adir · mighty

What it means

adir (אַדִּיר) is a Hebrew word of the Bible that means “mighty”.

Majestic; of waters, rushing.

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. Great and strong, awe-inspiring.
2. The important men of a people, those of highest rank.

From Brown-Driver-Briggs (1906)

How it is translated

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

• nobles ×13
• magnificent ×8
• noble ×3
• mighty ×2
• majestic ×1

Related words

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

Where it appears

• Exodus×1
• Judges×2
• 1 Samuel×1
• 2 Chronicles×1
• Nehemiah×2
• Psalms×7
• Isaiah×3
• Jeremiah×5
• Ezekiel×2
• Nahum×2
• Zechariah×1

• Exodus 15:10

  You blew with your wind; the sea covered them; they sank like lead in the mighty waters.

• Judges 5:13

  Then the survivor went down toward the nobles; the people of YHWH went down for me against the mighty men.

• Judges 5:25

  Water he asked, milk she gave; in a bowl of nobles she presented curds.

• 1 Samuel 4:8

  Woe to us! Who will deliver us from the hand of these mighty gods? These are the gods who struck Egypt with every kind of blow in the wilderness.

• 2 Chronicles 23:20

  He took the commanders of hundreds, and the nobles, and those who governed among the people, and all the people of the land, and brought down the king from the house of YHWH; and they came through the Upper Gate to the house of the king, and they seated the king on the throne of the kingdom.

• Nehemiah 3:5

  And next to them the Tekoites repaired; but their nobles did not put their neck to the service of their lords.

• Nehemiah 10:29

  were adhering to their brothers, their nobles, and entering into an imprecation and into an oath to walk in the law of Elohim, which was given by the hand of Moses the servant of Elohim, and to keep and do all the commandments of YHWH our Lord, and his rules and his statutes;

• Psalms 8:1

  For the director. On the Gitit. A psalm of David. YHWH, our Lord, how magnificent is your name in all the earth, you who have set your splendor above the heavens.

• Psalms 8:9

  YHWH, our Lord, how magnificent is your name in all the earth.

• Psalms 16:3

  As for the holy ones who are in the land, they and the nobles, all my pleasure is in them.

• Psalms 76:4

  Radiant are you, magnificent, more than the mountains of prey.

• Psalms 93:4

  More than the voices of many waters, more than the magnificent breakers of the sea, magnificent on high is YHWH.

• Psalms 136:18

  and killed majestic kings, for his loyal love is forever.

• Isaiah 10:34

  And the thickets of the forest will be cut down with iron, and Lebanon will fall by a magnificent one.

• Isaiah 33:21

  But there YHWH will be magnificent for us, a place of rivers, of canals broad on every side; no galley with oars will go on it, and no magnificent ship will pass over it.

• Jeremiah 14:3

  And their nobles send their little ones for water; they come to the pools, they do not find water; they return, their vessels empty; they are ashamed and humiliated, and they cover their heads.

• Jeremiah 25:34

  Wail, you shepherds, and cry out, and roll in the dust, you nobles of the flock, for your days for slaughter are fulfilled, and for your scatterings, and you will fall like a precious vessel.

• Jeremiah 25:35

  And flight will perish from the shepherds, and escape from the nobles of the flock.

• Jeremiah 25:36

  The sound of the cry of the shepherds, and the wail of the nobles of the flock! For YHWH is devastating their pasture,

• Jeremiah 30:21

  And his noble one will be from himself, and his ruler will go out from his midst; and I will bring him near, and he will approach me; for who is this who pledges his heart to approach me? declares YHWH.

• Ezekiel 17:23

  On the mountain height of Israel I will plant it, and it will bear branches and produce fruit, and become a noble cedar; and under it will dwell every bird of every wing; in the shade of its branches they will dwell.

• Ezekiel 32:18

  “Son of man, bewail the multitude of Egypt, and bring it down, her and the daughters of noble nations, to the land of the depths, with those who go down to the pit.

• Nahum 2:5

  He remembers his nobles; they stumble in their march; they hurry to her wall, and the covering shield is set up.

• Nahum 3:18

  Your shepherds slumber, king of Assyria; your nobles rest; your people are scattered on the mountains, and there is no one to assemble them.

• Zechariah 11:2

  Wail, cypress, for the cedar has fallen, because the nobles have been devastated. Wail, oaks of Bashan, for the impenetrable forest has come down.

And 2 more times.