eda · community

What it means

eda (עֵדָה) is a Hebrew word of the Bible that means “community”.

The whole people of Israel gathered as one body; also any gathered group or band.

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. Israel gathered as one people; or a band of people.
2. A group of bees living together in a hive.

From Brown-Driver-Briggs (1906)

Word study

Community: the people gathered as one body; in particular, Israel in the wilderness. BDB: a stated assemblage, specifically a concourse, or generally a family or crowd. Once, a swarm of bees.

• “All the community of Israel” Exodus 12:3Leviticus 19:2
• The community that complains in the wilderness Numbers 14:1Numbers 20:8
• “The community of the righteous” Psalms 1:5
• “Elohim stands in the community of El” Psalms 82:1
• A swarm of bees Judges 14:8

How we translate it

“Community” 146 times, “company” 2, “swarm” 1. This edition's glossary sets the pair עֵדָה / קָהָל = “community / assembly”; the other word, קָהָל (H6951), is always “assembly”.

How it is translated

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

• community ×146
• company ×2
• swarm ×1

Related words

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

Where it appears

• Exodus×15
• Leviticus×12
• Numbers×83
• Joshua×15
• Judges×5
• 1 Kings×2
• 2 Chronicles×1
• Job×2
• Psalms×10
• Proverbs×1
• Jeremiah×2
• Hosea×1

• Exodus 12:3

  Speak to all the community of Israel, saying, ‘On the tenth day of this month they shall take for themselves, each man, a lamb for each father’s house, a lamb for each household.

• Exodus 12:6

  You shall keep it until the fourteenth day of this month, and the whole assembly of the community of Israel shall slaughter it at twilight.

• Exodus 12:19

  For seven days no leaven shall be found in your houses; for whoever eats anything leavened, that person shall be cut off from the community of Israel, whether a resident alien or a native of the land.

• Exodus 12:47

  All the community of Israel shall keep it.

• Exodus 16:1

  They set out from Elim, and all the community of the sons of Israel came to the wilderness of Sin, which is between Elim and Sinai, on the fifteenth day of the second month after their departure from the land of Egypt.

• Exodus 16:2

  And all the community of the sons of Israel grumbled against Moses and against Aaron in the wilderness.

• Exodus 16:9

  Moses said to Aaron, “Say to all the community of the sons of Israel, ‘Come near before YHWH, for he has heard your grumblings.’ ”

• Exodus 16:10

  As Aaron spoke to all the community of the sons of Israel, they turned toward the wilderness, and look, the glory of YHWH appeared in the cloud.

• Exodus 16:22

  And on the sixth day they gathered twice as much bread, two omers for each one; and all the chiefs of the community came and told Moses.

• Exodus 17:1

  All the community of the sons of Israel set out from the wilderness of Sin, by their stages, according to the command of YHWH, and camped at Rephidim; but there was no water for the people to drink.

• Exodus 34:31

  But Moses called to them, and Aaron and all the chiefs in the community returned to him, and Moses spoke to them.

• Exodus 35:1

  And Moses assembled all the community of the sons of Israel and said to them, “These are the things that YHWH has commanded to do:

• Exodus 35:4

  And Moses said to all the community of the sons of Israel, saying, “This is the thing that YHWH has commanded, saying,

• Exodus 35:20

  And all the community of the sons of Israel went out from the presence of Moses.

• Exodus 38:25

  And the silver of those counted of the community was a hundred talents and a thousand seven hundred and seventy-five shekels, by the shekel of the sanctuary:

• Leviticus 4:13

  And if the whole community of Israel errs and the matter is hidden from the eyes of the assembly, and they do any one of all the commandments of YHWH concerning things that should not be done, and they become guilty,

• Leviticus 4:15

  The elders of the community shall lay their hands on the head of the bull before YHWH, and one shall slaughter the bull before YHWH.

• Leviticus 8:3

  and assemble all the community at the entrance of the tent of meeting.”

• Leviticus 8:4

  Moses did as YHWH had commanded him, and the community assembled at the entrance of the tent of meeting.

• Leviticus 8:5

  Moses said to the community, “This is the thing that YHWH has commanded to be done.”

• Leviticus 9:5

  They brought what Moses had commanded before the tent of meeting, and all the community drew near and stood before YHWH.

• Leviticus 10:6

  Moses said to Aaron and to Eleazar and to Ithamar, his sons, “Do not let the hair of your heads hang loose and do not tear your garments, so that you do not die and he does not become angry with all the community; but your brothers, all the house of Israel, shall weep over the burning that YHWH has kindled.

• Leviticus 10:17

  “Why did you not eat the sin offering in the holy place? For it is a most holy thing, and he has given it to you to bear the iniquity of the community, to make expiation for them before YHWH.

• Leviticus 16:5

  And from the community of the sons of Israel he shall take two male goats for a sin offering and one ram for a burnt offering.

• Leviticus 19:2

  “Speak to all the community of the sons of Israel and say to them: You shall be holy, for I, YHWH your Elohim, am holy.

• Leviticus 24:14

  “Bring the one who cursed outside the camp, and let all who heard lay their hands on his head, and let all the community stone him.

• Leviticus 24:16

  And whoever blasphemes the name of YHWH shall surely be put to death; all the community shall surely stone him; the resident alien as well as the native, when he blasphemes the Name, shall be put to death.

• Numbers 1:2

  “Take a census of the whole community of the sons of Israel by their families, by their fathers’ houses, according to the number of names, every male, head by head.

• Numbers 1:16

  These were the ones called from the community, the chiefs of the tribes of their fathers; they were the heads of the thousands of Israel.

• Numbers 1:18

  and they assembled the whole community on the first day of the second month, and they declared their descent by their families, by their fathers’ houses, according to the number of names, from twenty years old and upward, head by head,

• Numbers 1:53

  But the Levites shall camp around the dwelling of the testimony, so that there may be no wrath on the community of the sons of Israel; and the Levites shall keep the charge of the dwelling of the testimony.”

• Numbers 3:7

  They shall keep his charge and the charge of the whole community before the tent of meeting, doing the service of the dwelling.

• Numbers 4:34

  So Moses and Aaron and the chiefs of the community counted the sons of the Kohathites by their families and by their fathers’ houses,

• Numbers 8:9

  And you shall bring the Levites before the tent of meeting, and assemble the whole community of the sons of Israel.

• Numbers 8:20

  And Moses and Aaron and the whole community of the sons of Israel did to the Levites according to all that YHWH had commanded Moses concerning the Levites; so the sons of Israel did to them.

• Numbers 10:2

  “Make for yourself two trumpets of silver; of hammered work you shall make them; and they shall be for you for summoning the community and for setting out the camps.

• Numbers 10:3

  And when they blow them, the whole community shall gather to you at the entrance of the tent of meeting.

• Numbers 13:26

  And they went and came to Moses and to Aaron and to all the community of the sons of Israel in the wilderness of Paran, at Kadesh; and they brought back word to them and to all the community, and showed them the fruit of the land.

• Numbers 14:1

  Then all the community lifted up and raised their voice, and the people wept that night.

• Numbers 14:2

  And all the sons of Israel grumbled against Moses and against Aaron, and the whole community said to them, “If only we had died in the land of Egypt! Or in this wilderness, if only we had died!

And 109 more times.