אוֹדָה odah
Hebrew word for “because” · Strong’s H182 · used 11 times in 10 verses
Meaning
1) cause; 1a) cause, reason for; 1b) the occasion of
How it is translated
Glosses given for odah in context, with how often each is used:
- causes 11
Where it is used
Chapters where it is used most
Genesis 21 (2), Genesis 26 (1), Exodus 18 (1), Numbers 12 (1), Numbers 13 (1), Joshua 14 (1), Judges 6 (1), 2 Samuel 13 (1), Jeremiah 3 (1)
Forms
- אדות 6
- אודת 3
- אדותי 1
- אדותיך 1
Words used with it
Words that share verses with odah more often than their overall frequency would suggest:
- בְּאֵר beer “well” 2
- מֹשֶׁה mosheh “Moses” 3
- אַבְרָהָם avraham “Abraham” 2
- מָצָא matsa “to find” 2
- מַי mayim “water” 2
- עֶבֶד eved “servant/slave” 2
- יְהוּדָה yehudah “Judah” 2
- שָׁלַח shalach “to send” 2
- דָבַר davar “to speak” 2
- דָּבָר davar “word” 2
Key verses
The verses using odah that are most connected by cross-references (King James Version):
- Genesis 21:11 — And the thing was very grievous in Abraham’s sight because of his son.
- Genesis 21:25 — And Abraham reproved Abimelech because of a well of water, which Abimelech’s servants had violently taken away.
- Genesis 26:32 — And it came to pass the same day, that Isaac’s servants came, and told him concerning the well which they had digged, and said unto him, We have found water.
- Exodus 18:8 — And Moses told his father in law all that the LORD had done unto Pharaoh and to the Egyptians for Israel’s sake, and all the travail that had come upon them by…
- Numbers 12:1 — And Miriam and Aaron spake against Moses because of the Ethiopian woman whom he had married: for he had married an Ethiopian woman.
- Numbers 13:24 — The place was called the brook Eshcol, because of the cluster of grapes which the children of Israel cut down from thence.
- Joshua 14:6 — Then the children of Judah came unto Joshua in Gilgal: and Caleb the son of Jephunneh the Kenezite said unto him, Thou knowest the thing that the LORD said…
- Judges 6:7 — And it came to pass, when the children of Israel cried unto the LORD because of the Midianites,
- 2 Samuel 13:16 — And she said unto him, There is no cause: this evil in sending me away is greater than the other that thou didst unto me. But he would not hearken unto her.
- Jeremiah 3:8 — And I saw, when for all the causes whereby backsliding Israel committed adultery I had put her away, and given her a bill of divorce; yet her treacherous…
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Hebrew and Greek text, tagging, glosses and lexicon definitions: STEPBible.org, Tyndale House Cambridge (TAHOT, TAGNT, TBESH, TBESG; CC BY 4.0), adapted. Counts follow King James verse numbering; a word counts each time it is written.