Strong's Hebrew: 6938. קֵדָר (Qedar) -- perhaps "swarthy," a son of Ishmael, also his desc.

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Lexicon

Qedar: perhaps "swarthy," a son of Ishmael, also his desc.

Original Word: קֵדָר
Part of Speech: proper name, of a people
Transliteration: Qedar
Phonetic Spelling: (kay-dawr')
Short Definition: Kedar

NAS Exhaustive Concordance

Word Origin
from qadar
Definition
perhaps "swarthy," a son of Ishmael, also his desc.
NASB Translation
Kedar (12).

Brown-Driver-Briggs

קֵדָר proper name, of a people (swarthy? black-tented?); Κηδαρ:

1 tribe of nomads in Arabian desert Isaiah 21:16; Isaiah 42:11 (with verb feminine), Isaiah 60:7, Jeremiah 2:10; Jeremiah 49:28 (twice in verse); Ezekiel 27:21; ׳בְּנֵיקֿ Isaiah 21:17; ׳אָהֳלֵי ק Psalm 120:5; Songs 1:5 (made of black goat-skins Jacob^{Beduinenleben (2), 41} or black woven stuff Doughty^{Arab. Des. i. 224 f.}; simile of swarthy hue).

2 ancestor of

1, son of Ishmael, Genesis 25:13 = 1 Chronicles 1:29. — compare Assyrian †idru COT^{Genesis 25:13}, Plin^{NH see 11 -12} Cedrei; also Sabean tribe-name קדר Hal⁶²³ (compare DHM^{ZMG xxxvii (1883), 14}).

Strong's

Kedar

From qadar; dusky (of the skin or the tent); Kedar, a son of Ishmael; also (collectively) Bedouin (as his descendants or representatives) -- Kedar.

see HEBREW qadar