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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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Esther 9:21
To stablish this among them, that they should keep the fourteenth day of the month adar, and the fifteenth day of the same, yearly,
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1611 witness · Esther 9:21 · retained source text

To stablish this among them, that they should keepe the fourteenth day of the moneth Adar, and the fifteenth day of the same, yeerely:

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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