Aramaic word · H144

אֲדָר

'adar

Adar

A Biblical Aramaic word, from the parts of the Old Testament written in Aramaic. Why Aramaic?

Appears once in the Aramaic of the Old Testament.

What it means

Aramaic of a.dar (אֲדָר "Adar" H0143)

§ Adar = "glorious"

twelfth month, corresponding to modern March or April

Abridged from Brown, Driver and Briggs, A Hebrew and English Lexicon of the Old Testament (1906), via STEPBible.org (CC BY 4.0).

Where it appears

Ezra · 1

  1. Ezra 6:15 אֲדָ֑ר Adar

    And this temple was completed on the third day of the month of Adar, in the sixth year of the reign of King Darius.

    Here: Adar is the twelfth and last month of the year (late February to March). The name is Babylonian (Addaru). Jews took over the Babylonian month names during and after the exile, so the name itself marks a post-exilic, Persian-era setting.

Word data: STEPBible.org (CC BY 4.0), main text only.