Hebrew verb · H5737
עֲדַר
adaraw-dar'
to help; to hoe; to lack
11 uses in the Hebrew text, one for each word STEP Bible has tagged with this key
Concordance spelling: ʻădar
Word page · Part of the concordance, one page for every word of the Hebrew and Greek text. Strong's H5737is this word's number in James Strong's 1890 index of the King James Bible.
- 6 of 39Old Testament books
- 10spellings
- 3meanings
The definition in full
Strong's key (1890) · H5737
to arrange as a battle, a vineyard (to hoe); hence, to muster and so to miss (or find wanting)
The King James renders it: dig, fail, keep (rank), lack.
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
adar is rendered "to help; to hoe; to lack". It stands 11 times in the Hebrew text, across six books.
- Five of the uses stand in Isaiah, more than in any other book.
- The lexicon lists three meanings for it, beginning with "to help".
- Its first use in canonical order opens the ledger below.1 Samuel 30:19Nothing was missing, young or old, son or daughter, or any of the plunder the Amalekites had taken. David brought everything back.
- The Greek text spells it ten different ways.
The first use
Nothing was missing, young or old, son or daughter, or any of the plunder the Amalekites had taken. David brought everything back.
1 Samuel 30:19נֶעְדַּר־
The first use, in the order of the Old Testament's books.
Where the word stands
Five of the word's eleven uses are in Isaiah.
What the word means
The word carries three meanings: to help, and to hoe, and to lack.
Each meaning, and the words it is translated by
| Meaning | Tagged as | Where |
|---|---|---|
| to helpStrong's entry A | Tagged aslisted under the table | Where1 Samuel 30:19Nothing was missing, young or old, son or daughter… |
| to hoeStrong's entry B | Tagged aslisted under the table | Wherein the ledger below |
| to lackStrong's entry C | Tagged aslisted under the table | Wherein the ledger below |
How the Greek text is glossed, word by word
- and to help1
- he fails1
- helpers of1
- it is missing1
- it was missing1
- it will be hoed1
- it will be missing1
- lacking1
- missing1
- they left lacking1
- they were hoed1
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.
| Word | Written | Meaning | Uses |
|---|---|---|---|
| עֲדַף | adaph | to remain | Uses9 |
All 11, in canonical order
Every use, in order
Every use, grouped by book, with its verse.
10 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
- נֶעְדָּ֔ר2
- וְלַעֲדֹ֖ר1
- יֵעָדֵ֔ר1
- יְעַדְּר֖וּ1
- יֵעָ֣דֵר֔וּן1
- נֶעְדַּר־1
- נֶעְדָּֽר׃ ס1
- נֶעְדָּ֔רָה1
- נֶעְדֶּ֔רֶת1
- עֹדְרֵ֣י1
The grammar of each form
- verb · passive or reflexive (niphal), participle · masculine singular3HVNrmsa
- conjunction (“and”) + preposition + verb · simple (qal), infinitive (“to…”)1HC/R/Vqcc
- verb · passive or reflexive (niphal), yiqtol (imperfect) · 3rd person masculine plural + paragogic nun1HVNi3mp/Sn
- verb · passive or reflexive (niphal), yiqtol (imperfect) · 3rd person masculine singular1HVNi3ms
- verb · passive or reflexive (niphal), qatal (perfect) · 3rd person feminine singular1HVNp3fs
- verb · passive or reflexive (niphal), qatal (perfect) · 3rd person masculine singular1HVNp3ms
- verb · passive or reflexive (niphal), participle · feminine singular1HVNrfsa
- verb · intensive (piel), yiqtol (imperfect) · 3rd person masculine plural1HVpi3mp
- verb · simple (qal), participle · masculine plural · in construct (“…of”)1HVqrmpc
1 Samuel
one use
Nothing was missing, young or old, son or daughter, or any of the plunder the Amalekites had taken. David brought everything back.
- נֶעְדַּר־ne'dar-verb · passive or reflexive (niphal), qatal (perfect) · 3rd person masculine singulartagged: it was missing
2 Samuel
one use
So David and all the people with him got up and crossed the Jordan. By daybreak, there was no one left who had not crossed the Jordan.
- נֶעְדָּ֔רne'darverb · passive or reflexive (niphal), participle · masculine singulartagged: missing
1 Kings
one use
Each month the governors in turn provided food for King Solomon and all who came to his table. They saw to it that nothing was lacking.
- יְעַדְּר֖וּyeaderuverb · intensive (piel), yiqtol (imperfect) · 3rd person masculine pluraltagged: they left lacking
1 Chronicles
two uses
From Zebulun: 50,000 fit for service, trained for battle with all kinds of weapons of war, who with one purpose were devoted to David.
- וְלַעֲדֹ֖רvelaadorconjunction (“and”) + preposition + verb · simple (qal), infinitive (“to…”)tagged: and to help
All these men of war, arrayed for battle, came to Hebron fully determined to make David king over all Israel. And all the rest of the Israelites were of one mind to make David king.
- עֹדְרֵ֣יʾodereiverb · simple (qal), participle · masculine plural · in construct (“…of”)tagged: helpers of
Isaiah
five uses
I will make it a wasteland, neither pruned nor cultivated, and thorns and briers will grow up. I will command the clouds that rain shall not fall on it.”
- יֵעָדֵ֔רyeaderverb · passive or reflexive (niphal), yiqtol (imperfect) · 3rd person masculine singulartagged: it will be hoed
For fear of the briers and thorns, you will no longer traverse the hills once tilled by the hoe; they will become places for oxen to graze and sheep to trample.
- יֵעָ֣דֵר֔וּןyeaderunverb · passive or reflexive (niphal), yiqtol (imperfect) · 3rd person masculine plural + paragogic nuntagged: they were hoed
Search and read the scroll of the LORD: Not one of these will go missing, not one will lack her mate, because He has ordered it by His mouth, and He will gather them by His Spirit.
- נֶעְדָּ֔רָהne'darahverb · passive or reflexive (niphal), qatal (perfect) · 3rd person feminine singulartagged: it will be missing
Lift up your eyes on high: Who created all these? He leads forth the starry host by number; He calls each one by name. Because of His great power and mighty strength, not one of them is missing.
- נֶעְדָּֽר׃ סne'darverb · passive or reflexive (niphal), participle · masculine singulartagged: it is missing
Truth is missing, and whoever turns from evil becomes prey. The LORD looked and was displeased that there was no justice.
- נֶעְדֶּ֔רֶתne'deretverb · passive or reflexive (niphal), participle · feminine singulartagged: lacking
Zephaniah
one use
The LORD within her is righteous; He does no wrong. He applies His justice morning by morning; He does not fail at dawn, yet the unjust know no shame.
- נֶעְדָּ֔רne'darverb · passive or reflexive (niphal), participle · masculine singulartagged: he fails
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 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.