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Hebrew noun (masculine) · H5088

נֶדֶר

nederneh'-der

vow

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

Word page · Part of the concordance, one page for every word of the Hebrew and Greek text. Strong's H5088is this word's number in James Strong's 1890 index of the King James Bible.

  • 15 of 39
    Old Testament books
  • 44
    spellings

The definition in full

Strong's key (1890) · H5088

a promise (to God); also (concretely) a thing promised

The King James renders it: vow(-ed).

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

neder is rendered "vow". It stands 60 times in the Hebrew text, across fifteen books.

  • Twenty 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 forty-four 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 28:20נֶ֣דֶר

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

Where the word stands

Twenty of the word's sixty uses are in Numbers.

The other 24 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

  • a vow17
  • vows my7
  • vows your6
  • vows her5
  • vow his3
  • and votive offerings your2
  • votive offerings your2
  • vow2
  • vow her2
  • vows2
  • a vow of1
  • and for a vow1

and 10 more, 60 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.

The words it stands beside

All 60, in canonical order

Every use, in order

Every use, grouped by book, with its verse.

44 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

  • נֶ֣דֶר3
  • נֶ֑דֶר3
  • נֶ֙דֶר֙3
  • נֶ֜דֶר3
  • נְדָרָֽי׃3
  • נְדָרֶ֔יהָ3
  • נֶ֛דֶר2
  • נְ֭דָרַי2
  • נְדָרֶ֗יהָ2
  • נִדְרֵיכֶ֔ם2
  • וּלְנֵ֖דֶר1
  • וְנֵ֥דֶר1

and 32 more spellings in the ledger below.

The grammar of each form

  • noun · masculine singular19HNcmsa
  • noun · masculine plural · in construct (“…of”) + pronoun suffix · 1st person masculine or feminine singular7HNcmpc/Sp1bs
  • noun · masculine plural · in construct (“…of”) + pronoun suffix · 3rd person feminine singular5HNcmpc/Sp3fs
  • noun · masculine plural · in construct (“…of”) + pronoun suffix · 2nd person masculine plural4HNcmpc/Sp2mp
  • noun · masculine plural · in construct (“…of”) + pronoun suffix · 2nd person masculine singular3HNcmpc/Sp2ms
  • noun · masculine singular · in construct (“…of”) + pronoun suffix · 3rd person masculine singular3HNcmsc/Sp3ms
  • conjunction (“and”) + noun · masculine plural · in construct (“…of”) + pronoun suffix · 2nd person masculine singular2HC/Ncmpc/Sp2ms
  • noun · masculine plural2HNcmpa
  • noun · masculine singular · in construct (“…of”)2HNcmsc
  • noun · masculine singular · in construct (“…of”) + pronoun suffix · 3rd person feminine singular2HNcmsc/Sp3fs
  • conjunction (“and”) + noun · masculine plural · in construct (“…of”) + pronoun suffix · 2nd person masculine plural1HC/Ncmpc/Sp2mp
  • conjunction (“and”) + noun · masculine plural · in construct (“…of”) + pronoun suffix · 3rd person feminine singular1HC/Ncmpc/Sp3fs

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

    • נֶ֣דֶרnedernoun · masculine singulartagged: a vow
  • 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

    • נֶ֑דֶרnedernoun · masculine singulartagged: a vow

Leviticus

six uses
  • If, however, the sacrifice he offers is a vow or a freewill offering, it shall be eaten on the day he presents his sacrifice, but the remainder may be eaten on the next day.

    Leviticus 7:16

    • נֶ֣דֶר׀nedernoun · masculine singulartagged: a vow
  • “Speak to Aaron and his sons and all the Israelites and tell them, ‘Any man of the house of Israel or any foreign resident who presents a gift for a burnt offering to the LORD, whether to fulfill a vow or as a freewill offering,

    Leviticus 22:18

    • נִדְרֵיהֶם֙nidreihemnoun · masculine plural · in construct (“…of”) + pronoun suffix · 3rd person masculine pluraltagged: vows their
  • When a man presents a peace offering to the LORD from the herd or flock to fulfill a vow or as a freewill offering, it must be without blemish or defect to be acceptable.

