עֵדֶר
ʻêder · ay'-der
an arrangement, i.e. muster (of animals)
Lexicon
Derivation: from H5737 (עֲדַר);
an arrangement, i.e. muster (of animals)
Definition from Strong's Exhaustive Concordance (1890). Wording is Strong's own, including his etymological notes, which are not separate meanings.
KJV renderings: drove, flock, herd.
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
- רResh200
Picture: a human head
- Concrete
- head · face · person
- Extended
- first · top · beginning · chief · the highest
Possible cultural reading (auto-composed)
to see and know › the doorway, the way in › the head, the highest
To see and know of the doorway, the way in of the head, the highest.
Interpretive, not lexical. The dictionary sense of עֵדֶר 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
38 occurrences · 38 OT · 0 NT · 30 distinct forms
KJV renderings of this word, by how often each one is used.
- his flock3 · 10%
- flocks2 · 7%
- drove2 · 7%
- is as a flock2 · 7%
- the flocks1 · 3%
- and thither were all the flocks1 · 3%
- until all the flocks1 · 3%
- his own flocks1 · 3%
- every drove1 · 3%
- the droves1 · 3%
- of the flocks1 · 3%
- out of the flock1 · 3%
- for flocks1 · 3%
- like a flock1 · 3%
- to thy herds1 · 3%
- by the flocks1 · 3%
- are like a flock1 · 3%
- are as a flock1 · 3%
- they shall be for flocks1 · 3%
- of flocks1 · 3%
- with their flocks1 · 3%
- flock1 · 3%
- where is the flock1 · 3%
- doth his flock1 · 3%
- with flocks1 · 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.