ʼĂdâr — H143

Definition

noun

Adar, the 12th Hebrew month

1. Adar = "glorious"
2. twelfth month, corresponding to modern March-April

Usually translated as

Adar

Origin

probably of foreign derivation; perhaps meaning fire

Occurrences

ʼĂdâr occurs 8 times in the King James.

Distribution of the word across the Bible: Esther (8)

• Esther 3:7 — In the first month, that is, the month Nisan, in the twelfth year of king Ahasuerus, they cast Pur, that is, the lot, before Haman from day to day, and from month to month, to the twelfth month, that is, the month Adar (אֲדָֽר).
• Esther 3:13 — And the letters were sent by posts into all the king’s provinces, to destroy, to kill, and to cause to perish, all Jews, both young and old, little children and women, in one day, even upon the thirteenth day of the twelfth month, which is the month Adar (אֲדָ֑ר), and to take the spoil of them for a prey.
• Esther 8:12 — Upon one day in all the provinces of king Ahasuerus, namely, upon the thirteenth day of the twelfth month, which is the month Adar (אֲדָֽר).
• Esther 9:1 — Now in the twelfth month, that is, the month Adar (אֲדָ֗ר), on the thirteenth day of the same, when the king’s commandment and his decree drew near to be put in execution, in the day that the enemies of the Jews hoped to have power over them, (though it was turned to the contrary, that the Jews had rule over them that hated them;)
• Esther 9:15 — For the Jews that were in Shushan gathered themselves together on the fourteenth day also of the month Adar (אֲדָ֔ר), and slew three hundred men at Shushan; but on the prey they laid not their hand.
• Esther 9:17 — On the thirteenth day of the month Adar (אֲדָ֑ר); and on the fourteenth day of the same rested they, and made it a day of feasting and gladness.
• Esther 9:19 — Therefore the Jews of the villages, that dwelt in the unwalled towns, made the fourteenth day of the month Adar (אֲדָ֔ר) a day of gladness and feasting, and a good day, and of sending portions one to another.
• Esther 9:21 — To stablish this among them, that they should keep the fourteenth day of the month Adar (אֲדָ֔ר), and the fifteenth day of the same, yearly,