atar · surround, crown

What it means

atar (עָטַר) is a Hebrew word of the Bible that means “surround, crown”.

Surround, encircle (to attack or to protect); also crown.

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 encircle, to attack or protect.
2. To set a crown on someone to honor him, or to surround him with good things like a crown.

From Brown-Driver-Briggs (1906)

How it is translated

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

• crowned him ×2
• You have crowned ×1
• one who crowned ×1
• were surrounding ×1
• who crowns you ×1
• you surround him ×1

Related words

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

Where it appears

• 1 Samuel×1
• Psalms×4
• Song of Songs×1
• Isaiah×1

• 1 Samuel 23:26

  Saul went on one side of the mountain, and David and his men on the other side of the mountain. David was hurrying to get away from Saul, while Saul and his men were surrounding David and his men to capture them.

• Psalms 5:12

  For you bless the righteous, YHWH; as with a large shield with favor you surround him.

• Psalms 8:5

  You made him a little lower than Elohim, and with glory and majesty you crowned him.

• Psalms 65:11

  You have crowned the year of your goodness, and your tracks drip richness.

• Psalms 103:4

  who redeems from the pit your life, who crowns you with loyal love and compassion,

• Song of Songs 3:11

  Go out and look, daughters of Zion, at King Solomon with the crown with which his mother crowned him on the day of his wedding and on the day of the joy of his heart.

• Isaiah 23:8

  Who has planned this against Tyre, the one who crowned, whose merchants were princes, whose traders were the honored of the earth?