    Leviticus 22:21

    • נֶ֙דֶר֙nedernoun · masculine singulartagged: a vow
  • You may present as a freewill offering an ox or sheep that has a deformed or stunted limb, but it is not acceptable in fulfillment of a vow.

    Leviticus 22:23

    • וּלְנֵ֖דֶרulenederconjunction (“and”) + preposition + noun · masculine singulartagged: and for a vow
  • These offerings are in addition to the offerings for the LORD’s Sabbaths, and in addition to your gifts, to all your vow offerings, and to all the freewill offerings you give to the LORD.

    Leviticus 23:38

    • נִדְרֵיכֶם֙nidreikhemnoun · masculine plural · in construct (“…of”) + pronoun suffix · 2nd person masculine pluraltagged: vows your
  • “Speak to the Israelites and say to them, ‘When someone makes a special vow to the LORD involving the value of persons,

    Leviticus 27:2

    • נֶ֑דֶרnedernoun · masculine singulartagged: a vow

Numbers

twenty 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

    • נֶ֣דֶרnedernoun · masculine singular · in construct (“…of”)tagged: a vow of
  • For the entire period of his vow of separation, no razor shall pass over his head. He must be holy until the time of his separation to the LORD is complete; he must let the hair of his head grow long.

    Numbers 6:5

    • נֶ֣דֶרnedernoun · masculine singular · in construct (“…of”)tagged: vow of
  • 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

    • נִדְרוֹ֙nidronoun · masculine singular · in construct (“…of”) + pronoun suffix · 3rd person masculine singulartagged: vow his
  • and you present an offering made by fire to the LORD from the herd or flock to produce a pleasing aroma to the LORD—either a burnt offering or a sacrifice, for a special vow or freewill offering or appointed feast—

    Numbers 15:3

    • נֶ֙דֶר֙nedernoun · masculine singulartagged: a vow
  • When you prepare a young bull as a burnt offering or sacrifice to fulfill a vow or as a peace offering to the LORD,

    Numbers 15:8

    • נֶ֥דֶרnedernoun · masculine singulartagged: a 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

    • נֶ֛דֶרnedernoun · masculine singulartagged: a vow
  • You are to present these offerings to the LORD at your appointed times, in addition to your vow and freewill offerings, whether burnt offerings, grain offerings, drink offerings, or peace offerings.”

    Numbers 29:39

    • מִנִּדְרֵיכֶ֜םminidreikhempreposition + noun · masculine plural · in construct (“…of”) + pronoun suffix · 2nd person masculine pluraltagged: from votive offerings your
  • 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

    • נֶ֜דֶרnedernoun · masculine singulartagged: a 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

    • נֶ֖דֶרnedernoun · masculine singulartagged: a vow
  • and her father hears about her vow or pledge but says nothing to her, then all the vows or pledges by which she has bound herself shall stand.

    Numbers 30:4

    • נִדְרָ֗הּnidrahnoun · masculine singular · in construct (“…of”) + pronoun suffix · 3rd person feminine singulartagged: vow her
    • נְדָרֶ֔יהָnedareihanoun · masculine plural · in construct (“…of”) + pronoun suffix · 3rd person feminine singulartagged: vows her
  • But if her father prohibits her on the day he hears about it, then none of the vows or pledges by which she has bound herself shall stand. The LORD will absolve her because her father has prohibited her.

    Numbers 30:5

    • נְדָרֶ֗יהָnedareihanoun · masculine plural · in construct (“…of”) + pronoun suffix · 3rd person feminine singulartagged: vows her
  • If a woman marries while under a vow or rash promise by which she has bound herself,

    Numbers 30:6

    • וּנְדָרֶ֖יהָunedareihaconjunction (“and”) + noun · masculine plural · in construct (“…of”) + pronoun suffix · 3rd person feminine singulartagged: and vows her
  • and her husband hears of it but says nothing to her on that day, then the vows or pledges by which she has bound herself shall stand.

    Numbers 30:7

    • נְדָרֶ֗יהָnedareihanoun · masculine plural · in construct (“…of”) + pronoun suffix · 3rd person feminine singulartagged: vows her
  • But if her husband prohibits her when he hears of it, he nullifies the vow that binds her or the rash promise she has made, and the LORD will absolve her.

