aderet · cloak; glory

What it means

aderet (אַדֶּרֶת) is a Hebrew word of the Bible that means “cloak; glory”.

Wide cloak, mantle; also splendor, majesty.

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. The large outer garment, sometimes of hair, like the prophets' cloak.
2. Something magnificent, glorious.

From Brown-Driver-Briggs (1906)

How it is translated

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

• cloak ×8
• glorious ×1
• mantle ×1
• robe ×1
• splendor ×1

Related words

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

Where it appears

• Genesis×1
• Joshua×2
• 1 Kings×2
• 2 Kings×3
• Ezekiel×1
• Jonah×1
• Zechariah×2

• Genesis 25:25

  The first came out reddish, all of him like a cloak of hair, and they called his name Esau.

• Joshua 7:21

  I saw among the spoil one fine cloak from Shinar, and two hundred shekels of silver, and one tongue of gold whose weight was fifty shekels; and I coveted them and took them. And look, they are hidden in the ground inside my tent, with the silver under it.”

• Joshua 7:24

  Then Joshua took Achan son of Zerah, and the silver, the cloak, the tongue of gold, his sons and his daughters, his ox, his donkey, his flock, his tent, and all that he had, and all Israel was with him; and they brought them up to the Valley of Achor.

• 1 Kings 19:13

  And it happened, when Elijah heard it, that he wrapped his face in his cloak, and went out and stood at the entrance of the cave. And there, a voice came to him, and said, “What are you doing here, Elijah?”

• 1 Kings 19:19

  He went from there and found Elisha son of Shaphat, who was plowing, twelve yoke of oxen were before him, and he was with the twelfth. Elijah passed over to him and threw his cloak on him.

• 2 Kings 2:8

  Elijah took his cloak, rolled it up, and struck the water, and it was divided to one side and to the other, and the two of them crossed over on dry ground.

• 2 Kings 2:13

  He picked up the cloak of Elijah that had fallen from him, and went back and stood on the bank of the Jordan.

• 2 Kings 2:14

  He took the cloak of Elijah that had fallen from him, and struck the water and said, “Where is YHWH, the Elohim of Elijah?” He too struck the water, and it was divided to one side and to the other, and Elisha crossed over.

• Ezekiel 17:8

  In a good field, beside many waters, it was planted, to produce branches and to bear fruit, to become a glorious vine.’

• Jonah 3:6

  And the word reached the king of Nineveh, and he rose from his throne, took off his robe from himself, covered himself with sackcloth, and sat on the ashes.

• Zechariah 11:3

  The sound of the wailing of the shepherds, for their splendor has been devastated; the sound of the roaring of young lions, for the thicket of the Jordan has been devastated.

• Zechariah 13:4

  And it will happen on that day that the prophets will be ashamed, each of his vision when he prophesies; and they will not put on a mantle of hair in order to lie.