hadas · myrtle

What it means

hadas (הֲדַס) is a Hebrew word of the Bible that means “myrtle”.

A shrub with small, evergreen, fragrant leaves.

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. An evergreen, fragrant shrub.

From Brown-Driver-Briggs (1906)

How it is translated

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

• myrtle ×3
• myrtles ×3

Related words

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

Where it appears

• Nehemiah×1
• Isaiah×2
• Zechariah×3

• Nehemiah 8:15

  and that they should make it heard and pass a proclamation through all their cities and in Jerusalem, saying, “Go out to the hills and bring branches of olive, and branches of oil tree, and branches of myrtle, and branches of palm, and branches of leafy trees, to make booths, as it is written.”

• Isaiah 41:19

  I will put in the wilderness the cedar, the acacia, and the myrtle, and the oil tree; I will set in the Arabah the cypress, the elm, and the box tree together,

• Isaiah 55:13

  Instead of the thornbush will come up the cypress, and instead of the nettle will come up the myrtle; and it will be for YHWH as a name, as an eternal sign that will not be cut off.”

• Zechariah 1:8

  I saw in the night, and look, a man riding on a red horse, and he was standing among the myrtles that were in the hollow; and behind him were horses, red, sorrel, and white.

• Zechariah 1:10

  And the man who was standing among the myrtles answered and said, “These are those whom YHWH has sent to go about through the earth.”

• Zechariah 1:11

  And they answered the angel of YHWH who was standing among the myrtles and said, “We have gone about through the earth, and look, all the earth is at rest and quiet.”