עֲדַף
ʻădaph · aw-daf'
to be (causatively, have) redundant
Lexicon
Derivation: a primitive root;
to be (causatively, have) redundant
Definition from Strong's Exhaustive Concordance (1890). Wording is Strong's own, including his etymological notes, which are not separate meanings.
KJV renderings: be more, odd number, be (have) over (and above), overplus, remain.
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
- פPe80
Picture: an open mouth
- Concrete
- mouth · lips · teeth
- Extended
- to speak · a word · an edge or opening · to scatter speech
Possible cultural reading (auto-composed)
to see and know › the doorway, the way in › to speak, the word
To see and know of the doorway, the way in that works to speak, the word.
Interpretive, not lexical. The dictionary sense of עֲדַף 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
9 occurrences · 9 OT · 0 NT · 8 distinct forms
KJV renderings of this word, by how often each one is used.
- that remaineth2 · 22%
- had nothing over1 · 11%
- remaineth over1 · 11%
- on the other side of that which remaineth1 · 11%
- the overplus1 · 11%
- which are more1 · 11%
- wherewith the odd number1 · 11%
- of them that were over1 · 11%
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.