    Numbers 30:8

    • נִדְרָהּ֙nidrahnoun · masculine singular · in construct (“…of”) + pronoun suffix · 3rd person feminine singulartagged: vow her
  • Every vow a widow or divorced woman pledges to fulfill is binding on her.

    Numbers 30:9

    • וְנֵ֥דֶרvenederconjunction (“and”) + noun · masculine singular · in construct (“…of”)tagged: and vow of
  • and her husband hears of it but says nothing to her and does not prohibit her, then all the vows or pledges by which she has bound herself shall stand.

    Numbers 30:11

    • נְדָרֶ֔יהָnedareihanoun · masculine plural · in construct (“…of”) + pronoun suffix · 3rd person feminine singulartagged: vows her
  • But if her husband nullifies them on the day he hears of them, then nothing that came from her lips, whether her vows or pledges, shall stand. Her husband has nullified them, and the LORD will absolve her.

    Numbers 30:12

    • לִנְדָרֶ֛יהָlindareihapreposition + noun · masculine plural · in construct (“…of”) + pronoun suffix · 3rd person feminine singulartagged: to vows her
  • Her husband may confirm or nullify any vow or any sworn pledge to deny herself.

    Numbers 30:13

    • נֵ֛דֶרnedernoun · masculine singulartagged: vow
  • But if her husband says nothing to her from day to day, then he confirms all the vows and pledges that bind her. He has confirmed them, because he said nothing to her on the day he heard about them.

    Numbers 30:14

    • נְדָרֶ֔יהָnedareihanoun · masculine plural · in construct (“…of”) + pronoun suffix · 3rd person feminine singulartagged: vows her

Deuteronomy

six uses
  • To that place you are to bring your burnt offerings and sacrifices, your tithes and heave offerings, your vow offerings and freewill offerings, as well as the firstborn of your herds and flocks.

    Deuteronomy 12:6

    • וְנִדְרֵיכֶם֙venidreikhemconjunction (“and”) + noun · masculine plural · in construct (“…of”) + pronoun suffix · 2nd person masculine pluraltagged: and votive offerings your
  • 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

    • נִדְרֵיכֶ֔םnidreikhemnoun · masculine plural · in construct (“…of”) + pronoun suffix · 2nd person masculine pluraltagged: votive offerings your
  • 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

    • נְדָרֶ֙יךָ֙nedareikhanoun · masculine plural · in construct (“…of”) + pronoun suffix · 2nd person masculine singulartagged: votive offerings your
  • But you are to take your holy things and your vow offerings and go to the place the LORD will choose.

    Deuteronomy 12:26

    • וּנְדָרֶ֑יךָunedareikhaconjunction (“and”) + noun · masculine plural · in construct (“…of”) + pronoun suffix · 2nd person masculine singulartagged: and votive offerings your
  • You must not bring the wages of a prostitute, whether female or male, into the house of the LORD your God to fulfill any vow, because both are detestable to the LORD your God.

    Deuteronomy 23:18

    • נֶ֑דֶרnedernoun · masculine singulartagged: 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

    • נֶ֙דֶר֙nedernoun · masculine singulartagged: a vow

Judges

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

    Judges 11:30

    • נֶ֛דֶרnedernoun · masculine singulartagged: a vow
  • 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

    • נִדְר֖וֹnidronoun · masculine singular · in construct (“…of”) + pronoun suffix · 3rd person masculine singulartagged: vow his

1 Samuel

two uses
  • 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

    • נֶ֜דֶרnedernoun · masculine singulartagged: a vow
  • Then Elkanah and all his house went up to make the annual sacrifice to the LORD and to fulfill his vow,

    1 Samuel 1:21

    • נִדְרֽוֹ׃nidronoun · masculine singular · in construct (“…of”) + pronoun suffix · 3rd person masculine singulartagged: vow his

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

    • נִדְרִ֛יnidrinoun · masculine singular · in construct (“…of”) + pronoun suffix · 1st person masculine or feminine singulartagged: vow my
  • 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

    • נֵ֙דֶר֙nedernoun · masculine singulartagged: a vow

Job

one use
  • You will pray to Him, and He will hear you, and you will fulfill your vows.

    Job 22:27

    • וּנְדָרֶ֥יךָunedareikhaconjunction (“and”) + noun · masculine plural · in construct (“…of”) + pronoun suffix · 2nd person masculine singulartagged: and vows your

Psalms

nine uses
  • My praise for You resounds in the great assembly; I will fulfill my vows before those who fear You.

