Hebrew word · H6283

עֲתֶ֫רֶת

'ateret

abundance

It occurs only here, so its meaning is uncertain.

Appears once in the Hebrew Old Testament.

What it means

abundance, excess, copiousness

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

Range of meaning: It occurs only here, so its meaning is uncertain. The main proposals are: (1) 'abundance, wealth', compared with Aramaic and Syriac ʿ-t-r 'be rich', and with Ezekiel 35:13, where a related verb may mean 'multiply'; (2) 'entreaty, prayer', from Hebrew ʿātar 'to pray', which is the Vulgate's reading; (3) a scribal change from ʾōṣĕrôt 'treasures', which is a modern suggested correction with no manuscript behind it.
Against the English: KJV, BSB, WEB, YLT and NASB have 'abundance of'. NIV and ESV also go with 'abundant/abundance'. No major modern English version follows the Vulgate's 'entreaty'.
Used elsewhere in the period: BDB and HALOT both give 'abundance' (HALOT marks it uncertain). The Vulgate has deprecationem, 'supplication'. The Septuagint (Jer 40:6) does not clearly render the word.

Jeremiah · 1

Jeremiah 33:6 עֲתֶ֥רֶת an abundance of

Nevertheless, I will bring to it health and healing, and I will heal its people and reveal to them the abundance of peace and truth.

Here: This word appears only here in the Bible. It is most often explained from an Aramaic root meaning 'be rich', so 'a wealth of' or 'an abundance of'. The Latin Vulgate read it as 'entreaty'. See debates.

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