Heaven and to pour out drink offerings to her.’ Go ahead, then, do what you have promised! Keep your vows!

    Jeremiah 44:25

    • נָדַ֙רְנוּ֙nadarnuverb · simple (qal), qatal (perfect) · 1st person common pluraltagged: we have vowed

Jonah

two uses
  • Then the men feared the LORD greatly, and they offered a sacrifice to the LORD and made vows to Him.

    Jonah 1:16

    • וַֽיִּדְּר֖וּvaiyideruHc/Vqw3mptagged: and they vowed
  • But I, with the voice of thanksgiving, will sacrifice to You. I will fulfill what I have vowed. Salvation is from the LORD!”

    Jonah 2:9

    • נָדַ֖רְתִּיnadartiverb · simple (qal), qatal (perfect) · 1st person common singulartagged: I have vowed

Malachi

one use
  • “But cursed is the deceiver who has an acceptable male in his flock and vows to give it, but sacrifices a defective animal to the Lord. For I am a great King,” says the LORD of Hosts, “and My name is to be feared among the nations.

    Malachi 1:14

    • וְנֹדֵ֛רvenoderconjunction (“and”) + verb · simple (qal), participle · masculine singulartagged: and makes a vow

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.

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.

Hebrew and Greek text, word tagging and grammar: STEP Bible (www.STEPBible.org), Tyndale House, CC BY 4.0. Their grammar codes are written out in English here and shown as tagged beside each one.

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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