עַד
ʻad · ad
{as far (or long, or much) as, whether of space (even unto) or time (during, while, until) or degree (equally with)}
Lexicon
Derivation: (Aramaic) corresponding to H5704 (עַד)
{as far (or long, or much) as, whether of space (even unto) or time (during, while, until) or degree (equally with)}
Definition from Strong's Exhaustive Concordance (1890). Wording is Strong's own, including his etymological notes, which are not separate meanings.
KJV renderings: [idiom] and, at, for, (hither-) to, on till, (un-) to, until, within.
Letters
- עAyin70
Picture: an eye
- Concrete
- eye · spring of water
- Extended
- to see · to know · experience · to watch
- דDalet4
Picture: tent door hanging down
- Concrete
- door · curtain · entrance
- Extended
- a way in or out · moving back and forth · a path · hanging
Possible cultural reading (auto-composed)
to see and know › the doorway, the way in
To see and know of the doorway, the way in.
Interpretive, not lexical. The dictionary sense of עַד 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
35 occurrences · 35 OT · 0 NT · 12 distinct forms
KJV renderings of this word, by how often each one is used.
- till8 · 25%
- until3 · 9%
- for3 · 9%
- unto2 · 6%
- to2 · 6%
- even until1 · 3%
- on1 · 3%
- me, till1 · 3%
- and ever1 · 3%
- but at1 · 3%
- thee, till1 · 3%
- thee, until1 · 3%
- within1 · 3%
- had the mastery1 · 3%
- shall be even unto1 · 3%
- even till1 · 3%
- even for1 · 3%
- it unto1 · 3%
- hitherto1 · 3%
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.