עֵדָה
ʻêdâh · ay-daw'
a stated assemblage (specifically, a concourse, or generally, a family or crowd)
Lexicon
Derivation: feminine of H5707 (עֵד) in the original sense of fixture;
a stated assemblage (specifically, a concourse, or generally, a family or crowd)
Definition from Strong's Exhaustive Concordance (1890). Wording is Strong's own, including his etymological notes, which are not separate meanings.
KJV renderings: assembly, company, congregation, multitude, people, swarm. Compare H5713 (עֵדָה).
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 עֵדָה 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
149 occurrences · 149 OT · 0 NT · 48 distinct forms
KJV renderings of this word, by how often each one is used.
- of the congregation19 · 19%
- and all the congregation12 · 12%
- all the congregation9 · 9%
- the congregation7 · 7%
- unto all the congregation6 · 6%
- and the congregation5 · 5%
- and the whole congregation4 · 4%
- unto the congregation4 · 4%
- for the congregation4 · 4%
- in the congregation4 · 4%
- of all the congregation4 · 4%
- this congregation2 · 2%
- congregation2 · 2%
- even the whole congregation2 · 2%
- the company2 · 2%
- in the company2 · 2%
- of the assembly2 · 2%
- and let all the congregation1 · 1%
- come upon all the people1 · 1%
- him; and the assembly1 · 1%
- thou all the congregation1 · 1%
- and if the whole congregation1 · 1%
- unto the whole congregation1 · 1%
- from the congregation1 · 1%
- ye unto all the congregation1 · 1%
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.