    Psalms 22:25

    • נְדָרַ֥יnedarainoun · masculine plural · in construct (“…of”) + pronoun suffix · 1st person masculine or feminine singulartagged: vows my
  • Sacrifice a thank offering to God, and fulfill your vows to the Most High.

    Psalms 50:14

    • נְדָרֶֽיךָ׃nedareikhanoun · masculine plural · in construct (“…of”) + pronoun suffix · 2nd person masculine singulartagged: vows your
  • Your vows are upon me, O God; I will render thank offerings to You.

    Psalms 56:12

    • נְדָרֶ֑יךָnedareikhanoun · masculine plural · in construct (“…of”) + pronoun suffix · 2nd person masculine singulartagged: vows your
  • For You have heard my vows, O God; You have given me the inheritance reserved for those who fear Your name.

    Psalms 61:5

    • לִנְדָרָ֑יlindaraipreposition + noun · masculine plural · in construct (“…of”) + pronoun suffix · 1st person masculine or feminine singulartagged: to vows my
  • Then I will ever sing praise to Your name and fulfill my vows day by day.

    Psalms 61:8

    • נְדָרַ֗יnedarainoun · masculine plural · in construct (“…of”) + pronoun suffix · 1st person masculine or feminine singulartagged: vows my
  • Praise awaits You, O God, in Zion; to You our vows will be fulfilled.

    Psalms 65:1

    • נֶֽדֶר׃nedernoun · masculine singulartagged: a vow
  • I will enter Your house with burnt offerings; I will fulfill my vows to You—

    Psalms 66:13

    • נְדָרָֽי׃nedarainoun · masculine plural · in construct (“…of”) + pronoun suffix · 1st person masculine or feminine singulartagged: vows my
  • I will fulfill my vows to the LORD in the presence of all His people.

    Psalms 116:14

    • נְ֭דָרַיnedarainoun · masculine plural · in construct (“…of”) + pronoun suffix · 1st person masculine or feminine singulartagged: vows my
  • I will fulfill my vows to the LORD in the presence of all His people,

    Psalms 116:18

    • נְ֭דָרַיnedarainoun · masculine plural · in construct (“…of”) + pronoun suffix · 1st person masculine or feminine singulartagged: vows my

Proverbs

three uses
  • “I have made my peace offerings; today I have paid my vows.

    Proverbs 7:14

    • נְדָרָֽי׃nedarainoun · masculine plural · in construct (“…of”) + pronoun suffix · 1st person masculine or feminine singulartagged: vows my
  • It is a trap for a man to dedicate something rashly, only later to reconsider his vows.

    Proverbs 20:25

    • נְדָרִ֣יםnedarimnoun · masculine pluraltagged: vows
  • What shall I say, O my son? What, O son of my womb? What, O son of my vows?

    Proverbs 31:2

    • נְדָרָֽי׃nedarainoun · masculine plural · in construct (“…of”) + pronoun suffix · 1st person masculine or feminine singulartagged: vows my

Ecclesiastes

one use
  • 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

    • נֶ֜דֶרnedernoun · masculine singulartagged: a 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

    • נֵ֥דֶרnedernoun · masculine singulartagged: a vow

Jeremiah

three uses
  • 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

    • נְדָרֵ֗ינוּnedareinunoun · masculine plural · in construct (“…of”) + pronoun suffix · 1st person masculine or feminine pluraltagged: vows our
    • נִדְרֵיכֶ֔םnidreikhemnoun · masculine plural · in construct (“…of”) + pronoun suffix · 2nd person masculine pluraltagged: vows your
    • נִדְרֵיכֶֽם׃ פnidreikhemnoun · masculine plural · in construct (“…of”) + pronoun suffix · 2nd person masculine pluraltagged: vows your

Jonah

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

    Jonah 1:16

    • נְדָרִֽים׃nedarimnoun · masculine pluraltagged: vows

Nahum

one use
  • Look to the mountains—the feet of one who brings good news, who proclaims peace! Celebrate your feasts, O Judah; fulfill your vows. For the wicked will never again march through you; they will be utterly cut off.

    Nahum 1:15

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

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