אָדַר

adar · be glorious

Hebrew word · Strong’s number H142 · appears 3 times in the Bible

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What it means

adar (אָדַר) is a Hebrew word of the Bible that means “be glorious”.

Be majestic, glorious.

How to say it

a·dar

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 be great and splendid; to give splendor to something.

From Brown-Driver-Briggs (1906)

How it is translated

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

  • majestic ×2
  • make it glorious ×1

Related words

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

Where it appears

  • Exodus 15:6

    Your right hand, YHWH, is majestic in power; your right hand, YHWH, shatters the enemy.

  • Exodus 15:11

    Who is like you among the gods, YHWH? Who is like you, majestic in holiness, awesome in praises, doing wonders?

  • Isaiah 42:21

    YHWH was pleased, for the sake of his righteousness, to magnify the instruction and make it glorious.