ada · pass on, adorn

What it means

ada (עָדָה) is a Hebrew word of the Bible that means “pass on, adorn”.

To pass, to move on through a place. In another form, to adorn oneself.

How to say it

Approximate pronunciation. Vowels sound as in Spanish (a as in father, e as in bed, i as in machine, o as in note, u as in rule); the syllable in bold is stressed. The voice is your device's.

Its senses in the Bible

1. To put on jewelry to look fine.
2. To pass through a place, to go beyond it.
3. To take off one's clothes, above all those that warm.

From Brown-Driver-Briggs (1906)

How it is translated

The words this translation uses for it, most frequent first.

• Adorn yourself ×3
• I adorned you ×1
• One who takes off ×1
• adorned herself ×1
• adorned yourself ×1
• adorns herself ×1
• passed ×1
• you were adorned ×1

Related words

Words of the same family, by Strong’s numbering.

Where it appears

• Job×2
• Proverbs×1
• Isaiah×1
• Jeremiah×2
• Ezekiel×3
• Hosea×1

• Job 28:8

  the sons of pride have not trodden it, nor has the fierce lion passed over it.

• Job 40:10

  Adorn yourself, please, with grandeur and height, and with splendor and majesty clothe yourself.

• Proverbs 25:20

  One who takes off a garment on a day of cold, vinegar on natron, and one who sings songs to a troubled heart.

• Isaiah 61:10

  I will greatly rejoice in YHWH; my soul will exult in my Elohim, for he has clothed me with garments of salvation; with the robe of righteousness he has wrapped me, as a bridegroom puts on the headdress like a priest, and as a bride adorns herself with her jewels.

• Jeremiah 4:30

  And you, devastated one, what will you do? Though you dress in scarlet, though you adorn yourself with ornaments of gold, though you enlarge your eyes with antimony, in vain you make yourself beautiful. The lovers despise you; they seek your soul.

• Jeremiah 31:4

  Again I will build you, and you will be built, virgin of Israel; again you will adorn yourself with your tambourines, and go out in the dance of those who make merry.

• Ezekiel 16:11

  And I adorned you with ornaments, and put bracelets on your hands and a necklace on your neck.

• Ezekiel 16:13

  And you were adorned with gold and silver, and your clothing was fine linen and silk and embroidered cloth; fine flour and honey and oil you ate; and you became beautiful exceedingly, and you prospered to royalty.

• Ezekiel 23:40

  And even they sent for men coming from far away, to whom a messenger was sent; and look, they came, for whom you bathed, painted your eyes, and adorned yourself with ornaments,

• Hosea 2:13

  And I will call her to account for the days of the Baals, to which she burned incense to them, and adorned herself with her ring and her jewelry, and went after her lovers, and me she forgot, declares YHWH.