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title: קָדַר — be dark · The Tanakh dictionary
description: קָדַר (6937), a word of Biblical Hebrew, used 17 times: be dark. BDB 1906: vb. be dark. With 2 verses in Hebrew, word for word and JPS 1917.
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# קָדַר

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«קָדַר» in the Tanakh dictionary: **be dark** — how often it is used, MACULA's glosses, its meanings in the printed dictionaries and why they were chosen, and 2 verses in layers.

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**Used:** 17 times · **Key:** 6937 · **BDB:** קָדַר

### Glosses

mourning (4); I (1); I.am.in.mourning (1)

### Meaning (OSHB)

be dark [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1511/6937/#m1)

### Meaning (BDB 1906)

vb. be dark [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1511/6937/#m2)

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**The whole BDB entry:** vb. be dark (dull-coloured, cf. Arabic قَذُرَ / قَذِرَ be dirty (on ذ = ד v. NöZMG xi (1886), 729); NH Hiph. (of face) shew gloom; 𝔗 J קְדַר be dark);— Pf. consec. וְקָדַר Mi 3:6; 1 s. קָדַרְתִּי Je 8:21, etc.; Pt. קֹדֵר ψ 35:14 +; pl. קֹדְרִים Jb 5:11; 6:16;—be dark, of sky Je 4:28 (leaden-coloured, as with clouds, v. Hithp.), of sun and moon Jo 2:10; 4:15; fig. of lack of revelation from י׳, וְק׳ עֲלֵיהֶם הַיּוֹם Mi 3:6; of turbid stream Jb 6:16; fig. of mourning (prob. be squalid, of neglected person and dress of mourner, cf. 2 S 19:25) Je 8:21; 14:2 (לָאָרֶץ, metaph. of gates); Jb 5:11; 30:28 (בְּלֹא חַמָּה), ψ 35:14; 38:7; 42:10; 43:2. darken: Pf. 1 s. consec. וְהִקְדַּרְתִּי Ez 32:7 (obj. stars), cf. Impf. 1 s. sf. אַקְדִּירֵם עָלֶיךָ 32:8. cause to mourn וָאַקְדִּר עָלָיו לְבָנוֹן 31:15. Pf. 3 pl. וְהַשָּׁמַיִם הִתְקַדְּרוּ עָבִים 1 K 18:45 and the heavens grew dark with clouds.

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Why these entries: BDB: headword, part of speech agrees, 17 of its verses cited, 1 words shared with the glosses, lists its Strong's number (2 candidates); OSHB: headword, part of speech agrees, 1 words shared with the BDB entry, 1 with the glosses (2 candidates)

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every English meaning of «קָדַר» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1511/6937/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.

### In the verses

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[Job 6:16](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/JOB.6.16/)

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הַקֹּדְרִ֥ים מִנִּי־קָ֑רַח עָ֝לֵ֗ימוֹ יִתְעַלֶּם־שָֽׁלֶג׃

*Word for word:* (the).\[which are\].dark from ice over them it.hides.itself snow

*JPS 1917:* Which are black by reason of the ice, and wherein the snow hideth itself;

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[Job 5:11](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/JOB.5.11/)

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לָשׂ֣וּם שְׁפָלִ֣ים לְמָר֑וֹם וְ֝קֹדְרִ֗ים שָׂ֣גְבוּ יֶֽשַׁע׃

*Word for word:* to set lowly.\[people\] to a.high.place and mourners they.are.high safety

*JPS 1917:* So that He setteth up on high those that are low, and those that mourn are exalted to safety.

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