אֶדֶן
ʼeden · eh'-den
a basis (of a building, a column, etc.)
Lexicon
Derivation: from the same as H113 (אָדוֹן) (in the sense of strength);
a basis (of a building, a column, etc.)
Definition from Strong's Exhaustive Concordance (1890). Wording is Strong's own, including his etymological notes, which are not separate meanings.
KJV renderings: foundation, socket.
Letters
- אAlef1
Picture: ox head
- Concrete
- ox · bull · cattle
- Extended
- strength · leader · first · the one in front
- דDalet4
Picture: tent door hanging down
- Concrete
- door · curtain · entrance
- Extended
- a way in or out · moving back and forth · a path · hanging
- נNun50
Picture: a sprouting seed, or a fish in water
- Concrete
- seed · sprout · fish · offspring
- Extended
- life · continuation · heir · to perpetuate
Possible cultural reading (auto-composed)
strength, the leader › the doorway, the way in › the seed, life continuing
Strength, the leader of the doorway, the way in of the seed, life continuing.
Interpretive, not lexical. The dictionary sense of אֶדֶן above is the attested meaning; this pictographic reading is a tradition about how the sign-shapes may have been heard. Both can be held at once, they are answering different questions.
Usage
57 occurrences · 57 OT · 0 NT · 28 distinct forms
KJV renderings of this word, by how often each one is used.
- sockets26 · 46%
- and their sockets16 · 28%
- and the sockets4 · 7%
- and his sockets3 · 5%
- the sockets2 · 4%
- for a socket1 · 2%
- his sockets1 · 2%
- thereof, and the sockets1 · 2%
- thereof, and sockets1 · 2%
- whereupon are the foundations1 · 2%
- upon sockets1 · 2%
Where it is used, by book.
Inflected forms found in the text.
Counts are computed from the tagged Hebrew and Greek text aligned to the King James Version, not from an estimate.