Lexicon Adar: the twelfth month in the Jewish calendar Original Word: אֲדָרPart of Speech: Noun Transliteration: Adar Phonetic Spelling: (ad-awr') Short Definition: Adar NAS Exhaustive Concordance Word Originof foreign origin Definitionthe twelfth month in the Jewish calendar NASB TranslationAdar (8).
Brown-Driver-Briggs אֲדָר proper noun [masculine] 12th (Babylonian) month = Feb.-Mar. (late Hebrew loan-word, = Babylonian A(d)-daru see Dl Wp. 188, compare Al 3 93, meaning dubious perhaps adâru, be darkened, eclipsed, but see Dl W p. 190) Esther 3:7,12; Esther 8:12; Esther 9:1,15,17,19,21; compare Palmyrene, Nabataean אדר Vog 8 Eut Nab 24. אֲדָר (K§ 57 a) proper name 12th month (Biblical Hebrew id.); — Ezra 6:15.
Strong's Adar Probably of foreign derivation; perhaps meaning fire; Adar, the 12th Hebrew month -- Adar. |
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