nadar · vow

What it means

nadar (נָדַר) is a Hebrew word of the Bible that means “vow”.

Make a vow: promise something to God.

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 promise something to God.

From Brown-Driver-Briggs (1906)

How it is translated

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

• vowed ×9
• made ×6
• vows ×6
• you vow ×5
• vow ×3
• vowing ×1
• you make ×1

Where it appears

• Genesis×2
• Leviticus×1
• Numbers×7
• Deuteronomy×5
• Judges×2
• 1 Samuel×1
• 2 Samuel×2
• Psalms×2
• Ecclesiastes×4
• Isaiah×1
• Jeremiah×1
• Jonah×2
• Malachi×1

• Genesis 28:20

  Jacob made a vow, saying, “If Elohim is with me and keeps me on this way that I am going, and gives me bread to eat and clothing to wear,

• Genesis 31:13

  I am El of Bethel, where you anointed a standing stone, where you made to me a vow. Now get up, leave this land and return to the land of your kindred.’”

• Leviticus 27:8

  But if he is too poor for the valuation, he shall set him before the priest, and the priest shall value him; according to what the hand of the one who vowed can afford, the priest shall value him.

• Numbers 6:2

  “Speak to the sons of Israel and say to them: When a man or a woman makes a special vow, the vow of a Nazirite, to separate himself to YHWH,

• Numbers 6:21

  This is the instruction for the Nazirite who vows his offering to YHWH for his consecration, besides what his hand can afford; according to his vow that he vows, so he shall do, according to the instruction for his consecration.”

• Numbers 21:2

  And Israel vowed a vow to YHWH and said, “If you will indeed give this people into my hand, then I will devote to destruction their cities.”

• Numbers 30:2

  When a man vows a vow to YHWH or swears an oath to bind an obligation on his soul, he shall not profane his word; according to all that comes out of his mouth he shall do.

• Numbers 30:3

  And when a woman vows a vow to YHWH and binds an obligation on herself in the house of her father in her youth,

• Numbers 30:10

  And if in the house of her husband she vowed or bound an obligation on her soul with an oath,

• Deuteronomy 12:11

  Then to the place that YHWH your Elohim chooses to make his name dwell there, there you shall bring all that I am commanding you: your burnt offerings and your sacrifices, your tithes and the contribution of your hand, and all the choicest of your vows that you vow to YHWH.

• Deuteronomy 12:17

  You may not eat within your gates the tithe of your grain or of your new wine or of your oil, or the firstborn of your herd or of your flock, or any of your vows that you vow, or your freewill offerings, or the contribution of your hand;

• Deuteronomy 23:21

  When you make a vow to YHWH your Elohim, you shall not delay to pay it, for YHWH your Elohim will surely require it of you, and it will be sin in you.

• Deuteronomy 23:22

  But if you refrain from vowing, it will not be sin in you.

• Deuteronomy 23:23

  What goes out of your lips you shall keep and do, just as you have vowed to YHWH your Elohim a freewill offering that you have spoken with your mouth.

• Judges 11:30

  Jephthah made a vow to YHWH and said, “If you will indeed give the sons of Ammon into my hand,

• Judges 11:39

  At the end of two months she returned to her father, and he did with her his vow that he had vowed; and she had not known a man. And it became a statute in Israel:

• 1 Samuel 1:11

  And she made a vow and said, “YHWH Tsevaot, if you will indeed look on the affliction of your servant and remember me and not forget your servant and give your servant offspring of men, then I will give him to YHWH all the days of his life, and a razor shall not come up on his head.”

• 2 Samuel 15:7

  At the end of forty years Absalom said to the king, “Please let me go and pay my vow that I vowed to YHWH, in Hebron.

• 2 Samuel 15:8

  For your servant made a vow while I was living at Geshur in Aram, saying, ‘If YHWH will indeed bring me back to Jerusalem, then I will serve YHWH.’”

• Psalms 76:11

  Make vows and fulfill them to YHWH your Elohim; let all who surround him bring tribute to the Fearsome One.

• Psalms 132:2

  who swore to YHWH, vowed to the Mighty One of Jacob:

• Ecclesiastes 5:4

  When you vow a vow to Elohim, do not delay to fulfill it, for he has no delight in the senseless; what you vow, fulfill.

• Ecclesiastes 5:5

  Better that you do not vow than that you vow and do not fulfill.

• Isaiah 19:21

  And YHWH will make himself known to Egypt, and the Egyptians will know YHWH on that day; and they will serve with sacrifice and offering, and they will vow a vow to YHWH and fulfill it.

• Jeremiah 44:25

  Thus says YHWH Tsevaot, the Elohim of Israel, saying: You and your wives have spoken with your mouth, and with your hands have fulfilled it, saying, ‘We will certainly perform our vows that we have vowed, to burn incense to the queen of the heavens and to pour out libations to her.’ By all means confirm your vows, and by all means perform your vows!

• Jonah 1:16

  Then the men feared YHWH with great fear, and they offered a sacrifice to YHWH and made vows.

• Jonah 2:9

  But I, with the voice of thanksgiving, will sacrifice to you; what I have vowed I will pay. Salvation belongs to YHWH.”

• Malachi 1:14

  And cursed be the deceiver who has in his flock a male, and vows and sacrifices to Adonai something damaged; for a great King I am, says YHWH Tsevaot, and my name is fearsome among the nations.

And 3 more times.