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title: קֵדָר — Kedar · The Tanakh dictionary
description: קֵדָר (6938), a word of Biblical Hebrew, used 12 times: Kedar. BDB 1906: n.pr.gent. With 2 verses in Hebrew, word for word and JPS 1917.
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# קֵדָר

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«קֵדָר» in the Tanakh dictionary: **Kedar** — 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:** 12 times · **Key:** 6938 · **BDB:** קֵדָר

### Glosses

Kedar (6); of.Kedar (6)

### Meaning (OSHB)

Kedar [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1511/6938/#m1)

### Meaning (BDB 1906)

n.pr.gent. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1511/6938/#m2)

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**The whole BDB entry:** n.pr.gent. (swarthy? black-tented?); Κηδαρ: tribe of nomads in Arabic desert Is 21:16; 42:11 (c. vb. fem.), 60:7, Je 2:10; 49:28(×2); Ez 27:21; בְּנֵי־ק׳ Is 21:17; אָהֳלֵי ק׳ ψ 120:5 Ct 1:5 (made of black goat-skins JacobBeduinenleben (2), 41 or black woven stuff DoughtyArab. Des. i. 224 f.; sim. of swarthy hue). ancestor of 1, son of Ishmael, Gn 25:13 = 1 Ch 1:29.—Cf. Assyrian Ḳidru COT Gn 25:13, PlinNH v. 11 (12) Cedrei; also Sab. tribename קדר Hal623 (cf. DHMZMG xxxvii (1883), 14).

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Why these entries: BDB: headword, part of speech agrees, 11 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)

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every English meaning of «קֵדָר» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1511/6938/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.

### In the verses

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[Psalms 120:5](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/PSA.120.5/)

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אֽוֹיָה־לִ֭י כִּי־גַ֣רְתִּי מֶ֑שֶׁךְ שָׁ֝כַ֗נְתִּי עִֽם־אָהֳלֵ֥י קֵדָֽר׃

*Word for word:* woe! to me (dm) I.have.sojourned Meshech I.have.dwelt with the.tents of.Kedar

*JPS 1917:* Woe is me, that I sojourn with Meshech, that I dwell beside the tents of Kedar!

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[1 Chronicles 1:29](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/1CH.1.29/)

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אֵ֖לֶּה תֹּלְדוֹתָ֑ם בְּכ֤וֹר יִשְׁמָעֵאל֙ נְבָי֔וֹת וְקֵדָ֥ר וְאַדְבְּאֵ֖ל וּמִבְשָֽׂם׃

*Word for word:* these generations \[were\].their the.firstborn of.Ishmael \[was\].Nebaioth and Kedar and Adbeel and Mibsam

*JPS 1917:* These are their generations: the first-born of Ishmael, Nebaioth; then Kedar, and Adbeel, and Mibsam,

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