adar · be lacking; arrange; hoe

What it means

adar (עֲדַר) is a Hebrew word of the Bible that means “be lacking; arrange; hoe”.

Be lacking, be missed (in a count); elsewhere, to set in order or to hoe a vineyard.

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 be absent: let no one be left out.
2. To hoe the vineyard.
3. To line up for battle.

From Brown-Driver-Briggs (1906)

How it is translated

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

• missing ×4
• hoed ×2
• lacking ×2
• fail ×1
• form ranks ×1

Related words

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

Where it appears

• 1 Samuel×1
• 2 Samuel×1
• 1 Kings×1
• 1 Chronicles×1
• Isaiah×5
• Zephaniah×1

• 1 Samuel 30:19

  Nothing of theirs was missing, from the small to the great, to sons and daughters, and from the spoil to all that they had taken for themselves; David brought back everything.

• 2 Samuel 17:22

  David got up, and all the people who were with him, and they crossed the Jordan; by the light of morning not even one was missing who had not crossed the Jordan.

• 1 Kings 4:27

  And those prefects sustained King Solomon and all who came near to the table of King Solomon, each in his month; they let nothing be lacking.

• 1 Chronicles 12:33

  of Zebulun, those going out to the army, ready for war with all the weapons of war, fifty thousand, and to form ranks without duplicity of heart;

• Isaiah 5:6

  And I will make it a waste; it will not be pruned or hoed, and briers and thorns will come up; and the clouds I will command not to rain rain on it.

• Isaiah 7:25

  And all the mountains that used to be hoed with the hoe, you will not go there for fear of briers and thorns; and it will become a place for letting loose oxen and for trampling by sheep.

• Isaiah 34:16

  Seek from the book of YHWH and read: not one of these is missing; none lacks its mate; for my mouth, it has commanded, and his spirit, he has gathered them.

• Isaiah 40:26

  Lift up on high your eyes and see: who created these? He who brings out by number their army, calls them all by name; by the greatness of his vigor, and being mighty in strength, not one is missing.

• Isaiah 59:15

  And truth is lacking, and whoever turns from evil is plundered. And YHWH saw and it was evil in his eyes that there was no justice.

• Zephaniah 3:5

  YHWH is righteous in her midst; he does not do injustice; morning by morning he brings his justice to the light; he does not fail; but the unjust does not know shame.