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Hebrew verb · H6937

קָדַר

qadarkaw-dar'

be dark

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

Concordance spelling: qâdar

Word page · Part of the concordance, one page for every word of the Hebrew and Greek text. Strong's H6937is this word's number in James Strong's 1890 index of the King James Bible.

  • 7 of 39
    Old Testament books
  • 14
    spellings

The definition in full

Strong's key (1890) · H6937

to be ashy, i.e. darkcolored; by implication, to mourn (in sackcloth or sordid garments)

The King James renders it: be black(-ish), be (make) dark(-en), [idiom] heavily, (cause to) mourn.

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

qadar is rendered "be dark". It stands 17 times in the Hebrew text, across seven books.

  • Four of the uses stand in Psalms, more than in any other book.
  • Its first use in canonical order opens the ledger below.1 Kings 18:45Meanwhile, the sky grew dark with clouds and wind, and a heavy rain began to fall. So Ahab rode away and went to Jezreel.
  • The Greek text spells it fourteen different ways.

The first use

Meanwhile, the sky grew dark with clouds and wind, and a heavy rain began to fall. So Ahab rode away and went to Jezreel.

1 Kings 18:45הִֽתְקַדְּרוּ֙

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

Where the word stands

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

The other 32 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

  • mourning4
  • and I made mourn1
  • and I will darken1
  • and it will be dark1
  • and mourners1
  • and they will be dark1
  • being dark1
  • I am in mourning1
  • I will darken them1
  • that are dark1
  • they are in mourning1
  • they become dark1

and 2 more, 17 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.

קָדַשׁqadashto consecrate: consecateUses171
קָדַםqadamto meetUses26
קָדַדqadadto bowUses15
קָדַחqadachto kindleUses5

All 17, in canonical order

Every use, in order

Every use, grouped by book, with its verse.

14 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

  • קֹדֵ֥ר4
  • אַקְדִּירֵ֖ם1
  • הַקֹּדְרִ֥ים1
  • הִֽתְקַדְּרוּ֙1
  • וָאַקְדִּ֤ר1
  • וְהִקְדַּרְתִּ֖י1
  • וְקָדַ֥ר1
  • וְקָדְר֥וּ1
  • וְ֝קֹדְרִ֗ים1
  • קֹדֵ֣ר1
  • קָדְר֣וּ1
  • קָדָ֔רוּ1

and 2 more spellings in the ledger below.

The grammar of each form

  • verb · simple (qal), participle · masculine singular5HVqrmsa
  • verb · simple (qal), qatal (perfect) · 3rd person common plural3HVqp3cp
  • Hc/Vhq1cs1Hc/Vhq1cs
  • Hc/Vhw1cs1Hc/Vhw1cs
  • Hc/Vqq3cp1Hc/Vqq3cp
  • Hc/Vqq3ms1Hc/Vqq3ms
  • conjunction (“and”) + verb · simple (qal), participle · masculine plural1HC/Vqrmpa
  • the definite article (“the”) + verb · simple (qal), participle · masculine plural1HTd/Vqrmpa
  • verb · causative (hiphil), yiqtol (imperfect) · 1st person common singular + pronoun suffix · 3rd person masculine plural1HVhi1cs/Sp3mp
  • verb · simple (qal), qatal (perfect) · 1st person common singular1HVqp1cs
  • verb · reflexive (hithpael), qatal (perfect) · 3rd person common plural1HVtp3cp

1 Kings

one use
  • Meanwhile, the sky grew dark with clouds and wind, and a heavy rain began to fall. So Ahab rode away and went to Jezreel.

    1 Kings 18:45

    • הִֽתְקַדְּרוּ֙hitkaderuverb · reflexive (hithpael), qatal (perfect) · 3rd person common pluraltagged: they grew dark

Job

three uses
  • He sets the lowly on high, so that mourners are lifted to safety.

