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title: אֲדָר — Adar · The Biblical Aramaic dictionary
description: אֲדָר (lemma:אֲדָר), a word of Biblical Aramaic, used 1 times: Adar. BDB 1906: pr. With 1 verse in Aramaic, word for word and JPS 1917.
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# אֲדָר

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«אֲדָר» in the Biblical Aramaic dictionary: **Adar** — how often it is used, MACULA's glosses, its meanings in the printed dictionaries and why they were chosen, and 1 verse in layers.

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**Used:** 1 times · **Key:** lemma:אֲדָר · **BDB:** אֲדָר

### Glosses

of.Adar (1)

### Meaning (OSHB)

Adar [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/aramaic/1488/lemma_3a_5d0_5b2_5d3_5b8_5e8/#m1)

### Meaning (BDB 1906)

pr. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/aramaic/1488/lemma_3a_5d0_5b2_5d3_5b8_5e8/#m2)

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**The whole BDB entry:** (K§ 57a) n. pr. 12th month (BH id.);—Ezr 6:15.

### Jastrow 1903

אֲדָר: the cloudy Adar First Adar Second Adar [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/aramaic/1488/lemma_3a_5d0_5b2_5d3_5b8_5e8/#m3)

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**The whole Jastrow entry:** Assyr. the cloudy; v. Fred. Delitzsch, The Hebr. Lang. p. 15) Adar, the twelfth month of the Jewish calendar, containing twenty nine days, and varying between the eleventh of February and the twenty eighth of March. In leap years: א׳ רִאשֹׁון First Adar, of thirty days duration between the thirty first of January and the tenth of March; א׳ שֵׁנִי Second Adar, of twenty nine days, between the second of March and the eighth of April. Targ. II Esth. IX, 29; a. fr.—Meg. I, 4; a. fr.—Pl. אֲדָרִים, אֲדָרִין. R. Hash. 19ᵇ

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Why these entries: BDB: headword, part of speech agrees, 1 of its verses cited, 0 words shared with the glosses, lists its Strong's number (2 candidates); OSHB: headword, part of speech agrees, 0 words shared with the BDB entry, 1 with the glosses (2 candidates); Jastrow: headword, part of speech differs, 0 of its verses cited, 1 words shared with the glosses (13 candidates)

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every English meaning of «אֲדָר» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/aramaic/1488/lemma_3a_5d0_5b2_5d3_5b8_5e8/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.

### In the verses

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[Ezra 6:15](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/EZR.6.15/)

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וְשֵׁיצִיא֙ בַּיְתָ֣ה דְנָ֔ה עַ֛ד י֥וֹם תְּלָתָ֖ה לִירַ֣ח אֲדָ֑ר דִּי־הִ֣יא שְׁנַת־שֵׁ֔ת לְמַלְכ֖וּת דָּרְיָ֥וֶשׁ מַלְכָּֽא׃פ

*Word for word:* and it.was.finished the house this until day three of the.month of.Adar which it \[was\].year six of the.reign of.Darius the king

*JPS 1917:* And this house was finished on the third day of the month Adar, which was in the sixth year of the reign of Darius the king.

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