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title: עדר — help · The Tanakh dictionary
description: עדר (lemma:עדר), a word of Biblical Hebrew, used 1 times: help. BDB 1906: vb. help. With 1 verse in Hebrew, word for word and JPS 1917.
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# עדר

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«עדר» in the Tanakh dictionary: **help** — 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:עדר · **BDB:** עָדַר

### Glosses

\[who\].helped (1)

### Meaning (OSHB)

help [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1506/lemma_3a_5e2_5d3_5e8/#m1)

### Meaning (BDB 1906)

vb. help [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1506/lemma_3a_5e2_5d3_5e8/#m2)

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**The whole BDB entry:** vb. prob. (si vera l.) help (Aramaic loan-word, Syriac ܥܕܰܪ, 𝔗 עֲדַר (rare) = Heb. עזר q.v.; \> Thes, assuming meaning arrange, order);— Inf. cstr. לַעֲדֹר 1 Ch 12:34 (Baer Ginsb; van d. H. v 33; this meaning also 𝔊 𝔙); but לַעֲוֹר (cf. v 18, 22, 23. van d. H. v 17, 21, 22), so Kau Buhl; Pt. pl. cstr. עֹדְרֵי מַעֲרָכָה v 39 (van d. H. v 38), read עֹרְכֵי (q.v. v 34) 𝔊 Kau; see ערך.

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Why these entries: BDB: same consonants, part of speech agrees, 1 of its verses cited, 0 words shared with the glosses (7 candidates); OSHB: same consonants, part of speech agrees, 1 words shared with the BDB entry, 0 with the glosses (7 candidates)

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every English meaning of «עדר» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1506/lemma_3a_5e2_5d3_5e8/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.

### In the verses

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[1 Chronicles 12:39](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/1CH.12.39/)

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כָּל־אֵ֜לֶּה אַנְשֵׁ֣י מִלְחָמָה֮ עֹדְרֵ֣י מַעֲרָכָה֒ בְּלֵבָ֤ב שָׁלֵם֙ בָּ֣אוּ חֶבְר֔וֹנָה לְהַמְלִ֥יךְ אֶת־דָּוִ֖יד עַל־כָּל־יִשְׂרָאֵ֑ל וְ֠גַם כָּל־שֵׁרִ֧ית יִשְׂרָאֵ֛ל לֵ֥ב אֶחָ֖ד לְהַמְלִ֥יךְ אֶת־דָּוִֽיד׃

*Word for word:* all these men of.war \[who\].helped of.a.battle.line with a.heart complete they.came to Hebron to make.king (et) David over all Israel and also all the.remainder of.Israel a.heart one to make.king (et) David

*JPS 1917:* All these, being men of war, that could order the battle array, came with a whole heart to Hebron, to make David king over all Israel; and all the rest also of Israel were of one heart to make David king.

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