קָדַר
qâdar · kaw-dar'
to be ashy, i.e. darkcolored; by implication, to mourn (in sackcloth or sordid garments)
Lexicon
Derivation: a primitive root;
to be ashy, i.e. darkcolored; by implication, to mourn (in sackcloth or sordid garments)
- to be ashy, i.e. darkcolored
- by implication, to mourn (in sackcloth or sordid garments)
Definition from Strong's Exhaustive Concordance (1890). Wording is Strong's own, including his etymological notes, which are not separate meanings.
KJV renderings: be black(-ish), be (make) dark(-en), [idiom] heavily, (cause to) mourn.
Letters
- קQof100
Picture: the back of the head, or the sun on the horizon
- Concrete
- back of the head · rising sun · circle
- Extended
- what is behind · the last · a cycle · to come around again
- 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)
what comes behind, the returning cycle › the doorway, the way in › the head, the highest
What comes behind, the returning cycle of the doorway, the way in of the head, the highest.
Interpretive, not lexical. The dictionary sense of קָדַר 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
17 occurrences · 17 OT · 0 NT · 14 distinct forms
KJV renderings of this word, by how often each one is used.
- mourning2 · 11%
- i mourning2 · 11%
- shall be dark2 · 11%
- was black1 · 6%
- that those which mourn1 · 6%
- which are blackish1 · 6%
- heavily1 · 6%
- be black1 · 6%
- i am black1 · 6%
- they are black1 · 6%
- to mourn1 · 6%
- and make1 · 6%
- thereof dark1 · 6%
- will i make dark1 · 6%
- shall be darkened1 · 6%
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.