    Job 5:11

    • וְ֝קֹדְרִ֗יםvekoderimconjunction (“and”) + verb · simple (qal), participle · masculine pluraltagged: and mourners
  • darkened because of the ice and the inflow of melting snow,

    Job 6:16

    • הַקֹּדְרִ֥יםhakoderimthe definite article (“the”) + verb · simple (qal), participle · masculine pluraltagged: that are dark
  • I go about blackened, but not by the sun. I stand up in the assembly and cry for help.

    Job 30:28

    • קֹדֵ֣רkoderverb · simple (qal), participle · masculine singulartagged: being dark

Psalms

four uses
  • I paced about as for my friend or brother; I was bowed down with grief, like one mourning for his mother.

    Psalms 35:14

    • קֹדֵ֥רkoderverb · simple (qal), participle · masculine singulartagged: mourning
  • I am bent and brought low; all day long I go about mourning.

    Psalms 38:6

    • קֹדֵ֥רkoderverb · simple (qal), participle · masculine singulartagged: mourning
  • I say to God my Rock, “Why have You forgotten me? Why must I walk in sorrow because of the enemy’s oppression?”

    Psalms 42:9

    • קֹדֵ֥רkoderverb · simple (qal), participle · masculine singulartagged: mourning
  • For You are the God of my refuge. Why have You rejected me? Why must I walk in sorrow because of the enemy’s oppression?

    Psalms 43:2

    • קֹדֵ֥רkoderverb · simple (qal), participle · masculine singulartagged: mourning

Jeremiah

three uses
  • Therefore the earth will mourn and the heavens above will grow dark. I have spoken, I have planned, and I will not relent or turn back.”

    Jeremiah 4:28

    • וְקָדְר֥וּvekaderuHc/Vqq3cptagged: and they will be dark
  • For the brokenness of the daughter of my people I am crushed. I mourn; horror has gripped me.

    Jeremiah 8:21

    • קָדַ֕רְתִּיkadartiverb · simple (qal), qatal (perfect) · 1st person common singulartagged: I am in mourning
  • “Judah mourns and her gates languish. Her people wail for the land, and a cry goes up from Jerusalem.

    Jeremiah 14:2

    • קָדְר֣וּkaderuverb · simple (qal), qatal (perfect) · 3rd person common pluraltagged: they are in mourning

Ezekiel

three uses
  • This is what the Lord GOD says: ‘On the day it was brought down to Sheol, I caused mourning. I covered the deep because of it; I held back its rivers; its abundant waters were restrained. I made Lebanon mourn for it, and all the trees of the field fainted because of it.

    Ezekiel 31:15

    • וָאַקְדִּ֤רvaakdirHc/Vhw1cstagged: and I made mourn
  • When I extinguish you, I will cover the heavens and darken their stars. I will cover the sun with a cloud, and the moon will not give its light.

    Ezekiel 32:7

    • וְהִקְדַּרְתִּ֖יvehikdartiHc/Vhq1cstagged: and I will darken
  • All the shining lights in the heavens I will darken over you, and I will bring darkness upon your land,’ declares the Lord GOD.

    Ezekiel 32:8

    • אַקְדִּירֵ֖םʾakdiremverb · causative (hiphil), yiqtol (imperfect) · 1st person common singular + pronoun suffix · 3rd person masculine pluraltagged: I will darken them

Joel

two uses
  • Before them the earth quakes; the heavens tremble. The sun and moon grow dark, and the stars lose their brightness.

    Joel 2:10

    • קָדָ֔רוּkadaruverb · simple (qal), qatal (perfect) · 3rd person common pluraltagged: they become dark
  • The sun and moon will grow dark, and the stars will no longer shine.

    Joel 3:15

    • קָדָ֑רוּkadaruverb · simple (qal), qatal (perfect) · 3rd person common pluraltagged: they have become dark

Micah

one use
  • Therefore night will come over you without visions, and darkness without divination. The sun will set on these prophets, and the daylight will turn black over them.

    Micah 3:6

    • וְקָדַ֥רvekadarHc/Vqq3mstagged: and it will be dark

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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