H143 - אֲדָר (ʼĂdâr)

H143 אֲדָר (ʼĂdâr) ad-awr'

Hebrew

Noun

Quick Definition

Adar

Biblical Persons & Places

Adar Name of the 12th month

Name of the 12th month; called Adar (אֲדָר); or Adar (Aramiac אֲדָר)

Strong's Definition

Adar, the 12th Hebrew month

Derivation: probably of foreign derivation; perhaps meaning fire;

KJV Usage: Adar.

Outline of Biblical Usage

Adar = "glorious"

1) twelfth month, corresponding to modern March-April

STEPBible — Tyndale Abridged Hebrew Lexicon

Adar = "glorious" twelfth month, corresponding to modern March-April Also named: a.dar (אֲדָר "Adar" H0144)

Brown-Driver-Briggs Hebrew Lexicon

אֲדָר ădâr BDB Definition: Adar = glorious 1) twelfth month, corresponding to modern March-April Part of Speech: noun A Related Word by BDB/Strongs Number: probably of foreign derivation Total KJV Occurrences: 7

Bible Occurrences (8)

3:7 3:13 8:12 9:1 9:15 9:17 9:19 9:21

Esther 3:7

In the twelfth... year of King Xerxes, in the first month, the month of Nisan, the Pur (that is, the lot) was cast before Haman to determine a day... and month.... [And the lot fell on] the twelfth...... month, the month of Adar.

Esther 3:13

And the letters were sent by couriers to each of the royal provinces with the order to destroy, kill, and annihilate all the Jews— young and old, women and children— and to plunder their possessions on a single day, the thirteenth... day of Adar, the twelfth...... month.

Esther 8:12

The single day [appointed] throughout all the provinces of King Xerxes [was] the thirteenth... day of the twelfth...... month, the month of Adar.

Esther 9:1

On the thirteenth... day of the twelfth... month,... the month of Adar, the king’s command and edict were to be executed. On this day the enemies of the Jews had hoped to overpower them, but [their plan] was overturned...... [and] the Jews overpowered those who hated them.

Esther 9:15

On the fourteenth... day of the month of Adar, the Jews in Susa came together again and put to death three hundred men [there], but they did not lay a hand on the plunder.

Esther 9:17

This was done on the thirteenth... day of the month of Adar, and on the fourteenth day... they rested, making it a day of feasting and joy.

Esther 9:19

This is why... the rural Jews, who live in the villages..., observe the fourteenth day... of the month of Adar as a day of joy and feasting. It is a holiday... for sending gifts to one another.

Esther 9:21

to establish among them an annual...... celebration on the fourteenth... and fifteenth... days of the month of Adar