נָדַר
nâdar · naw-dar'
to promise (pos., to do or give something to God)
Lexicon
Derivation: a primitive root;
to promise (pos., to do or give something to God)
Definition from Strong's Exhaustive Concordance (1890). Wording is Strong's own, including his etymological notes, which are not separate meanings.
KJV renderings: (make a) vow.
Letters
- נNun50
Picture: a sprouting seed, or a fish in water
- Concrete
- seed · sprout · fish · offspring
- Extended
- life · continuation · heir · to perpetuate
- דDalet4
Picture: tent door hanging down
- Concrete
- door · curtain · entrance
- Extended
- a way in or out · moving back and forth · a path · hanging
- רResh200
Picture: a human head
- Concrete
- head · face · person
- Extended
- first · top · beginning · chief · the highest
Possible cultural reading (auto-composed)
the seed, life continuing › the doorway, the way in › the head, the highest
The seed, life continuing of the doorway, the way in of the head, the highest.
Interpretive, not lexical. The dictionary sense of נָדַר 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
31 occurrences · 31 OT · 0 NT · 29 distinct forms
KJV renderings of this word, by how often each one is used.
- vowed4 · 14%
- vow2 · 7%
- and where thou vowedst1 · 3%
- that vowed1 · 3%
- themselves to vow1 · 3%
- who hath vowed1 · 3%
- which he vowed1 · 3%
- also vow1 · 3%
- and if she vowed1 · 3%
- which ye vow1 · 3%
- which thou vowest1 · 3%
- when thou shalt vow1 · 3%
- to vow1 · 3%
- according as thou hast vowed1 · 3%
- which he had vowed1 · 3%
- and she vowed1 · 3%
- which i have vowed1 · 3%
- and vowed1 · 3%
- when thou vowest1 · 3%
- that which thou hast vowed1 · 3%
- is it that thou shouldest not vow1 · 3%
- than that thou shouldest vow1 · 3%
- yea, they shall vow1 · 3%
- that we have vowed1 · 3%
- and made1 · 3%
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.