GREEK · G6135
Ἄδαρ
Adar — Adar
Adar, 6th month of the civil calendar, 12 month of the religious calendar
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Adar
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Original Hebrew / Aramaic / Greek connected to this term
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HEBREW / ARAMAIC · H143
אֲדָר
a.dar — Adar
Adar = "glorious" twelfth month, corresponding to modern March-April Also named: a.dar (אֲדָר "Adar" H0144)
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אֲדָר
a.dar — Adar
Aramaic of a.dar (אֲדָר "Adar" H0143) § Adar = "glorious" twelfth month, corresponding to modern March or April
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Large, the sixth month of the civil and the twelfth of the ecclesiastical year of the Jews (Esther 3:7, 13; 8:12; 9:1, 15, 17, 19, 21). It included the days extending from the new moon of our March to the new moon of April. The name was first used after the Captivity. When the season was backward, and the lambs not yet of a paschal size, or the barley not forward enough for abib, then a month called Veadar, i.e., a second Adar, was intercalated.
Scripture references
Source: Easton’s Bible Dictionary (1897). Historical dictionary wording reflects the scholarship and language of its era.
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Esther 3:7
In the first month, that [is], the month Nisan, in the twelfth year of king Ahasuerus, they cast Pur, that [is], the lot, before Haman from day to day, and from month to month, [to] the twelfth [month], that [is], the month Adar.
Esther 3:13
And the letters were sent by posts into all the king’s provinces, to destroy, to kill, and to cause to perish, all Jews, both young and old, little children and women, in one day, [even] upon the thirteenth [day] of the twelfth month, which [is] the month Adar, and [to take] the spoil of them for a prey.
Joshua 15:3
And it went out to the south side to Maalehacrabbim, and passed along to Zin, and ascended up on the south side unto Kadeshbarnea, and passed along to Hezron, and went up to Adar, and fetched a compass to Karkaa: