atar · place

What it means

atar (אֲתַר) is an Aramaic word of the Bible that means “place”.

Site (Aramaic).

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. The spot where something is or was.
2. What comes next, after something.

From Brown-Driver-Briggs (1906)

How it is translated

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

• place ×3
• After this ×2
• site ×2
• after you ×1

Related words

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

Where it appears

• Ezra×4
• Daniel×4

• Ezra 5:15

  And he said to him, “These utensils: take them, go, deposit them in the temple that is in Jerusalem, and let the house of Elah be built on its site.”

• Ezra 6:3

  In the first year of Cyrus the king, Cyrus the king gave an order: Concerning the house of Elah in Jerusalem, let the house be built, the place where they sacrifice sacrifices, and let its foundations be firmly laid; its height, sixty cubits; its width, sixty cubits;

• Ezra 6:5

  And also the utensils of the house of Elah, of gold and of silver, which Nebuchadnezzar brought out from the temple that was in Jerusalem and brought to Babylon, let them be returned and go to the temple that is in Jerusalem, to its place; and you shall deposit them in the house of Elah.”

• Ezra 6:7

  Leave the work of that house of Elah alone; let the governor of the Jews and the elders of the Jews build that house of Elah on its site.

• Daniel 2:35

  Then were crushed all together the iron, the clay, the bronze, the silver, and the gold, and they became like the chaff of the threshing floors of summer; and the wind carried them away, and no place was found for them. And the stone that struck the image became a great mountain and filled all the earth.

• Daniel 2:39

  And after you will arise another kingdom lower than you, and another third kingdom of bronze, which will rule over all the earth.

• Daniel 7:6

  After this I was looking, and look, another, like a leopard, and it had four wings of a bird on its back; and the beast had four heads, and dominion was given to it.

• Daniel 7:7

  After this I was looking in the visions of the night, and look, a fourth beast, terrifying and dreadful and exceedingly strong; and it had great teeth of iron; it devoured and crushed, and the rest it trampled with its feet; and it was different from all the beasts that were before it, and it had ten horns.