kadar · grow dark; mourn

What it means

kadar (קָדַר) is a Hebrew word of the Bible that means “grow dark; mourn”.

Grow dark, turn black; said of the sky that becomes overcast, and also of one who goes about in mourning, dressed in dark clothes.

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. For the sky, sun or moon to lose their light.
2. To go about in grief, wearing sackcloth.

From Brown-Driver-Briggs (1906)

How it is translated

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

• mourning ×7
• grow dark ×4
• darken ×2
• grew dark ×1
• they mourn darkly ×1
• those who mourn ×1
• which are dark ×1

Related words

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

Where it appears

• 1 Kings×1
• Job×3
• Psalms×4
• Jeremiah×3
• Ezekiel×3
• Joel×2
• Micah×1

• 1 Kings 18:45

  And it happened, in the meantime, that the heavens grew dark with clouds and wind, and there was a great rain. Ahab rode in his chariot and went to Jezreel.

• Job 5:11

  setting the lowly on high, and those who mourn are lifted to salvation;

• Job 6:16

  which are dark because of the ice; in them the snow hides itself.

• Job 30:28

  In mourning I go about without sun; I stand up in the assembly and cry for help.

• Psalms 35:14

  As for a companion, as for a brother of mine I went about; as one who weeps for a mother, in mourning I bowed low.

• Psalms 38:6

  I am twisted, bowed down greatly; all the day in mourning I go about.

• Psalms 42:9

  I will say to El my crag, “Why have you forgotten me? Why do I go about in mourning because of the oppression of the enemy?”

• Psalms 43:2

  For you are the Elohim of my stronghold; why have you rejected me? Why do I go about in mourning because of the oppression of the enemy?

• Jeremiah 4:28

  For this the earth will mourn, and the heavens above will grow dark, because I have spoken, I have purposed, and I have not relented, and I will not turn back from it.”

• Jeremiah 8:21

  For the breaking of the daughter of my people I am broken; I go about in mourning; horror has seized me.

• Jeremiah 14:2

  Judah mourns, and her gates languish; they mourn darkly to the ground, and the cry of Jerusalem goes up.

• Ezekiel 31:15

  Thus says Adonai YHWH: ‘On the day it went down to Sheol I caused mourning; I covered the deep over it, and I held back its streams, and the many waters were restrained; and I put Lebanon in mourning for it, and all the trees of the field fainted for it.

• Ezekiel 32:7

  And when I extinguish you I will cover the heavens and darken their stars; the sun with a cloud I will cover, and the moon will not make its light shine.

• Ezekiel 32:8

  All the luminaries of light in the heavens I will darken over you, and I will put darkness on your land, declares Adonai YHWH.

• Joel 2:10

  Before it the earth quakes, the heavens shake; sun and moon grow dark, and the stars withdraw their brightness.

• Joel 3:15

  Sun and moon grow dark, and the stars withdraw their brightness.

• Micah 3:6

  “Therefore it will be night for you, without vision, and it will be dark for you, without divination; and the sun will go down on the prophets, and the day will grow dark over them.