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Adar

Meaning of “Adar”

Sense 1: Adar, the twelfth month named in Ezra and Esther. Sense 2: The place Adar and the final component of Ataroth-adar in Joshua.

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KJV context and cross-referencesWebster 1828
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First occurrence: Joshua 15:3

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Joshua 15:3
And it went out to the south side to Maaleh-acrabbim, and passed along to Zin, and ascended up on the south side unto Kadesh-barnea, and passed along to Hezron, and went up to Adar, and fetched a compass to Karkaa:
1 word occurrence in this verse
The 1611 reading & marginal notes
1611 witness · Joshua 15:3 · retained source text

And it went out to the Southside to Maalehacrabbim, and passed along to Zin, and ascended vp on the Southside vnto Kadesh-Barnea: and passed along to Hezron, and went vp to Adar, and fetched a compasse to Karkaa.

1611 marginal noteOr, the going vp to Acrabbim

Joshua 18:13
And the border went over from thence toward Luz, to the side of Luz, which is Beth-el, southward; and the border descended to Ataroth-adar, near the hill that lieth on the south side of the nether Beth-horon.
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The 1611 reading
1611 witness · Joshua 18:13 · retained source text

And the border went ouer from thence toward Luz, to the side of Luz, (which is Bethel) Southward, and the border descended to Ataroth-Adar, neere the hill that lieth on the South side of the nether Beth-horon.

Ezra 6:15
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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The 1611 reading
1611 witness · Ezra 6:15 · retained source text

And this honse was finished on the third day of the month Adar, which was in the sixt yere of the reigne of Darius the king.

Esther 3:7
¶ In the first month, that is, the month Nisan, in the twelfth year of king Ahasuerus, they cast Pur, that is, the lot, before Haman from day to day, and from month to month, to the twelfth month, that is, the month adar.
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The 1611 reading
1611 witness · Esther 3:7 · retained source text

¶ In the first moneth (that is, the moneth Nisan) in the twelfth yeere of king Ahasuerus, they cast Pur, that is, the lot, before Haman, from day to day, and from moneth to moneth, to the twelfth moneth, that is the moneth Adar.

Esther 3:13
And the letters were sent by posts into all the king’s provinces, to destroy, to kill, and to cause to perish, all Jews, both young and old, little children and women, in one day, even upon the thirteenth day of the twelfth month, which is the month adar, and to take the spoil of them for a prey.
1 word occurrence in this verse
The 1611 reading
1611 witness · Esther 3:13 · retained source text

And the letters were sent by posts into all the kings prouinces, to destroy, to kill, and to cause to perish all Iewes, both yong and olde, litle children and women, in one day, euen vpon the thirteenth day of the twelfth moneth (which is the moneth Adar) and to take the spoile of them for a pray.

Esther 8:12
Upon one day in all the provinces of king Ahasuerus, namely, upon the thirteenth day of the twelfth month, which is the month adar.
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The 1611 reading
1611 witness · Esther 8:12 · retained source text

Upon one day, in all the prouinces of king Ahasuerus, namely vpon the thirteenth day of the twelfth moneth, which is the moneth Adar.

Esther 9:1
NOW in the twelfth month, that is, the month adar, on the thirteenth day of the same, when the king’s commandment and his decree drew near to be put in execution, in the day that the enemies of the Jews hoped to have power over them, (though it was turned to the contrary, that the Jews had rule over them that hated them;)
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The 1611 reading
1611 witness · Esther 9:1 · retained source text

¶ Now in the twelfth month (that is the moneth Adar) on the thirteenth day of the same, when the Kings commaundement and his decree drew neere to bee put in execution, in the day that the enemies of the Iewes hoped to haue power ouer them: (though it was turned to the contrary, that the Iewes had rule ouer them that hated them.)

Esther 9:15
For the Jews that were in Shushan gathered themselves together on the fourteenth day also of the month adar, and slew three hundred men at Shushan; but on the prey they laid not their hand.
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The 1611 reading
1611 witness · Esther 9:15 · retained source text

For the Iewes that were in Shushan, gathered themselues together on the fourteenth day also of the moneth Adar, and slewe three hundred men at Shushan: but on the pray they laid not their hand.

Esther 9:17
On the thirteenth day of the month adar; and on the fourteenth day of the same rested they, and made it a day of feasting and gladness.
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The 1611 reading & marginal notes
1611 witness · Esther 9:17 · retained source text

On the thirteenth day of the moneth Adar, and on the fourteenth day of the same, rested they, and made it a day of feasting and gladnes.

1611 marginal noteHeb. in it.

Esther 9:19
Therefore the Jews of the villages, that dwelt in the unwalled towns, made the fourteenth day of the month adar a day of gladness and feasting, and a good day, and of sending portions one to another.
1 word occurrence in this verse
The 1611 reading
1611 witness · Esther 9:19 · retained source text

Therefore the Iewes of the villages, that dwelt in the vnwalled townes, made the foureteenth day of the moneth Adar, a day of gladnesse and feasting, and a good day, and of sending portions one to another.

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A Hebrew month, answering to the latter part of February, and the beginning of March, the 12th of the sacred and 6th of the civil year; so named to become glorious, from the exuberance of vegetation, in that month, in Egypt and Palestine.

Webster 1828 facsimile, volume 1, leaf 123