Lexical Summary Adar: the twelfth month in the Jewish calendar Original Word: אֲדָרTransliteration: Adar Phonetic Spelling: (ad-awr') Part of Speech: Noun Short Definition: the twelfth month in the Jewish calendar Meaning: the twelfth month in the Jewish calendar Strong's Concordance Adar Probably of foreign derivation; perhaps meaning fire; Adar, the 12th Hebrew month -- Adar. Brown-Driver-Briggs H143. Adar אֲדָר proper noun [masculine] 12th (Babylonian) month = Feb.-Mar. (late Hebrew loan-word, = Babylonian A(d)-daru see DlWp. 188, compare Al 3 93, meaning dubious perhaps adâru, be darkened, eclipsed, but see DlW p. 190) Esther 3:7, 12; 8:12; 9:1, 15, 17, 19, 21; compare Palmyrene, Nabataean אדר Vog8 EutNab 24. אֲדָר (K§ 57 a) proper name 12th month (Biblical Hebrew id.); — Ezra 6:15. |
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