ʼedreʻîy — H154

Definition

locative proper noun

Edrei, the name of two places in Palestine

1. Edrei = "goodly pasture"
2. a chief city of Bashan, north of Jabbok river

Usually translated as

Edrei

Origin

from the equivalent of H153; mighty

• Derived from ʼedrâʻ (H153)

Occurrences

ʼedreʻîy occurs 8 times in the King James.

Distribution of the word across the Bible: Numbers (1), Deuteronomy (3), Joshua (4)

• Numbers 21:33 — And they turned and went up by the way of Bashan: and Og the king of Bashan went out against them, he, and all his people, to the battle at Edrei (אֶדְרֶֽעִי).
• Deuteronomy 1:4 — After he had slain Sihon the king of the Amorites, which dwelt in Heshbon, and Og the king of Bashan, which dwelt at Astaroth in Edrei (בְּאֶדְרֶֽעִי):
• Deuteronomy 3:1 — Then we turned, and went up the way to Bashan: and Og the king of Bashan came out against us, he and all his people, to battle at Edrei (אֶדְרֶֽעִי).
• Deuteronomy 3:10 — All the cities of the plain, and all Gilead, and all Bashan, unto Salchah and Edrei (וְאֶדְרֶ֑עִי), cities of the kingdom of Og in Bashan.
• Joshua 12:4 — And the coast of Og king of Bashan, which was of the remnant of the giants, that dwelt at Ashtaroth and at Edrei (וּבְאֶדְרֶֽעִי),
• Joshua 13:12 — All the kingdom of Og in Bashan, which reigned in Ashtaroth and in Edrei (וּבְאֶדְרֶ֑עִי), who remained of the remnant of the giants: for these did Moses smite, and cast them out.
• Joshua 13:31 — And half Gilead, and Ashtaroth, and Edrei (וְאֶדְרֶ֔עִי), cities of the kingdom of Og in Bashan, were pertaining unto the children of Machir the son of Manasseh, even to the one half of the children of Machir by their families.
• Joshua 19:37 — And Kedesh, and Edrei (וְאֶדְרֶ֖עִי), and En-hazor,