עָדַר adar
Hebrew word for “to lack” · Strong’s H5737 · used 11 times in 11 verses
Meaning
1) to be lacking, fail; 1a)(Niphal); 1b1) to be lacking; 1b1) to leave lacking; 1b) (Piel) to leave lacking
Senses in the lexicon
- to lack (7)
- to help (2)
- to hoe (2)
How it is translated
Glosses given for adar in context, with how often each is used:
- missing 3
- left lacking 1
- will be missing 1
- lacking 1
- fails 1
- help 1
- helpers 1
- will be hoed 1
- hoed ! 1
Where it is used
Chapters where it is used most
1 Chronicles 12 (2), 1 Samuel 30 (1), 2 Samuel 17 (1), 1 Kings 4 (1), Isaiah 5 (1), Isaiah 7 (1), Isaiah 34 (1), Isaiah 40 (1), Isaiah 59 (1), Zephaniah 3 (1)
Forms
- נעדר 4
- יעדרו 1
- נעדרה 1
- נעדרת 1
- ולעדר 1
- עדרי 1
- יעדר 1
- יעדרון 1
Words used with it
Words that share verses with adar more often than their overall frequency would suggest:
- שַׁיִת shayit “thornbush” 2
- שָׁמִיר shamir “thorn” 2
- אוֹר or “light” 2
- אֵלֶּה elleh “these” 3
- אֶחָד echad “one” 3
- דָּוִד david “David” 3
- בֹּקֶר boqer “morning” 2
- מִלְחָמָה milchamah “battle” 2
- מִשְׁפָּט mishpat “justice” 2
- צָבָא tsava “Hosts” 2
- צָוָה tsavah “to command” 2
- לֵב lev “heart” 2
Key verses
The verses using adar that are most connected by cross-references (King James Version):
- 1 Samuel 30:19 — And there was nothing lacking to them, neither small nor great, neither sons nor daughters, neither spoil, nor any thing that they had taken to them: David…
- 2 Samuel 17:22 — Then David arose, and all the people that were with him, and they passed over Jordan: by the morning light there lacked not one of them that was not gone over…
- 1 Kings 4:27 — And those officers provided victual for king Solomon, and for all that came unto king Solomon’s table, every man in his month: they lacked nothing.
- 1 Chronicles 12:33 — Of Zebulun, such as went forth to battle, expert in war, with all instruments of war, fifty thousand, which could keep rank: they were not of double heart.
- 1 Chronicles 12:38 — All these men of war, that could keep rank, came with a perfect heart to Hebron, to make David king over all Israel: and all the rest also of Israel were of…
- Isaiah 5:6 — And I will lay it waste: it shall not be pruned, nor digged; but there shall come up briers and thorns: I will also command the clouds that they rain no rain…
- Isaiah 7:25 — And on all hills that shall be digged with the mattock, there shall not come thither the fear of briers and thorns: but it shall be for the sending forth of…
- Isaiah 34:16 — Seek ye out of the book of the LORD, and read: no one of these shall fail, none shall want her mate: for my mouth it hath commanded, and his spirit it hath…
- Isaiah 40:26 — Lift up your eyes on high, and behold who hath created these things, that bringeth out their host by number: he calleth them all by names by the greatness of…
- Isaiah 59:15 — Yea, truth faileth; and he that departeth from evil maketh himself a prey: and the LORD saw it, and it displeased him that there was no judgment.
- Zephaniah 3:5 — The just LORD is in the midst thereof; he will not do iniquity: every morning doth he bring his judgment to light, he faileth not; but the unjust knoweth no…
See all 11 verses in the Word Atlas
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.