עָדָה
ʻâdâh · aw-daw'
to advance, i.e. pass on or continue; causatively, to remove; specifically, to bedeck (i.e. bring an ornament upon)
Lexicon
Derivation: a primitive root;
to advance, i.e. pass on or continue; causatively, to remove; specifically, to bedeck (i.e. bring an ornament upon)
- to advance, i.e. pass on or continue
- causatively, to remove
- specifically, to bedeck (i.e. bring an ornament upon)
Definition from Strong's Exhaustive Concordance (1890). Wording is Strong's own, including his etymological notes, which are not separate meanings.
KJV renderings: adorn, deck (self), pass by, take away.
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
- הHe5
Picture: a person with both arms raised
- Concrete
- a man calling out · a window · breath
- Extended
- behold! · revelation · to reveal · the (definite article)
Possible cultural reading (auto-composed)
to see and know › the doorway, the way in › to reveal, behold
To see and know of the doorway, the way in that works to reveal, behold.
Interpretive, not lexical. The dictionary sense of עָדָה 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
10 occurrences · 10 OT · 0 NT · 10 distinct forms
KJV renderings of this word, by how often each one is used.
- passed1 · 10%
- deck1 · 10%
- as he that taketh away1 · 10%
- adorneth1 · 10%
- though thou deckest1 · 10%
- thou shalt again be adorned1 · 10%
- i decked1 · 10%
- thus wast thou decked1 · 10%
- and deckedst1 · 10%
- to them, and she decked1 · 10%
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.