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אוֹדוֹת

odot · cause

Hebrew word · Strong’s number H182 · appears 11 times in the Bible

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What it means

odot (אוֹדוֹת) is a Hebrew word of the Bible that means “cause”.

Reason: "because of".

How to say it

o·dot

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. What makes something happen; almost always in the phrase "because of".

From Brown-Driver-Briggs (1906)

How it is translated

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

  • about ×4
  • account of ×2
  • because ×2
  • No reason ×1
  • reasons ×1
  • sake ×1

Where it appears

  • Genesis 21:11

    The matter was greatly displeasing in the eyes of Abraham on account of his son.

  • Genesis 21:25

    But Abraham reproached Abimelech about a well of water that the servants of Abimelech had seized.

  • Genesis 26:32

    On that day Isaac’s servants came and told him about the well that they had dug, and said to him, “We have found water.”

  • Exodus 18:8

    Moses told his father-in-law all that YHWH had done to Pharaoh and to the Egyptians for the sake of Israel, all the hardship that had come upon them on the way, and how YHWH had delivered them.

  • Numbers 12:1

    And Miriam and Aaron spoke against Moses on account of the Cushite woman whom he had taken, for he had taken a Cushite woman.

  • Numbers 13:24

    That place was called the Valley of Eshcol, because of the cluster that the sons of Israel cut from there.

  • Joshua 14:6

    Then the sons of Judah approached Joshua in Gilgal, and Caleb son of Jephunneh the Kenizzite said to him, “You know the word that YHWH spoke to Moses the man of Elohim about me and about you in Kadesh-barnea.

  • Judges 6:7

    When the sons of Israel cried out to YHWH because of Midian,

  • 2 Samuel 13:16

    She said to him, “No reason! This evil of sending me away is greater than the other that you have done to me.” But he was not willing to listen to her.

  • Jeremiah 3:8

    And I saw that for all the reasons that apostate Israel had committed adultery, I had sent her away and given her her certificate of divorce; yet treacherous Judah, her sister, did not fear, but she went and prostituted herself too, she herself.

And 1 more times.